I'm thinking affs are going to be knee-capped by these FB shopping setups

[rcjordan]

Etsy lets you log in with your Facebook credentials, pick a friend, and see Etsy products for sale that match things that your friend likes, based on their profile information.

http://www.businessinsider.com/etsys-facebook-powered-shop-for-a-friend-gifts-site-is-awesome-2010-11

Bing's in there, too.
http://www.facebook.com/Bing?v=app_10467688569

[TallTroll]

Nah, the Law of Mediocrity will limit this. There's no granularity to "like", so it can't tell the difference between the band whose memorabilia you'd sell your kids to possess, and the stupid page you clicked on whilst drunk. People who really know you will know the difference, but oops, most people don't know most of their FB "friends".

So it only really works for people you know well enough in real life, who you probably buy presents for from Amazon and eBay anyway. Sure, etsy will take a chunk of that action, but it's not a revolution in anything

[Gurtie]

of course, if you're an affiliate who can write an app which interacts with several sites based on 'likes'......

[jangro]

>> affs are going to be knee-capped

The ones (not only affs) who will be knee-capped are those who cannot keep up.

It's always something.  Today it's facebook.

[Rumbas]

>It's always something.  Today it's facebook.

Well put Scott.

We've been thinking about developing an app that will enable FB users to suggest "cool" sites to each other - of course with our aff link imbedded into it. Haven't gotten around to do more than thinking tho.

[rcjordan]

I'll bet you lunch that this will eventually be 'specially-selected' merchants by FB.  So, yeah, if you as an aff have a couple of hundred grand to buy in, then you'll be allowed to sell them something.

[grnidone]

Has anyone done an experiment on what "like" will do for a site?  If anything?  Will the link from facebook from a "well-liked" site pull more weight than one that doesn't have a lot of likes?

[dogboy]

FYI the 'like button' is used in conjunction with different unseen meta tags... 'article', 'site', etc... so it's not that farfetched.

In fact, I was working with an art print site earlier this year on all this.

[dougs]

We have sites with thousands of likes and even have a few fb groups/fan pages that we can control that have 10000's of member. Sadly no idea if they work for seo but we do use them to add links in.

Doug