Building traffic is one those things any website owner or blogger wants to do, but doesn’t always know how. While many people will point you to social networking, there are few who actually tell you how to use social networking to build traffic. Facebook has over 300 million users spaning across the globe! Taking the time to make a fan page on Facebook is a great way to build traffic to your blog or website. It’s also a excellent way to promote a product, event, or anything else you want a lot of people to see. I recently created a fan page for my blog (techlifemashup.com), and have been quite happy with the early success of it. I would encourage anyone else who is interested in maintaining an easy channel of communication among many around their blog or website to also look into using this tool.
Creating a Facebook Fan Page
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Step 1
Go to the following website and login with your facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
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Step 2
You should now see a page that says “Create New Facebook Page.” You want to select the category that best matches the purpose of your fan page. In my case for example, I selected the “Brand, Product, or Organization” category with a subcategory of “website.” I then entered my website (TechLifeMashup) that I was looking to create a fan page for below.
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Step 3
The next step is to confirm that you want to create your fan page. You do this by checking the box to authorize creation of the page and then enter your full name as listed in facebook into the “electronic signature” box at the bottom of the page. Review that all information is correct and hit the “create page” button at the very bottom.
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Step 4
Once you have clicked the “create page” button above, your fan page will be created. You should now be sitting at the default layout for your fan page. You will now want to configure the settings of your fan page to shape the layout the way you want it to look. The final step will be to click the green “Publish” button at the top of your fan page once you have it setup the way you want everyone to see it. The “publish” button will allow the rest of the facebook community to see your page. Please see my tips and suggestions below on how to further setup your fan page.
That’s all there is to it. Be sure to let me know if you found this article useful!
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