Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Feature Your Website Content on Facebook Timeline Pages

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The 2 Categories of Online Business Owners

Since Facebook is larger than many countries (virtually speaking, of course), it's a great site for businesses to feature their content and get visiblity online. The high amount of content coursing through those blue veins ensures constant indexing by Google and other search engines. And since Facebook Pages (unlike personal pages) are completely searchable, they are naturally the perfect place to establish a presence.

Most business owners will fall into 2 categories online - They already have a website, or they don't. Either way, both types will benefit from using Timeline Pages.

  • If you already have an established website, hurrah! You probably already have graphics and other visual elements that may be featured on the new Facebook Timeline.
  • If you don't have a website, you can leverage Facebook Pages as a temporary "website" - and Facebook doesn't charge a penny! It will probably take longer to build than a if you already have a website as there will be more creative visual work to do. For example, if you don't have a logo or any photos, you will need to create them for the Page to be an effective branding tool.

For those who already have websites, good news! Not only does the new Timeline Pages format allow you to create your own visual masterpiece of a presence,  each part of your business can be featured separately as well using something called Tabs.

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Tabs on Pages

What are tabs exactly? They are kind of like a file folder inside a file drawer. Think of a Facebook Timeline Pages like file drawers. And each folder has a little "tab" used for identification.

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Through the wonder of technology, you can feature your website pages and other content on your Page's Tabs.The really wonderful aspect of this is the person perusing your Tabs doesn't ever leave Facebook. The person may navigate around your content just like your website, but all the navigation occurs in Facebook. As an example, here's Pepsi's Facebook Timeline Page:
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And here is one single Tab from the same Page. The possibilities are endless! Sell paintings, feature your contact information, anything you can do on a website you can feature on your Facebook Page:

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If you're interested in creating custom Tabs for your business based on an existing website, let me know. I can help you create it. We'll work together to get the look you want. It probably won't take long (unless you have a LOT of website pages). Average cost for one Tab is probably going to be less than $150. Got an online store or sell item on Amazon? Create the same store on a Facebook Timeline Page and get Facebook to help promote, creating income and sales.

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