Comments on: A Secret To Dramatically Increase Fans To Your Facebook Fan Page

By: Pooja Doshi

Pooja Doshi — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:16:00 +0000

I am a blogger. And increasing the number of fans and thus indirectly my readers has always stumped me. But this is amazing. Thanks for the wonderful suggestions.

Here’s my page: If you can add something more to it, it would be great!!

By: David Anders

David Anders — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:23:00 +0000

Thanks for providing everyone with information on how to get a Fanpage set up. It get’s confusing for a lot of people trying to figure out the difference between their wall and what a fanpage or landing page actually is. I have found two good tools socialpowertools.com which is a fanpage builder and a book at fanpage101.com that had a lot of resources and videos.

By: Robert D.

Robert D. — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:37:00 +0000

A great article, lots of insightful tips on increasing our Facebook fans. Till date I only thought of “Suggest to Friends” as the best promotion technique but I learned many more interesting methods today. Thanks for the informative post.

By: Caren Maher

Caren Maher — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:11:04 +0000

I have a FB account set up for myself with a profile page. After the fact I also created a fan page for my golf business. The problem is that when 'friend' of the golf fan page sends a 'friend request' we do not want users to land on the profile page but on the fan page instead. It would suit me if the profile page became 'invisible' to all but the admins. How can I do this? Thanks.

By: Dickson

Dickson — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:38:39 +0000

Hey Robert,
this is a great website! thanks!
but do you know the codes where
when a person likes your fanpage,
some words will appear?

For example,
Somone goes onto ur page, lands on the custom tab and clicks like.
Then there will be words like, thank you for becoming a fan.
something like that…

thanks!

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:28:53 +0000

Hi Robert,

I do not realy understand this part here…

html for image with alt tag (which I strongly recommend):
Keyword For Your Image

html for image with link & alt tag:
alt="Keyword For Your Image"

The (target="_blank") portion of the linked image means that when you click the image, it will open in a new window. Just remove that snippet of code if you don't want the image link to open in a new window.

I have a .jpg image in my folders and i wish to put into my custom tab.

Can you please explain to me?
Sorry and thanks.

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:38:38 +0000

In reply to Michael. Hi Michael - did you get my email response to your Fan Page issue?

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:13:54 +0000

In reply to Michael.

Hi Michael – I just became a fan of your page. Can you go ahead and make me "admin" so I can actually get into the welcome page?

I'm not able to decipher the code from the view source for some reason.

let me know, and thanks….

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:03:10 +0000

In reply to Robert Holland. Hi Robert, My fan page is called "Ask Your Money Man". I need to get this resolved before I send out a million requests to become a fan. You will see your code in the Welcome tab right now. Thanks in advance. Michael

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:50:10 +0000

There you go, done. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. You can email me direclty at my home email address at mbrewitt@rogers.com in future to make it easier. Thanks a lot. Michael

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:26:31 +0000

In reply to Michael.

Hi Michael – it sounds like one of two things are going on:

1) you may not have the images hosted properly, or you aren't grabbing the actual image URL and using that in your HTML code

2) You may be improperly structuring your HTML tags.

How about you send me the URL to your Facebook Fan Page so I can take a look at the code and see what's going on.

Alternatively, feel free to give me a call at 706-363-0335

Thanks

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:51:14 +0000

Hi Robert,

I have uploaded the FBML application, and followed the instructions, but when my web guy inputs the HTML code, nothing happens. I even found another one of your more recent blogs, and I input your personal welcome page image logo as you suggested to try it out, but I only see the words, or nothing at all. When I put it in the url bar, your welcome page image comes up. We are both confused. Can you offer any suggestions? Thanks, Michael

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:51:00 +0000

Hi Robert,

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:33:44 +0000

In reply to -Nx-.

Hi Nx – thanks for your question. Yes, you can change the default the landing tab for your Facebook Fan Page –

The link above will show you how to do it.

Thanks again, and let me know if that helped!

