What about trying to do affiliate marketing using a social networking platform called Facebook? I am about to have almost 200 friends on Facebook now, because I know this thing can make me money, through what? Promoting affiliate links? Of course I could promote, but in order to be safe, we must be aware that Facebook has banned lots of accounts for just promoting affiliate links and CPA (cost-per-action) offers.

Some of them are just joining groups base on their niche and to promote their products through posting their direct affiliate hoplink like Clickbank, Amazon, CPALead, etc., it's not going to work at all because Facebook is really smart at it when notified by their own system. Of course we can still make money on affiliate programs using Facebook, but how?

Here are some of my ideas:

1. When you attach a link, don't post your direct affiliate or CPA link to your friends' wall, groups or fan pages.

2. Create your own basic landing page using WordPress, Blogger, Weebly, Yola, etc., on whatever product you may promote. I suggest you include an image or banner of your product and attach a hyperlink which directs to your affiliate hoplink. Make sure that your content could be easily understood by the visitors.

3. Instead of direct affiliate or CPA links to be posted on Facebook, your landing page could be a good strategy on which your hyperlink was attached on the image of your post.

4. Create your own Facebook group and it should match to the niche of your product or offer, and invite targeted friends to join your group. If your offers are from targeted countries only, then you should invite only people who are within that targeted country.

5. Promote your landing pages on Twitter and social media sites, high traffic forums, social bookmarks or you can do some video marketing on Youtube or even create a simple eBook with your affiliate and CPA links and upload it to some free file sharing sites.

These are some of my own ideas and it can guarantee you success only if you are really smart to know what you're doing. This is where an affiliate marketer like me has to do simple but challenging things when it comes to affiliate marketing using Facebook as a huge source.