Not sure how many of you know about the applications that you can add on Facebook. There are a lot of sports applications for you favorite teams. Each team for each sport has their own.

With each application there is a discussion area and a links area.

I've only done about 50 teams so far (out of a ton) and I post a catchy title for a topic and provide a link in the post. Then submit a link in the link directory. I've only had this done from yesterday for around 50 teams right now. Already in Google Analytics, I've had 350 referrals from it in 2 days.

I've had only a few signups but that's cool. They will come with time as long as people know about it.

I'll report weekly on the stats for those that are interested. Right now it seems the hottest are the college football team applications (because the season is on right now most likely). The only downfall is you can't see exactly which team is referring people except by looking at the map overlay which doesn't give you conclusive results because anyone can add the applications.

I'm not too worried about competition on the sports sites as there's tons out there and mine is a different type of niche than most. (Plus I'm about to put $2,000 into marketing)

I just thought this would be good information for those that don't have a lot of money to market as the discussion topics won't get deleted and neither will the links. For those that have state specific forums, add every team in that state and post a lot leaving a link in your posts. It's free and easy.

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Very interesting...I've noticed the interest lately in facebook apps. A lot of people are figuring out some good ways to use them to generate traffic.

It's a new concept, though, and people are still figuring out ways to use this (like yourself), so I like hearing about other uses for it

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I think it's nice that the direct links have picked up as well. It's nice to know some direct links are occurring.

FYI... I've set up google to exclude my IP.

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Interesting idea! I am glad it's working for ya. What do you spend in time a day on it?

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So far I've spent less than 30 mins a day doing it. I like to go stir up trouble and make a post specifically on my site about a topic and link to that topic that is hot for that team as well. I'm up to around 300 referrals now.

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It's been almost a week and nearing 400 Uniques from this. My returning visitors % has increased which means some of these people are coming back. I haven't been on Facebook at all in the past 48 hours posting items and have over 100 hits which means some people are just now seeing the older posts I've made (which is good).

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Cool, that's a good update

Links that stick are always nice (links that you create now but continue to generate hits for weeks or even months)

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These apps also have a video section. I haven't even finished adding a topic and link submission to all the teams yet. Once I finish with that, I'll have to go back and upload my commercial/video as well.

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