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Probably the most asked question after how to make an app for facebook, is how to make money from a facebook application. Since alot of developers may not be up to speed on what are the best methods on making money online, im going to give it a shot.

Of course there’s the best of the bunch Adsense, but i’m not really sure how the facebook framed pages fit in with the Adsense TOS, my gut instinct is no, but i would bet it would go on a case to case basis depending on the nature of the app.

Right now i think the best bet is probably going to be Chitika and their eminimall PPC ads. With a wide variety of canvas page size friendly banners and fully customizable colors they will fit in nicely in any application layout. And since you pick out which products (keywords) that the ads are on, you can accurately target the ads directly to what your visitors would want. Bringing you even more money than contextual advertising could. You have access thru the API to find out what your users interests and hobbies are, so you already have the data technically. For example say your application is the nascar top 5, with Chitika you can in addition to just general nascar ads, you could fill in the keywords with the drivers name and display ads on merch just for those drivers, or is the users hobby fishing? What’s their favorite movie? Band? All that info is available thru the standard FQL query that gives you the user’s name and id. The limits to what you can target is only how many if/else’s you want to code lol. I have also received permission to use the eminimalls on facebook from Chitika, though they did want to check out the applications first. You also get paid thru paypal on a net 30 basis(you get june’s check the end of july) after accruing just $10.00 in a month.

I’m going to list out a few more choices that includes both pay per action (PPA) which is where you are paid per action, like selling a product, or getting a user to submit a form. and pay per impression (cpm) which is where you are paid for each time a visitor views your page, and of course PPC which is where you are paid on a pay per click basis.

PPC - PPA - CPM

Adbrite PPC - CPM

Text Link Ads Sell text links by the month

shareasale.com PPA - PPC

Axill CPM - PPA

Amazon.com PPA

Commission Junction PPA

Burst Media CPM - PPC