What if you could make it easier for people to “like” your Facebook page?
I used to ask people to “like” my Facebook page the hard way.
Have you been doing it this way too?
The hard way to get Facebook likes for your page
In the scenario above a Facebook user first needs to click on the name of the page to get to the page proper. Once there then they can “like” it. Cumbersome.
It can also be a bit confusing. Sometimes people just “like” the status rather than actually going to the page. Now that does help spread the word but it doesn’t always get your Facebook page the “likes” you need. Especially when you’re trying to obtain a custom Facebook URL for your page.
How to get new Facebook Likes the easy way
Thanks to a status update by Mariah MacCarthy in regards to people “liking” her theater company Purple Rep, I realized the error of my ways.
Instead of linking to the Purple Rep page, Mariah tagged the page in her status update. Now hovering over the Purple Rep tag brings up a window in which you can easily “like” the page without having to go to the page itself. Cool.
Here’s how you tag your page in a status update
Just follow the instructions in the image above to tag your page in a status update. Your status update with tags will then look like this:
Now all a person has to do is hover over the tagged name. This brings up a box that allows people to click “like” right from the update.
Pretty cool eh? That’s how you get more Facebook “likes” the easy way.
NOTE: If you already like the Page, you won’t see the “Like” button.
Just tag instead of link! Oh, and if you like music you can “like” my new Manic Joy page here:
How about you? Am I the only one doing things the hard way? Tell me in the comments.
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You didn’t include the haiku I wrote you…
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I think I missed the haiku! I’ll post it. Where is it? I’ll check facebook.
Great info! Would you happen to know how to respond to a person that’s liked your page? I’d like to send them a ‘thanks for liking us’ but I can’t seem to figure out how to do that as a page.
Hi Ariel,
Good question. I’m not too sure.
I’ll see what I can find out. Although I feel like a direct message for ‘liking’ a page would be more invasive than helpful.
A better way to might be to give access to a gift of some kind for liking your page as a thank you. You could even create a video of some sort.
Make sense?
If I might – I have a Face book page for my blog. When authors and followers like my page, I simply post Welcome to My Life. (the name) – insert name (and if author, author of). Facebook is linked to twitter so the thank you goes out. People have responded back and they seem to like the personalization. This has proved positive for me.
Nice. Thanks Donna.
Ariel, so from what I can tell you can not respond directly to a person who liked your page. But like I mentioned earlier your better off thanking them by creating an awesome Page for them.
Thanks for your help! Will do my best!
You can also “@name” tag people who like your page and that person will get a notification that they have been tagged in a post. You could also just post enough that your thank you messages show up in their news stream…
If I’m not mistaken you can only @ tag people who like your Page in comments.
Hi I cant find how to tag a page in your status. Could you tell me how to do this. I am a beginner and have been doing it the same way as you started!! (the hard way) thanks
One thing I have tried and find it a great way of getting likes. Is offering a prize on page, where people have to send pictures. The best five pictures get selected and then the person who gets the most votes on our site wins the prize (to vote, their friends must comment on page (i vote joe bloggs) therefore they have to LIKE the page so that they can vote
Thanks for the tips Jamie. I’ve seen people some type of prize to great success!
Hi Again, just figured out the tag thing you type @ just like you said.
Thank you
Great!
A great primer for beginners in social media marketing.
I was inspired and created my personal list of tips on how to get more facebook likes
http://designpinoy.com/web/how-to-get-more-likes-on-facebook
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Thanks for the link Caleb.
Ok, if you are still giving out advise I could really use it. I did exactly what you said and typed @college411mag on my page in the status area and the “LIKE” button did not come up. Do you have to have a number of “LIKES” before you can do this feature. Also, what do you know about usernames?
Hello,
Did you hit share after you typed @college411mag? Once that status goes live if you hover over the link it should give you info about the page and the ability to “like” it.
Also, be sure you “like” the page from your personal profile so the link comes up when you type the @pagename.
Let me know if this helps.
What specifically would you like to know about usernames?
Thanks for the comment.
Afternoon,
I did hit share and nothing pops up. Actually, the info pops up but not the “LIKE” button and yes I have “LIKE” my page as well, for about 2 weeks I was the only one… lol.
As for the username, I wanted to know if a username can be reused after an account has been deleted.
Thanks for the help.
Gotcha. The “like” button doesn’t show up for you because you already like the page. It will be there for those who haven’t liked it yet.
As far as I know you cannot reuse a deleted name. But I have not confirmed that.
Ahhhh, excellent. I was up till 4am trying to figure it out, telling myself “I have a Master’s Degree, but still a dumb A$$… lol.
Thanks alot.
As far as the username that is what I figured, but still very disappointed. So, I guess it will never come up then, right?
