Facebook blocked in Firefox for suspicious phishing ?
This is a post Chris Lang and I talked about in the Google Social Marketing Group. You can read the original post here.
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The following domain is now listed as a phishing site by Google chrome and Firefox. http://fbcdn.net

UPDATE:Just in, TechCrunch just reported that Safari is now listing Facebook as a suspicious site too. You can read their article in the trackback in comments where they linked to this artilce. (Cheers! Robin Wauters, thanks for the link…)

This is actually a Facebook domain. By adding this domain to your list of trusted sites in Internet Explorer you will no longer have problems with Facebook. Currently Internet Explorer is not listing it as a phishing site in it’s database. Could this be because Microsoft has $260,000,000 invested in Facebook?

Basically the only way to use Facebook is to use Internet Explorer because they do not seem to be blocking it right now.

I am trying to get to the bottom of the Phishing RBL now, I am already taking this up with Trend Micro to make sure this does not spread. Trend Micro blocking my site made me quite an authority on Phishing filters and URL RBLs.

Currently the phishing filter used by Firefox does not list fbdcn.net as a phishing site and neither does Internet Explorer anti Phishing filter. Don’t know where this blocking is coming from but I want to know as someone who cannot wait to implement Facebook Connect.

After a Google search here is why Facebook runs JavaScript on another domain:

There are a few reasons; one of the posts added the additional domain lookup, but that only needs to happen once. What happens instead, is that a browser has a built in limit of 2 connections per domain. This means that if you have a lot of external content (CSS style sheets, Javascript, images, etc) you’re limited to load two at any given time. By adding an extra domain, you double that amount of items you can be downloading concurrently. There were some various experiments done, and it was found that 2-3 was generally the best you could squeeze out.

The link to the information about CDNs was provided — companies like Akamai have servers placed strategically around the world and use some DNS voodoo to have localized requests directed to their servers nearest to the request. This means that you can download the data faster.

Another reason is about bandwidth. Facebook (and all sorts of other sites where you have to login) track all sorts of information about you in cookies. Every request you make to a site, all of those cookies get passed around. This can add up very quickly. By having a domain that isn’t just a subdomain (ie, x.facebook.com) like fbcdn.net, each request isn’t burdened with the additional cookies and thus minimizes the bandwidth required on the request (you transmit less, so it’s faster; they receive less so it’s faster and cheaper [since they pay for all that in and out bandwidth])

I’m sure there could be even more reasons, but those are the main ones AFAIK.

This puts a real damper of the launch of Facebook Connect.

I will keep updating this post as news breaks on this. Either the Facebook domain fbcdn.net was hacked or this is something odd, I have not seen this occur before.

UPDATE:Facebook says the blocking has been cleared in the Facebook Forum. This is the same place I tried to warn Facebook that this was a possibility. The other developers said:

“This is some pretty tinfoil hat sounding stuff.”

I happen to like the way my monitor reflects off my tin foil hat, what’s it to ya?

End post.

Just goes to show even the big boys make mistakes. I don’t use these anti-phishing softwares. Do you? Are you still seeing FB as a phishing site?

Make money with your facebook account

It is very possible to make money with your Facebook account. In internet terms, monetization is the process where you make something profitable. You can monetize websites, blogs, and even social networking profiles on sites like Facebook.
Some social networking sites do not allow you to do monetization practices on it, such as post ads. The owners and developers of Facebook understand that there are people out there who want to make money on facebook, so they allow some monetization activities to take place.

3 things you should do before you start monetizing your profile

1.) First, make sure you’re familiar with the terms of use. This will prevent you from doing something while monetizing that is against site policy.

2.) Another important thing to do is make sure that you are very familiar with the site and how different users interact with each other.

3.) Observe what kinds of applications people like adding. See which groups are the most popular. Basically, spend enough time on the site to get a feel for what people expect when they visit a profile, join a group, or add an application. Since it is a social site, there are patterns that are bound to emerge.

Facebook Profit Secrets
Once you understand the different trends on facebook, you can think about how your facebook profile relates to these trends.

How do your brand and your business fit in with all of these things? More importantly, how does your content fit in with it? When you understand how your profile relates, you can better understand how to monetize it.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you’ll want to choose the monetization methods that best fit in with your particular target market. The more targeted the monetization, the more sales you’ll get. Not only that, but if you fail to build a strong community, your efforts to make money will largely be in vain.

SPECIFIC WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE
There are several different ways to monetize your efforts on the site that are considered acceptable. And since there are a lot of options, you can choose the ones that make sense for your niche and target market.

Here are some ideas on how to make your efforts on the site profitable.

Keep in mind that you don’t need to limit your activities to just one thing. You can choose a variety of methods.
However, you need to be careful about your actions. Even though you are essentially using the site to sell something, you need to do so in a way that is helpful and not at all like a salesperson. The service needs to have value for the market you’re targeting. For example, if you have a group devoted to people who have Rosacea, a few links to some of your favorite skincare products that have helped you will be relevant and helpful.

• You can sell your own product or service. This can be done through affiliate marketing, developing something with your Facebook customers in mind, or selling a product or a service that you already have ownership of.
• Put ads on the site for services such as Amazon.com. For example, if you have a group for writers, you can post an Amazon.com link for books that you think the group members will find helpful.
• Another thing you can do is provide your users with advertising. This is appealing to advertisers because they can target a specific demographic. This makes the ad highly targeted.

Facebook Profit Secrets
No matter which method you choose when it comes to monetizing, you need to be careful and make sure that the method of advertising has definite value to the reader. You want it to strike that balance between providing something that is useful and enhances the value to your site or putting flashy ads in people’s faces.
If you decide you are going to put ads that don’t really mean anything to your content or target market, people may get annoyed and it will diminish the overall quality of your community. This isn’t something that you want to do because the community really is the cornerstone of the success you have on the site.

The rest of the make money with facebook series

Part 1 leveraging Facebook’s awesome social network

Part 2 How to make money with facebook

Part 3 How to promote your product or an affiliate program with facebook

Part 4 How To use Face book to get your new blog or website indexed and crawled

Part 5 Use facebook to increase your rss feed

Part 6 make money on facebook and facebook profit secrets e-book give away.

Part 7 make money on facebook and facebook indexing in google

Part 8 How To Make Money With Your Facebook Account

Here’s a little handy tip from facebookpayday for those of you who who want to use facebook to make money.

I did a full review of facebook payday a while back and have been on peters list and I’ll say this that he does his homework and comes through with very interesting results.
This week it was revealed that Facebook has allowed Google to index more sections of its site:
- wall posts
- groups
- discussion topics

Over time this means that fresh, relevant, linked content will start showing up in Google, with links back into Facebook.

Have you started a facebook group yet for your business?

Tip: Make sure the name of the group is relevant to the main keyword you want to be indexed for.

I just did a couple searches this morning and confirmed I could find groups in Facebook that are *already* indexed in Google.

What does Google have in their Index

To see what Google has already indexed, that’s in Facebook, use the “site:” command.

For example, to see what Google has indexed for “real estate” that is in Facebook, type
site:http://www.facebook.com “real estate” into Google.

I was seeing groups for jewelry, real estate, and also some for “bachelor party”, so watch out for what you
post in Facebook - use it to get found … but not found out

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