How To Create A Facebook Page For Your Blog

Facebook has quickly become THE social media site. If you aren’t on it, then you’re missing out. As a blogger, you can use this tool to not only make connections and stay in touch with other bloggers, but you can also use Facebook to promote your blog!

You may be thinking, “But isn’t my Twitter account enough?” No. With Facebook being more popular than Google as well as the number one ranked site in several countries, you need to take advantage of the 400 million users that are on the site. We will start with how to create the page itself to how to find more fans so you can promote, promote, promote!

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Step 1: Create A Facebook Page

If you don’t have an account yet, then get one. It’s quick and easy to create. Once you have your very own account, you can then find the “Ads and Pages” link on the sidebar of your Profile.

NOTE: A lot of users have found that this link seems to be mysteriously missing, but you can still access the “Ads and Pages” link from this URL: https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php.

Step 2: Select Your Page Type

It has fortunately offered a load of different pages types that you can choose from. Most bloggers will probably want to choose the “Brand, Products or Organization” option, and then scroll down to the very bottom of the drop down available to find “website”. From there, you will be able to give your website a new name. It’s always best to go with the name of your website so that users can quickly and easily associate it with your site.

After you are finished setting up the site, make sure that you tick the box that will authorize you as the representative for your own blog. Then all you have to do is click “Create Official Page.”

Step 3: Customize Your Page

So it may look a bit empty at first. You can easily start fixing it up to make your page more exciting. For an image, make sure that you add either your website’s logo, or a picture of yourself. Using a picture of yourself will make the page more personal, but if you want to brand your site more than brand yourself, use the logo.

You will also need to add a short little blurb about your blog. Make it short yet descriptive so that users will know exactly what they’ll be in for when they visit your blog.

Step 4: Using The FMBL App

Congrats! You should now have a fairly well set up Facebook page that is almost ready for fans. You will find that in the sidebar an “Edit” tab. Click this tab, and then scroll to the bottom of the page to find more applications. Click on “Browse More” and then choose the “Static FMBL” app.

TIP: You may need to conduct your own search for this application. You can easily do this by typing “Static FBML by Facebook” in the application search box.

Once you have obtained the app, then all you have to do at this point is click on the “Add to my Page” link at the upper left hand side. You may receive a popup too; make sure you select on the popup that you would like to add this app.

Step 5: Setting Up The FBML Application

Once you have added the FBML application to your Facebook page, make sure that you go back to your page. Once there, click on the “edit” tab and then scroll right on down until you find the “FBML Static” app. Click on the “Application Settings” and then swap the default settings so that you have removed the ‘box’ and then added the ‘Tab’. This will enable you to create a new tabbed page as your Facebook landing page.

Step 6: Adding The Coding For Your Facebook Landing Page

You can now start to fully customize your landing page. You may first want to change the box title. An easy box title you may want to have is “Welcome”, simply because this is the very first page that any visitor is going to see. You can then insert the code that you want to display. The coding can be as advanced or as basic as you see fit. You can start with having it be just one image that will redirect visitors to your blog or to an offer that you are making online.

Step 7: Set Up Your Landing Page

Click back over to the edit screen again. Find the “Wall settings” and then click on the “Edit” link. This will expand the box. From the second drop down menu you will now be able to find your brand new landing page by the name that you gave it (in this case, it would be “Welcome”). You can then change some permission settings, such as whether or not you will allow visitors to write on your wall, post links, post photos or post videos.

TIP: You may want to disallow anyone from posting links or photos or videos to external sources. This is your page, after all, so the focus should be on your blog and not on whatever the visitors are posting.

Step 8: Promoting Your Facebook Page

The best and easiest way to start promoting your page is to “like” your page and become a fan. This way it will be automatically added to all of your friends’ feeds, and you will definitely have a few fans by the end of the day.

Once you have done this, it’s time to hunt down some new fans. You will want to post about your new page on Facebook to bring awareness to it. You will want to add the link to your Twitter account. You can also find apps online that will help you find Facebook members who you can add as a “Friend” who may have an interest in your blog!