Apart from for Google, Facebook is the site with the biggest source of traffic on the web to day.   Facebook subscribers recently passed the 500 million mark. This means that there are half a billion people on facebook that could potentially make you profits. In this short article I am going to reveal my 5 top ways to make money with Facebook.

Posting status updates does its job well. Each time you update your status all of your people would see it. So if you had a website or an offer you want to generate traffic to, you just post a status update containing a link to your offer or website and lots of your friends will click on it. Just think how many people will be able to click on your links if you had a friends list of thousands. You are able to make a lot of money just doing this every few hours.

Making groups associated to your offer or product. Creating a group related to a product that you are promoting or your website could be a good way to make money online. Create a group, get loads of members and you have your own list of leads. You could possibly mass message them as often as you want. You can send messages promoting your products and your web sites. Build trust with your subscribers and give them quality content and they could make you some good extra money online.

Build viral fan pages for long term profits. Just like the groups, you can create a fanpage around a business idea or interest. After this you only need to get loads of fans for your page and then the sky is limit on how you want to make money with your page. This can also contain links to your products and websites, so you can build a lot of traffic this way. You can also insert html in your page, so you can have an opt in form or have people click to your website. There are also viral codes available to help with this.

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Have a go at facebook ads for lots of money fast. Facebook ads are almost like Google ads, but a lot better. You can pay facebook for displaying your ads. You can pay for every click or for impressions. You can easily target your ads in lots of different ways so conversions for this traffic is very high.

Earn money by “renting” out your friends or fans. There are websites online where you people will pay you to promote their pages or groups. This way you can make money just posting updates on your wall. If you have an account with lots of friends or a fan page with loads of fans, this could be a great way to earn with facebook.

As you can see there are loads of different ways to make money online with facebook. Big companies like Coca Cola and Nike are already making thousands of extra dollars each month just using Facebook for marketing. Anyone can make money on facebook. If you know what you are doing, you can start generating profits from today.