Comments on: Design Your Blog Theme to Show Your Post on Facebook http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/ A Guide to Social Media for Bloggers Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kim Vallee http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-8558 Kim Vallee Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:34:35 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-8558 Tracey and Janet: What I recommend is to use the Facebook widget available from the "Promote with a Fan Box menu" on your fan page. Personally, I prefer the Fan Box. It was more effective than a simple link to grow my fan base. Another option is the Page badge. You insert the code provided by Facebook where you want it on your HTML page. You have to remember than blog pages are a mash-up of several components. Looking at the page source gives one part of the solution - the interpreted one. It is not necessarily what you should write on your HTML page. Because of that, it is safer to use the code provided on the widget section of your fan page. For an <a href="http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/index.php" rel="nofollow">overview of all the options</a>, click here. Tracey and Janet: What I recommend is to use the Facebook widget available from the “Promote with a Fan Box menu” on your fan page. Personally, I prefer the Fan Box. It was more effective than a simple link to grow my fan base. Another option is the Page badge. You insert the code provided by Facebook where you want it on your HTML page.

You have to remember than blog pages are a mash-up of several components. Looking at the page source gives one part of the solution – the interpreted one. It is not necessarily what you should write on your HTML page. Because of that, it is safer to use the code provided on the widget section of your fan page. For an overview of all the options, click here.

]]> By: Janet http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-8555 Janet Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:31:21 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-8555 LOL - VERY SMART WEB PAGE - IT DECIPHERED WHAT I WROTE AND MESSED UP INTENTIONALLY. Never mind. Just go to that Vanity Fair page, and read the page sources... I tried! Cheers, and sorry for taking up so much space-didn't know it was going to do that! :) ~JO LOL – VERY SMART WEB PAGE – IT DECIPHERED WHAT I WROTE AND MESSED UP INTENTIONALLY. Never mind. Just go to that Vanity Fair page, and read the page sources… I tried!
Cheers, and sorry for taking up so much space-didn’t know it was going to do that! :)
~JO

]]> By: Janet http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-8554 Janet Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:29:27 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-8554 Tracey and Kim, Due to the nature of showing the HTML for the Vanity Fair page, it didn't of course come out as HTML but showed up instead as the normal text "Facebook" you would see on their page in the very bottom right hand corner instead ! (LOL - my bad...) So instead I will write it out here to show you with spaces in between so that you can retype it together WITHOUT the spaces and #'s and add it appropriately. M O R E <b> (NOTE: there is a natural space after the r and before the / in this line where I put in this symbol #) <a> F a c e b o o k </a> <b> NOTE: drop down a line under the word "More", indent in a few spaces, then... there are natural spaces after the 1st a before the first h in this line; another one after the " and before the t in target; and a third one after the very last r and before the last / in this line... where I put in the symbol #) THEN after all that, you've got to view the page source for your own Facebook profile and link THAT mess to the above mess ;) As far as I understand it... Kim, is this correct? or is there an easier way? Last I heard on another website even as recently as last week Facebook had changed the way you can add them and your stuff to your own website, and from what Vanity Fair has (and I see from looking at all of this) - this method posted here is working, at least for now :) Tracey and Kim,
Due to the nature of showing the HTML for the Vanity Fair page, it didn’t of course come out as HTML but showed up instead as the normal text “Facebook” you would see on their page in the very bottom right hand corner instead ! (LOL – my bad…)

So instead I will write it out here to show you with spaces in between so that you can retype it together WITHOUT the spaces and #’s and add it appropriately.
M O R E
(NOTE: there is a natural space after the r and before the / in this line where I put in this symbol #)
F a c e b o o k
NOTE: drop down a line under the word “More”, indent in a few spaces, then… there are natural spaces after the 1st a before the first h in this line; another one after the ” and before the t in target; and a third one after the very last r and before the last / in this line… where I put in the symbol #)

THEN after all that, you’ve got to view the page source for your own Facebook profile and link THAT mess to the above mess ;)

As far as I understand it… Kim, is this correct? or is there an easier way? Last I heard on another website even as recently as last week Facebook had changed the way you can add them and your stuff to your own website, and from what Vanity Fair has (and I see from looking at all of this) – this method posted here is working, at least for now :)

