How To Make a Fan Page on Facebook?
February 18, 2011Making a fan page on Facebook is extremely easy. It’s amazing that you can get a fully-functional and professional looking site up and running in seconds and for free.
Here’s how to go about it…
Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php (opens in a new window) or search on Google for “create a facebook page” and your first organic search result should be the correct link.
You’ll be presented with a choice from one of six categories for your fan page:
- Local business or place
- Company, organization or institution
- Brand or product
- Artist, band or public figure
- Entertainment
- Cause or topic
Most of the time you’ll be either using ‘Local business or place’ or ‘Cause or topic’.
Note: Selecting ‘Local business or place’ will allow you specify the ‘Default Landing Tab’ that your visitors see when they go to your Facebook fan page. By default this is set to Wall but you can change this to control what they do and see which is very handy. Community pages, for example, don’t give you this option.
Once you’ve specified the name of your fan page and clicked on the ‘Get Started’ button, your Facebook fan page is created for you.
On your new Facebook fan page you’ll be given six steps to help you get your new page active. These are found on the ‘Get started’ tab and they are:
- Add image
- Invite your friends
- Tell your fans
- Post status updates
- Promote this page on your website
- Set up your mobile phone
Note: the ‘Get started’ tab only appears to you and not to other Facebook users. This tab will automatically disappear in usually 48 or less.
When deciding on which image to add, make sure if best captures what your page is all about. If it’s about you, upload your picture, if it’s about a topic, e.g. golf, then upload a nice golfing image (istockphoto.com have excellent images or you can go to sxc.hu for free stock images).
You don’t want to do steps 2, 3 and 5 right away because there is nothing of interest on there yet and you’ll waste whatever traffic you send. First, you need to add an image and some good content and then promote your page.
Go to your ‘Info’ tab and fill in all the relevant fields. This is very important in helping people find you and the sites you’re promoting.
Next, upload relevant photos to your Facebook fan page and some articles and/or get some discussions going. Once you’ve done this, you can invite your friends and promote your fan page on your website or anywhere you like.
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