I know that our webpage can serve as a fan page if users click a Like button on one of our webpages which is setup with the proper open graph tags.
When that happens, how do we publish updates to these users?
I know it has to be from the Facebook page that is the Admin within the respective open graph tags. But how do we actually publish an update from the admins Facebook account to users that have Liked a specific webpage on our site which has the proper open graph setup..
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I have a Facebook page with 50K+ likes on it and a separate website, when analysed with Moz, that only has a few hundred likes (which I believe are coming from WordPress on the site's blog).
For a number of reasons, I would like to associate the two with each other, so is it possible to link my FB page likes to website?
At this stage I don't want a FB Like/Share/Recommend, and simply just want my Facebook page and its like to be representative of my website. I can understand why this might not be possible, but I just thought I would ask.
If it it's not possible (like this post Facebook Open Graph : Associate Website with Facebook Page indicates) to do with Facebook page's pageId, is there way I can associate a FB app (in the form of a website) with my existing facebook page without having to make a new FB page?
There is no way to combine/link Likes of an external Website with the Likes/Fans of a Facebook Page.
About associating an App with a Page: You can install an App on a Page, it is called "Page Tab" or "Page App". Of course you don't need to create a new Page for that, you can install an App on every Page you own. You can also use that exact same App for something else on your external website. Check out the "platforms" in the App settings.
I have created a button on a test website which gets the user to post a custom Open Graph story using the Facebook Javascript SDK. (*** is going to an event).
However, my users do not get the option to post this action to their Groups Timeline, or share on a friends timeline – see the below Facebook sharer dialog, (where you are always sharing a link – I don't think you can use Custom Open Graph actions with the Sharer).
I've looked all over the Docs and can't seem to find a way to make this functionality happen – trying to avoid users having to login to my site with Facebook/ generate a user access token.
Any solution?
When adding Open Graph tags to "like" button on each page of awebsite, what are the benefits of connecting the pages to Facebook by Application ID (fb:app_id meta tag) instead of/in addition to fb:admins metatag?
Edit: Is there any difference in Facebook Insights between the two?
thefb:app_id tag allows that application to manage the pages (publish posts, delete posts/comments, etc). The fb:admins tag allows the users specified to manage those pages via any page management application they install to their profile. They would also get access to a Facebook Page on Facebook that only they could access, used to manage the page (publish posts, manage comments, etc) but I'm not sure if that exists any more or not.
I have a Facebook Fan Page. I could embed this feed into a site using Facebook's social activity plugin right now and we'd have nothing else to discuss. HOWEVER, when I do this, it only includes the content the PAGE posts, not the fan-submitted content. I'd like to have an embeddable stream of my actual page wall, which includes my content and fan-submitted content. Any ideas?
Per the documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/activity/, the social activity plugin is working as described. (of note,
The activity feed displays stories when users like content on your
site, when users share content from your site in Facebook or if they
comment on a page on your site in the Comments box.
If a user is logged into Facebook, the plugin will be personalized to
highlight content from their friends. If the user is logged out, the
activity feed will show recommendations from across your site, and
give the user the option to log in to Facebook.
To get the functionality you want, you will have write your own plugin.
I have a web app that is connected to facebook graph, and thus have a corresponding facebook app. I'm looking for a means of communicating with the users of my app through their facebook feed.
So far I've asked the users to like the facebook application profile page for my app, so that when I post news on that wall, the users get it. This causes some confusion since the application profile page is a bit of a peripheral component in the webapp-facebook relationship.
Ideally I would be able to post on facebook either as the app, so that I reach all the registered users, or as the app url (www.myapp.url) so that users who like that url will get the posts. Alternatively somehow link the application profile page and the url/app, so that likers of the url or users of the app get the profile page posts.
Note that I'm not looking to post to users walls (just their feeds) and I'd prefer to post manually, using facebooks interface for posting.
The only ways you can publish into a user's news feed is to use a Facebook Page or a Facebook Open Graph Object. So, you did right by asking users to like your Facebook Application Page. If you've also got a webpage that people like, you can turn that webpage into an Open Graph object by adding an fb:app_id or fb:admins meta tag to the head of the page. Doing this grants you access to publish to your fans' news feeds, and you get access to a Facebook page-like interface (for administration purposes only). You can publish to the user's feed using this feed publisher (just like you would do if your Graph object were any other Facebook Page).
To get to the admin page you just have to make sure your Facebook User ID is in the fb:admins meta tag. Once it is, visit a like button social widget for that object, and you'll get the a link that lets you go to the admin page for the object.
I hope that's clear. You should probably give the Open Graph Protocol Documentation a good read.