The question is, can you really make money from Facebook fan pages?

The answer is quite simply yes, more and more people every day are making hundreds of dollars and this is the tip of the iceberg!

Facebook has rapidly overtaken Google in the search engines and in Google's own words, Facebook is their most feared competitor.

So where do you start? These days most people online have a Facebook profile, if you don't you need to get one! There are many avenues to make money, but the first one I would recommend is a Facebook fan page.

Facebook fan pages are basically like mini landing pages and represent your chosen product, business or organization. Best of all setting up a fan page is free and very easy to do.

Many people ask what should my fan page be about? Quite simply anything! You can browse through the list of most popular Facebook pages to give you a good idea.

Two research tools that will help you find hot topics:

1) Google insights.
2) Google Trends.

Use these tools to find the most popular searches and you could be generating a hot new page before anyone else does.

When you post on your fan page, this then appears in all your fans news feeds and your posts will spread like a wildfire. Quite simply because of this your pages will go viral and be indexed by Google. People often ask what is the difference between pages and groups, basically pages are indexed but groups aren't hence why your fan pages can grow very quickly.

So now you've got your page, but you need to get people to it. Firstly you need to invite your Facebook friends to join, once you're on your page, click on 'suggest to friends' this will give you a good basis to start with. If you post regularly to your page, the search engines will pick up on this and you will start getting additional traffic all for free!

Your fan page will spread fast because the more members you have and the more you post, the more it will appear in the news feed and spread like a wildfire.

How to make money:

1) Promote your own product or service.
2) Promote affiliate offers to your members.
3) Promote CPA (cost per action) offers.
4) Sell your page for a profit.
5) Set up Facebook pages for others.

There are many ways to profit from your Facebook fan pages, the sky's the limit. Obviously the more pages you have the more you will profit.

However, I would suggest you concentrate on adding value and content, keep your fans interested and this will pay off handsomely in the long run!