I am currently implementing Facebook on an eCommerce store.
I have a Facebook page for the actual store and I also have links on each of the product pages where visitors can "Like" the individual products.
Now, I know that when someone "likes" the actual Facebook Page of the store, they receive status updates whenever that page makes a post on their wall.
Is there any way to integrate this also if someone only likes a product, instead of the entire Page, they also receive status updates of the Page?
Or do they need to like the actual Page in order to receive updates.
I hope someone with experience in integrating this can help me. Thank you very much :)
The question is: Building a relationship with a user visiting your page or an opportunity to reach to friends of that particular user.
If the user likes a post, link or an article on your web page this is a one time action and after some time this action will disappear from his/her friends' news feed. And the opportunity to interact with that user one more time will disappear as well. But if that user likes your page so you will have one more fan who will receive your updates every time you post them (Actually this is not always as Facebook news feed algorithm can filter your post).
But what can I suggest is: Put a separate Like Box in your web page to gain more likes for your Facebook page. This like will be more targeted and relevant, as they know what they are doing and they will not be surprised if they see some posts from your page on their news feed. This could be a better experience for your page. And secondly put separate like button on each product with correct meta tags and if it interests particular users they will go to your web page and if they like it, they will also connect to your Facebook page.
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I am trying to implement the Facebook like box onto my website to show posts by others onto my Facebook page, however it is only showing a feed of the posts the page has made to its timeline and not the posts of other Facebook users.
I'm not sure how I can get this to happen? I'm not bothered about having the page's posts appear but I definitely want other's posts to appear in the feed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Afaik the Plugin only shows posts "by the Page", so that is intentional. Think of it this way: If you get many User postings and only write a few Page postings, your Page postings would just not be very visible in the plugin.
You can only use the "force_checkin" parameter of the plugin to show checkins of friends, see Facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages
If you want to get the posts of Users on a Page, you would have to use the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.1/page/feed
The docs include some example code for most relevant languages and you will get User posts too. Of course you have to design it on your own, you just get data from the API.
Ideally this is what I would want:
I have a fb fan page with around 2000 likes. I also have a fb app by
which I can run social plugins on my website. I put up a like button
using the following code on my website: {fb:like
href="http://facebook.com/traveltriangle"}
I want to show Like button on my website such that if user clicks on
it, my fan page's 'like' increases. However I also want that for the
post that goes on user's timeline, it links to my website and not to my fan page.
How do I achieve this?
I am also fine if I change href in the fb:like code to point it to my website. However then the referral links are good, but I can not use those likes to post my users later.
I don't think you can use merge tam. Fb Fan page is one thing and Fb App is other thing. FB App helps you get user data from what I know from their database while Fan page helps you promote your business.
Why do you need to merge them?
I want to run a competition on my facebook page on a given user who will like my page for instance, say the 100th user who likes this page get free service in this
I have checked everywhere even with the new facebook graph, I cant seems to see any more details about the user page as to when they didn it, or some sort of count to know that user is what number is terms of likes..
Anyone who knows a way or can assist?..
Can't be done. Sorry. There is no way for you to get the 100th user who likes a Facebook page.
Maybe you make a fan gate application as a "Page Tab" application, where every 100th unique person visiting the fan-gated app gets something.
I'm tring to send customized news to my users via Facebook.
I've tried posting private posts to their walls, so they show up on their news feed, but people got upset by the new posts on their wall (even though noone else can see them)
Is there a way to do this?
I considered building a page per user and suggest to the user to follow it - can this be done via API?
Can a user follow updates on just any page (non fan page) that he Liked, or that has a FB comments box?
Alternatively, can I programatically send Facebook notifications?
You can try creating a single Page for your app. Then when a user connects with your app, auto-follow that page so that all posts to that page show up in the user's feed.
Now just add new posts to that Page with privacy settings targetted at just that user.
Thats my off the cuff answer.
Background: My employer is running a contest and wants to find out who the 1000th person to 'like' the page is, and if they were referred by someone. Is that functionality build in already, or does an app have to be written to find out this info?
There's no way to get a list of page fans or the order in which they became fans, but you can track new fans who like your page via capturing the edge.create event in the javascript API when they click the Like button.
You could also check the current like count to come to some sort of conclusion about which order users became fans and which 'number' fan they are
I must point out though that running such a competition is expressly forbidden by Facebook's promotion guidelines: https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php