Facebook links

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Permalink Reply by David Robertson on March 17, 2010 at 1:57pm

You want to get 25 fans per page. If you do that then you will be able to create a custom URL for your fan page. A custom URL will make your FaceBook pages SEO friendly. For instance a fan page for a Honda dealership in Washington DC might be http://www.facebook.com/DC-Honda or /Washington-DC-Honda or /MD-Honda Once that is done, the facebook logo shouldn't be too hard to find (or create a custom image), put it on your page and have it linked to your fan page. The code to link a picture to a URL is very easy. Rinse, Wash, Repeat!

< a href="Your Url">< img src"Your Img URL" />< /a>

Delete the space before the a, the img, the /a and you have it!

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Permalink Reply by David Robertson on March 17, 2010 at 2:01pm

Oh but you'll probably want to add an alt tag in the code too. So < img src="Your Img URL" alt="DC Honda Facebook" /> in the same place the Img code was before and again without the space before the img.

From your friends at Pa Honda

P.S. I hope I earned the link with the response!

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Aten on March 17, 2010 at 2:45pm

Is anybody able to go to the link once it is established or do you have to be a Facebook member. I have a link that facebook sent me, but it requires the person to log in. I was told you could have a link so that anyone could get ity...is that true.

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Permalink Reply by David Johnson on March 17, 2010 at 3:32pm

Stephen, I think the link you are referring to is the link to your profile page. Once you log in with your user name and password you can then create a fan page. Once you create your fan page it will be given it's own link. David mentioned that you need 25 fans to create a vanity URL and you do that at http://facebook.com/username.

But, you wont need to get a vanity URL to link from your site, although you should, when you can, because of the reasons David gave you. After logging in go to this URL to set up your fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

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Permalink Reply by Mike Annable on March 23, 2010 at 2:54pm

Stephen, here are a few tips on some other things you can do yourself to beef up the fan page.

Remember, Facebook Pages are showing on internet searches, so it's important to get some keywords in their.

This blog will show you how to add a FBML tab with a clickable link, and some tips on mashing RSS feeds together to create great content to your fans:
http://www.showroomlogic.com/blog/how-to-add-vehicle-inventory-to-f...

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