{As Facebook is an ever-changing entity, as of April 2010, some of the information in this blog post may be out-of-date. I’m working on updates. ~H}
A great way to promote your Facebook Business Page is to put a badge on your blog. The benefit to using the badge rather than just linking a picture to your Page is that the Badge will update itself with your status and number of fans, whereas a picture is static.
Go to your Business Page and click on the “Edit Page” link found underneath the profile picture. You need to be logged into Facebook in order to have access to the administrative features of your Page.
Now you will see a page with all sorts of fun options for your Page. Scroll down to the bottom right-hand corner and click on “Get Your Badge”.
The following window will pop-up. You may click on “Edit this badge” if you wish to change what type of info will be included on the badge and the order it will appear in. You can even change its orientation to horizontal.
Once you are satisfied with your badge, select the blog format you use, and you will be prompted automatically to add the badge to your page. If your chosen format isn’t listed, you can just copy & past the HTML and add it to your website manually.
That’s it! Now the badge will automatically update itself when you update your Page’s status, change your profile picture, or gain new fans.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!! i've been trying to figure out how to get a badge for my fan page forever. it's hidden down there in a random place at the bottom. dumb.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
ReplyDeleteNow wouldn't you know that with all the messing around I did on my Page last night while I was writing this tutorial, my Badge has gone horizontal and will not switch back! lol I am sure it is a bug; Facebook is just not saving the changes when I check "vertical" and click "Okay".
If you want your badge to be centered in the widget (like mine), open the widget's HTML, and add {center} to the very beginning of the code and {/center} to the very end of the code. Replace the "{ }" brackets with "< >" brackets.
ReplyDeleteI've been having the same issue with the facebook badge..I keep trying to make changes to my badge (don't want it showing status or number of fans, just my logo pic) but my changes won't save! So annoying!!! Hopefully it's just a temporary facebook bug..wish I knew how to contact someone at facebook to let them know but I think that's a lost cause.
ReplyDeleteLisa, the issue resolved itself for me the next day, so it was a temporary glitch. I did contact Facebook, but they took about a week to get back to me. If you can get a screen capture of the problem, do it, because they will ask you for one.
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