Techie Wannabe - Create A Facebook Like Page For Your Blog Or Product

The fast progress of Facebook as a social networking site has made it the most visited site by netizens. Thanks to Facebook, we bloggers now find it as the best place to promote our blogs with minimal effort. A plus because when people Like your Page on Facebook, their friends will also be able to see it and can visit your page too. I personally think it's great!

Looks like rocket science when creating a Facebook Like Page, but no, it's not at all! A little, maybe :) But let me share my instructions to you, though you'll have to forgive me because I narrate in the most basic way I can even down to making it understandable by a 6th grader, ha-ha!

So here it goes:

Login to your Facebook account and go to Create Page on Facebook. You will get some options to select from - Local Business or Place, Company, Organization or Institution, Brand or Product and so on. Select “Brand or Product”. A drop-down box will show. Select “Website” and give your Page a title- your blog's title will be best. Mark a check on Agree with the terms and conditions and Get Started.



There... you've created a Facebook Page for your blog!
Wait, there's an itty-bitty more that needs to be done. Upload a thumbnail picture of your blog page or your blog's logo. This is to give it the recognition label for your fans and followers.
(optional - Not shown)You can do this just after creating the Page. Click "Edit Page" on the top right corner. On the next page select "Apps" found on the left navigation. You will find "Notes" as the last option. Just select, and follow through with the instructions. You will need your Feed Address to go through.


( I simply got mine from Opera pop-up thumbnails, as below)

Next, Tell Your Fans. Invite your Facebook friends to Like and join your Page. Import contacts from your email to Facebook and invite them to Like your Page too.

On Promote This Page on your website, select Add Like Box. Or go to this Page and change the Facebook Page url to your Facebook Page Name ID, and check the options (width, color scheme, show faces, etc) that you like to have for your Like Box as it would fit in your blog design.

When done, click "Get code" and highlight-copy the "iframe" code and paste to your blog.




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Techie Wannabe - How To Create A Networked Blog Page For Your Blog

More again of my Techie Wannabe series of posts. This time I'm featuring a step-by-step process of creating a networked blog page.

1. Go to http://www.networkedblogs.com/
and just click on that Add Your Blog button, as below.

Clicking on that button will lead you to http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/

2. Next, click on Register a Blog




Here, registering your blog will lead you to http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/editblog.php

3. Next, simply fill out the form as below. Choose search tags and write your blog description to help people find your blog on Facebook :

4. Confirm that you are the owner of the blog by clicking on Yes



5. Now you need to verify ownership of your blog. You can ask friends to verify you, or you can use widget to verify ownership (second one is better). Indeed, technical skills are required. No worries, it's easy.

6. Choose Install Widget to get to the next step.





7. Copy the html code given for your blogspot/wordpress blog and install the widget on your blog. This step is necessary to claim your blog as your own. Remember to click Verify Widget right after.

8. You will get to this page below. Next click on Set up Syndication to make sure that your blog is syndicated properly.

9. From there you can syndicate your blog to your own Facebook profile. Click on Add Facebook Target. More syndication targets will be introduced, choose ones that may apply to your need. When done, click Close.

So there you are!

Indeed, Facebook has become an everyday habit to log onto for many tech-savvy people, that is why we bloggers who are on facebook can now easily share our posts - without the extra tweaks- to our friends and readers. Enjoy!

Techie Wannabe: Blog Speed Test

As a regular blogger, I wonder how viewers see my blog and how fast it loads to welcome readers. I've recently read that blog speed is very important because it increases blog traffic and makes your blog come up on search results faster.

Ha-ha, talking about these techie stuff leaves me perplexed! I'm being honest here, dear readers. Yet I consider it a necessity to read up on these topics because it will help our blogs performance greatly.

1-2 seconds is an ideal page loading speed on a regular computer, of course. I'm out for the moment at an internet cafe with a blessed fast rented computer! So I tried the Blog Test on Pingdom Tools and my blog's result was 0.5 seconds! It's good enough :)



Try the test above and please let me know your blog's results as a comment. Thanks!






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