By: -Nx-

-Nx- — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:44:18 +0000

Hi,

How can you put the fan tab as default I mean when someone land on a fan page without clicking any tabs ?

Thank you for this useful tip !

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:07:44 +0000

In reply to Robert Holland.

I have pretty much the same question as Jethro: I have a FB account set up for our (television) show with a profile page. After the fact I also created a fan page with the same name. I think this is confusing the search index on FB or something. The problem is that when 'friends' of the show or a station member sends a 'friend request' we do not want users to land on the profile page but on the fan page instead. Can I place this custom tab on the profile page to redirect new fans to the fan page? I would suit me if the profile page became 'invisible' to all but the admins. – I would love to learn how to rectify this scenario…but was wondering if that's possible of finding outside of calling? THanks for all your helpful info, Robert! —

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:15:53 +0000

In reply to Guest.

Hi there – thanks so much for visiting Social Media SEO! And i'm glad you found our content valuable. Please let us know if you ever have questions or need help with your Facebook or social media marketing efforts!

As always, you can become a fan of Social Media SEO at

Thanks again…

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:15:03 +0000

Great, great, great information. Thanks.

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:02:14 +0000

@Denise Silva – Hi Denise – no problem at all. Let me know if I can help out in any other ways with your Facebook ventures! Also, it might help as well to become a fan of our Facebook Page at .

Thanks again for stopping by Denise!

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:20:13 +0000

In reply to Jethro.

Hi Jethro – We’ve figured out how to promote Facebook Fan Pages from Facebook Profiles. I’m sure our solution will work perfectly for you. Give me a call at 706-363-0335, and my name is Robert! Thanks again…

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:48:50 +0000

@Jethro – Hi Jethro – I got your question and I’ll respond to it by the end of the day. I’ve gotta run for now though! Talk to you shortly and thanks for adding your question

By: Jethro

Jethro — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:45:26 +0000

I have a FB account set up for our band with a profile page. After the fact I also created a fan page with the same name. I think this is confusing the search index on FB or something. The problem is that when ‘friend’ of the band or a band member sends a ‘friend request’ we do not want users to land on the profile page but on the fan page instead. Can I place this custom tab on the profile page to redirect new fans to the fan page? I would suit me if the profile page became ‘invisible’ to all but the admins.

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:58:00 +0000

@John K – Hi John – the FBML app takes most common HTML code. So you could simply add your .gif or .jpg (or any image) using the following the standard html for images.

here’s the html for a non-linked image:

html for image with alt tag (which I strongly recommend):

html for image with link & alt tag: alt=”Keyword For Your Image”

The (target=”_blank”) portion of the linked image means that when you click the image, it will open in a new window. Just remove that snippet of code if you don’t want the image link to open in a new window.

All of the above image html is compatible in the FBML box.

Does that answer your question?

Thanks again John…

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:58:00 +0000

@John K – Hi John – the FBML app takes most common HTML code. So you could simply add your .gif or .jpg (or any image) using the following the standard html for images.

here’s the html for a non-linked image:

html for image with alt tag (which I strongly recommend):

html for image with link & alt tag: alt=”Keyword For Your Image”

All of the above image html is compatible in the FBML box.

Does that answer your question?

Thanks again John…

By: John K

John K — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:59:27 +0000

Hi Robert, how do I insert a .gif or .jpg into the page I just created following your instructions? (Thanks for the post by the way, great job)

By: Denise Silva

Denise Silva — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:55:24 +0000

That's great! Thanks for helping me decode FB.

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:17:59 +0000

Hi Denise - the way you set your own landing tab for those who are not fans of your Facebook Fan Page is by going to your Fan Page settings (click edit under your fan page image) > click the pencil icon for "Wall Settings" > then under "default landing tab for everyone else" select the tab you wish to have non-fans land on.

The "everyone else" part is referencing non-fans. So which ever tab you chose here will be the one that non-fans land on.

Hope that helps...

By: Denise Silva

Denise Silva — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:38:16 +0000

Great article! But how do I make sure people how have not fanned me yet will land on my call-to-action tab? Tks!