Thursday, March 25, 2010

How to add a Facebook Badge to your Web Site or Blog




You've seen the links on everyone's pages: "Follow me on Facebook" they say. But how do you put one of those fancy badges on YOUR site? How can you attract fans to YOUR Facebook fan page?

Here's how:

1. Log in to your Facebook account
. Once you're logged in, you'll be on your Facebook home page

2. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. You'll see a list of links in the bottom right. Click on Advertising

3. Click on Pages, near the top of the page (it has a flag next to it.

4. Toward the right hand side you'll see a button that says "Create a page." Click on "Manage your existing pages," right below that button.

5. Now, you'll either see a list of the pages you manage or, if you only have one page, you'll be taken directly to it. If you see a list of pages, click on the page for which you want to create a badge.

6. At the bottom of the column that's to the left of the Facebook ads, click on "Get your badge."

7. Edit your badge to customize its appearance. You can choose to display any combination of your name, picture, fans and recent updates. You can also change its layout and orientation - horizontal or vertical. Save your changes.

8. It will ask you where you want to place your badge. If it's for your blog, simply follow the instructions to insert it on your blog. If you want it for your web site, select other, and then copy and paste the HTML code that it gives you. You can then insert this code directly into your web site's code, or hand it off to your web developer who will do it for you.


Happy badging!




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I'm a professional copywriter and marketing strategist based in the Comox Valley, on beautiful Vancouver Island. A graduate with distinction of Concordia University’s School of Journalism in Montreal, I've been writing professionally for more than a decade. I relocated to the Comox Valley in 2002 and continued to work as a freelance writer and copywriter before becoming Marketing Coordinator for Comox Valley Tourism. In June 2008, I took my talent as a professional copywriter to the next level with the establishment of Ryan Parton Writing Solutions. Since then I've helped many small businesses, corporations and organizations perfect their marketing materials and business communications and obtain the exposure they deserve. I'm a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada and the Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce. I still write for a variety of Canadian newspapers and magazines and am a regular contributor to In Focus Magazine. I live in the Comox Valley with my wife Sarah and my son Spencer.