Hello experts, I have my own blog and i created a fan page for it on Facebook. Now, I want to get more fans for it, So can I announce for it by a google adword's campaign although I don't of course own the domain www.facebook.com ??? P.s: For reasons I can't go on with facebook ads
This is an interesting idea. The only problems I can see are quality score and trademarking. I assume (I've not tried) that Facebook have trademarked their brand on Adwords, meaning that you might not be able to mention that it is a Facebook fanpage in the Adtext and I doubt that getting an exception from Facebook would be an easy process. Secondly, your quality score will probably be pretty low, meaning that CPC's will be high. This is because the landing page is only customisable to a point. Things such as Page title and meta description are locked and the meta description talks about the Facebook platform. If you also look at the source code of a fanpage it is littered with scripts and functions which will do your QS no favours. You might be able to get it firing if you used FBML to alter the frontpage of the fanpage but again, I've no experience with how Adwords might deal with FBML. In closing I'm not sure if this would be possible to make a campaign like this optimal for Adwords but if you have budget you could experiment. What is it about the Facebook ads that you don't like?
well i dont think the credit will be on the fb and not on your page. why not personalize you fan page so thats it looks more attractive. pm me for details and for page sample.
@ markdb_sem Thank you for your answer, you have completed the vision. I once met an ad leading to facebook page, and you are right that ad was showing FBML as a landing page, I thought i could do the same but i wanted to show the my page wall as a landing page. oh, I was about to forget, that ad leading to FB page was using an image ad not text ad. Now I should try to use FBML as a landing page and i may come back here to tell you what happened. So now, does it make a different if I used text ad rather than image ad ?? ----------------------- @ lordbugz, Thank you for your reply
You don't need to own a domain in order to advertise with Adwords. Affiliate marketers do it all the time. There is a rule that might affect you. It's the shared domain rule. Don't know if this affects Facebook however but my guess is it does. It affects sites like blogspot.com if I recall correctly. Basically, you cannot use blogspot.com as the display URL in your ad, you must also show the sub-domain such as myblog.blogspot.com. Just try it and see. If Adwords objects, simply correct your mistake.