]]> By: Janet http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-8553 Janet Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:14:44 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-8553 Hi Tracey, I've seen a LOT of questions tonight about joining blogs with Facebook - notorious for changing their formats ROUTINELY and OFTEN. One thing that may help you, if you're any good with HTML is to view the browser info... Go to "View", then "Page Source" (at least in Mozilla) - scroll ALL the way down and you'll come cross this: MORE <a href="/go/facebook" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a> Note: The text that says "/go/facebook" is a "live link" of sorts that takes you to the HTML Page Source for this: http://www.facebook.com/vanityfairmagazine So, adding that link loaded with the page source for your own Facebook profile should work, correct? :) If either you or Kim can let me know if this turns out to be correct as I am getting ready to build my own web and blog and want to do the same, that would be great :) Hi Tracey,
I’ve seen a LOT of questions tonight about joining blogs with Facebook – notorious for changing their formats ROUTINELY and OFTEN. One thing that may help you, if you’re any good with HTML is to view the browser info… Go to “View”, then “Page Source” (at least in Mozilla) – scroll ALL the way down and you’ll come cross this:
MORE
Facebook

Note: The text that says “/go/facebook” is a “live link” of sorts that takes you to the HTML Page Source for this: http://www.facebook.com/vanityfairmagazine

So, adding that link loaded with the page source for your own Facebook profile should work, correct? :)
If either you or Kim can let me know if this turns out to be correct as I am getting ready to build my own web and blog and want to do the same, that would be great :)

]]> By: Tracey Butterfield http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-6789 Tracey Butterfield Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:02:07 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-6789 Hi Kim, Do you know how I can add my facebook feed to my website - like they do on the Vanity Fair homepage? (http://www.vanityfair.com) Thanks Hi Kim,

Do you know how I can add my facebook feed to my website – like they do on the Vanity Fair homepage? (http://www.vanityfair.com)

Thanks

]]> By: Kim Vallee http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-5837 Kim Vallee Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:51 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-5837 Marc Alter: The manual entry only takes a couple of seconds and it provides the best results with more viral potential. Your best bet is to do it how I suggested it in the post (using Add Link) Even Networkedblogs do not suggest automatic updates. Here is what they say about Auto Publish as Story (Looks nice but has low distribution): "Completely Automatic Format #3: However, due to Facebook rules, the posts are only published on your page wall but not to your fans' home pages." Marc Alter: The manual entry only takes a couple of seconds and it provides the best results with more viral potential. Your best bet is to do it how I suggested it in the post (using Add Link)

Even Networkedblogs do not suggest automatic updates. Here is what they say about Auto Publish as Story (Looks nice but has low distribution):
“Completely Automatic Format #3: However, due to Facebook rules, the posts are only published on your page wall but not to your fans’ home pages.”

]]> By: Marc Alter http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-5831 Marc Alter Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:52:10 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-5831 Hey Kim, I have a quick question for you. Is there a way to automatically post all new blog posts to Facebook through the Post Link method so that each new post shows up in my Fan Page's Wall and on Fan's newsfeeds (in the format of #3 above)? Or do I have to submit each link manually? Thanks, Marc Hey Kim,

I have a quick question for you. Is there a way to automatically post all new blog posts to Facebook through the Post Link method so that each new post shows up in my Fan Page’s Wall and on Fan’s newsfeeds (in the format of #3 above)? Or do I have to submit each link manually?

Thanks,
Marc

]]> By: Chantal Beaupre http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/2009/04/design-your-blog-theme-to-show-your-post-on-facebook/#comment-4256 Chantal Beaupre Fri, 01 May 2009 22:26:29 +0000 http://ontheweb.kimvallee.com/?p=1474#comment-4256 Hello Kim, Thank you very much for pointing out this very important matter. Trust that I'll make sure to have my blog posts published on Facebook as professionally showed in example #3. Warmly, Chantal Hello Kim,

Thank you very much for pointing out this very important matter. Trust that I’ll make sure to have my blog posts published on Facebook as professionally showed in example #3.

Warmly,
Chantal

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