How To Add A Facebook Fanbox or Badge To Your Website
ByDo you have a Facebook Fan or Business page and want to get the word out that it’s there so more people will find you? Maybe you want to promote someone else’s fan page on your website or blog.
Facebook has made it so easy with code to copy and paste into your website or blog.
First, you’ll need to be an administrator of the Fan Page you want to promote. So log in and look on the left for editing options and you’ll see the ‘Add Fan Box to your site’.
Click on Fan Box and it’ll take you to the next page where you’ll select either to add a Fan Box or a Fan Badge to your site.
You’ll see choices of Blogger, TypePad or ‘Other’, so choose the appropriate one and then you’ll be taken to another page where you’ll either sign into Blogger or TypePad, or you’ll be taken to the ‘Other’ page where you’ll see a box with instructions. Just put your cursor in the box and it automatically will select all the text. Click Ctrl+ C to copy and then you’ll need to paste it into your website or blogsite.
If you have a hosted WordPress account (you have wordpress in your url), this won’t work for you. I found it only works in the self-hosted wordpress.
Since I don’t have a Business Page, I tried this with the Technology Innovations Fan Page I administer and it worked great. I added a text widget and pasted the code in it, added a heading and it was finished. I did have to tweak the width settings a bit as the default of 300 was a bit too wide for my current theme. I set the width to 200 and it fit. When you paste the code in, you’ll see it says ‘width=300’, just change the number if you need to. The length will automatically adjust for you. If you prefer a Facebook badge, follow the same instructions except for selecting the badge part.
The code can be added to a traditional website as well. Here’s a short video by Rich Brooks that explains the process for you.
Try implementing this simple, but powerful marketing tool from Facebook.
Very interesting! Thanks for the read. -Tom
Very interesting! Thanks for the read. -Tom
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I’m having trouble with this. I’ve tried several times to add the Facebook badge to my wordpress blog. But when I click on the badge it takes me to an error message on Facebook rather than the fan page. Any suggestions?
Hello,
I looked at your url and since you have the hosted wordpress blog, you aren’t able to put a badge on your page. Hosted means that WordPress is keeping your posts, etc. on THEIR server. If you had a NON-hosted WordPress, you would pay for hosting somewhere, like Hostgator.
What you can do is put a widget on your site. I know that words for the hosted WordPress because I’ve done it for a client. Here is a link to networked blogs on facebook with the code you’ll need along with instructions. http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/promotepage.php?blogid=2853&type=simple
Hope this works for you. If the link isn’t working, just go to Facebook and go to the networked blogs section and look for the networkedblogs widget.
Lynn
I’m the admin, why I don’t see the ‘Add Fan Box to your site’ option?
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I love Google Voice. There SMS feature actually got me into it. I can send free text messages to Bangladesh, India, and USA. It saves me good money on my texting plan from Verizon Wireless because I can use that to send now. I think Google always does a wonderful job of giving customers what they require and need. I have found in the future they are incorporating Voice with the Android. Plus they purchased a new VoIP company which they will incorporate with the other two to give some outstanding features. I need to get myself an Androind now haha.