I'm working on a Facebook fan page app (a page tab) with a 'like' fan gate (users that like the page see the real content, and users that don't see only a "like us" image).
The thing is I need the fan page to be found on Google's search.
Should the fact that only fans can enter the app in any way affect the Google bots?
I am currently assuming that it does, but I want to be sure.
And if it does it mean that I have no control over the fan page's SEO?
I have read about SEO, but I haven't found anything about this.
I would be very happy if someone here could help me, even refer me to some documentation or anything about it.
Thanks!
Your presumption is correct. Here are two workarounds:
Detect Google's User-Agent and display the un-gated content when
appropriate.
Gate the page with a div overlay so that all the ungated content is
still there, but simply unavailable to the user until she clicks Like.
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I want a Like button on my web site that Likes my Facebook profile (rather than my web page), so that when a user clicks it they subscribe to my Facebook posts.
I've created the Like button using the tool at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Further down that page there is an FAQ entry:
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in the href
parameter of the button.
So, I've edited the href parameter to point to my Facebook page. eg:
https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid
When a user clicks the Like button it has the desired effect. The user ends up having Liked my Facebook page. This is easily verified by the user going to my Facebook profile and checking that the Like button has changed to Liked.
But. When the user clicks the Like button, and entry appears in their News Feed with a generic Facebook description. ie:
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to
keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links
and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
I don't want a generic post about Facebook to appear. I want the description to relate to my Facebook account and/or web site.
Normally, I could modify this behavior with the Opengraph og: description tag, but as the page in the href is a Facebook page and not my own, I can't control the Opengraph tags.
I'm pretty sure that this was working okay before I enabled timeline for my account, so maybe this is a timeline bug?
So, how do I add a Like button which a) Likes my Facebook profile rather than one of my own web pages, and b) Posts a description of my Facebook profile rather than give a generic Facbook description?
Are all your fields in the info part of your page filled in, and/or completed? I just tested your theory and it seemed to work as expected, only thing is I know all fields in "info" are filled it. Give that a try.
This may happen if you have filled invalid/incomplete/wrong og tags in past and later changed them. Facebook's cache creates problem sometime.
Try putting all the entries (i.e. all og tags) and then debug them here http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. This debugger gives a detailed info about the url with og tags and also clears the cache for you.
This should solve the problem.
You have 3 important fields that used on page opengraph: Name,Description,Profile Image.
They are used when some one post your link on Facebook, or Google or some else web service that handle opengraph.
Actually, the suggested answers currently do not work and there is an open bug / ticket on Facebook for it. Up to now, there's no fix.
The problem is that you can not use simply https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid. You should copy and paste the exact page URL. If you have a low number of likes it would look something like https://www.facebook.com/pages/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/, and this is the URL that you should use at this point.
If it does not work, try also https://www.facebook.com/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/.
In short, copy-paste the URL, do not type it manually.
I have a one site , there I want to place a Facebook share button after the sharing the url or link return back on the site and show the coupon instead of share button.
We are waiting for the answers.
If any one give the right answer or make the script , I will give the some bouns.
From the Facebook official documentation:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
The Share button has been deprecated in favor of the Like button, and
will no longer be supported. Please use the Like button whenever
possible to drive maximum traffic to your apps.
I don't know specifically how to redirect to your site, however I suggest you to switch to like button in any case
I'm no lawyer, but it appears that forcing a person to share something is not correct
https://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php
You must not
condition registration or entry upon the user taking any action using
any Facebook features or functionality other than liking a Page,
checking in to a Place, or connecting to your app. For example, you
must not condition registration or entry upon the user liking a Wall
post, or commenting or uploading a photo on a Wall.
You should have your corporate attorney take a look at this before proceeding further with forcing a share.
Like is easy to do and is explicitly permissible. See:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Facebook's sharer.php is no longer deprecated but I suggest you switch to using dialog/feed to steer folks back to your coupon.
<a id='fb-share' style='text-decoration:none;' type='icon_link' onClick="window.open('https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?display=popup&app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&link=THE_PAGE_WITH_THE_SHARE_BUTTON?&description=MY_AWESOMENESS&redirect_uri=THE_PAGE_WITH_THE_COUPON&picture=URL_OF_A_PRETTY_IMAGE', 'mywindow', 'toolbar=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=580,height=325');
return false;" href="javascript: void(0)">Share on Facebook</a>";
I can not find a TOS violation for offering coupons to those that like or share.
I use fan gates on a lot of different fan pages. The idea has always been you land on the page and see a like us to gain something after clicking like the page reloads and now the user sees the content behind the fan gate.
I noticed today that after liking a page it immediately goes to the wall, is this a bug? Is this feature deprecated? I don't have much wall activity on my pages, I'd rather users see our portfolio or special deals.
This is a bug on facebook right now, described here - https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/110015112440103
It'd be great to have an interim fix but since the code for the Like button is outside of what's accessible to the page tab, I'm having trouble imaging what a solution might look like, short of removing the address from your page to make it not a "place", which seem to be the only pages affected.
I've been having this problem for the past few days, but today I found the solution. It seems the problem lies with the new recommend dialog box on pages. This box only appears on pages for places and prevents the page from reloading. If you have a address assigned to your page then remove it and your fangate will reload in the window when liked and not redirect to the wall page. I know this isn't a preferred fix, but until Facebook fixes the new dialog box it'll have to do.
Facebook has "pages" for many things, like people, companies, etc. But it also has this open graph protocol. My company already has a web site, and we also have a facebook page (i.e. http://www.facebook.com/company)
People can "like" either one. We use a like iframe on the company website that refers to the website URL. I'd like to know if they can be connected such that when someone likes our facebook page, they really like our company's web site.
Or are these always going to be considered two different things?
To elaborate on puffpio's answer, you can have a like button for your existing page on you website by using the existing page's facebook url as the href parameter.
It is essential that you do not put a like button to your url if you do not want your likes split between the two. In this scenario there is no reason to have an open graph object for your page other than to provide correct data when a user shares your url in their feed. It's important to note that these shares also count towards the counter on the like button and as far as I know there is no way to recover them.
You can also use this url as your og:url tag however this will cause the linter to throw errors since the domains do not match.
No. Page and website is something different and you can't force user to like both
They are different things, but a workaround is that the like button on the company's website can be a like button for their page on Facebook with a caveat like 'Like us on Facebook' or something
I want to create fb page,and to force users to like page,and to share if they want to see content of my fb fan page.
So,like that page,share that page,and you can than show content of that page.
You need to "capture" if the landing user on your Page Tab likes the page or not and if not show them different content and encourage them to Like the page to get more!
I've written an in-depth tutorial on how to check if a user is fan of your Facebook page and included a real world examples from a famous Facebook pages!
And just to add to my own article above, another GREAT example is one the "most" popular pages on Facebook Coca-Cola!
Just a side note, you don't force the users....you encourage them!
The closest you could get is to use a Canvas page with a Like Box or something embedded in it. You can listen for the "Like" by waiting for an FB.event.subscribe(edge.create) event in embedded Javascript.
I would caution you to abide by the terms for forcing people to like a page.
"Like" Reward Guidelines
Facebook API Policy