Doesn’t look like the username will come up again. More info here: http://www.facebook.com/help/new/?page=897
And don’t worry I’m king of the dumba$$es.
Glad to help.
Again, Thank You and I look forward to seeing more of your tips..
Oh, one more thing, is there a way to contact a Fb rep?
There is but it’s topic dependent. Best thing is to start in the help section and then drill down from there.
Thanks cool info and yes I have been doing it the hard way. Just created a Fan Page so needed the 25 likes to get started!
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Thank you for showing us how to tag our https://www.facebook.com/mywclub in a Status.
You’re welcome.
Nice information.
Thank you.
i found a website which has this collection of facebook pages to get likes .. i feel that is much similar to twiends but here they give no credits ..but user has to visit the site daily and like the new pages ..here is the link http://www.getalike.tk
Thanks Rituraj. I’m not sure I approve this type of site. Mainly because the likes are worthless. Sure there’s the perception that your page is more popular but I’d rather work a little harder on the front end to get likes from people who are actually interested in the page. Make sense?
I did the @ and my page came up but not the like. Is it because it is somehow linked to my personal page? My Life. One Story at a Time.
is my blog’s face book page. Thanks for any help.
Hi Donna,
Do you like your page already? If you do the option to like it doesn’t show up. Hope this helps.
How do I unlike myself? lol Sounds strange.
Lol. Go to the page proper as yourself. Look near the bottom of the left side column. You should see a link to “unlike”.
Thank you. I now no longer like myself. What does that say about me? A sad state of affairs (tsk tsk.) On the up side – it works! Thanks for all your help.
Hooray! My pleasure.
If you ever need another laugh, click on my name and it will take you to my blog where you will find not only book reviews but stories about my crazy life, including my “Lucy” adventures. Not liking myself is only the tip!
Happy Tuesday! Donna
Hello i have a page based on art work, i some how deleted the option of viewing the photo’s from the photo tab, how can i fix?
Hi Aaron, I’m investigating.
Aaron,
Click on “edit page” in the top right corner. Then click “apps” in the left column. Find the Photo app and click “edit settings”. You’ll then be able to click the option to add the Photo tab. Ta da!
This article is spot on. Not in innovation, or anything of the like, but in highlighting a simple solution to getting Facebook likes in a easier, less invasive manner. It’s quite easy to forget such simple solutions.
Thanks Lawrence. P.S. Lawrence is also the name of the city I grew up in.
Thanks for sharing useful info.
Thanks John.
Nope – I was doing it exactly the hard way you illustrated.
You good teacher.
From now on – I good student.
Lol. Glad it was helpful Frank!
Okay…. I’m confused. I tried this, but instead of a “Like” option appearing, I’m getting the options to “Add Friend” and “Send Message”. No “Like” option. What am I doing wrong? To make it clear, I’m entering the name of my “fan” page (*not* my personal page) with @ in front of it (@mypagename). It isn’t possible to “friend” this page, so why is this option appearing instead of “Like”?
Hmm…Kate, the only reason I can think this would happen would be that your fan page is actually a profile. What’s the url?
I’d prefer not to give out thje url, if that’s okay, but it’s definitely a “fan” page, or a “fb page”, and not my personal page. The url of the page is actually a name followed by some numbers, like this:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Page_Name/91721123456
(I’ve only changed the name and the number. ) As you can see, it’s definitely a fb page, and not my private page.
Can you confirm that I’m not supposed to include the number after the page name? I’m using “@PageName” not “@PageName/91721123456″
Is that what I shuld be doing?
As you type the @ symbol and the name of the page it should show up in a drop down menu so you can select it. Is that happening?
That only happens if I have already “Liked” the page.
When I type the @ symbol and then the first couple of letters of the name, it appears in a dropdown. If I *select* the name from the dropdown, the @ disappears, and if I post that, it appears as a link (but it looks like plain text: you it only becomes underlined if I run my cursor over it, and the icon image from the page appears). If I don’t select the name from the dropdown, but type in the name manually, the same thing happens. But no “Like” option appears (presumably because I have already “Liked” the page).
So I “un-Liked” the page and tried the whole thing again. This time the dropdown didn’t appear when I typed in the name, and only plain text (the name) appeared when I posted it – no link, no image; just plain text. Nothing happened when I hovered over it. The name just appears as plain text.
I went back to the page and “Liked” it again. And again, the name appeared in a dropdown when I began to type it in the update box on my personal page. And again the neme appeared as a link (that looked like plain text until the cursor goes over it) – but no “Like” option appears.
I tried the whole thing again from the fb account of a friend, and it’s exactly the same. So I don’t know… could they fb have changed the settings somehow so that this no longer works, I wonder? They keep changing everything all the time. It’s very annoying.
So it sounds as if things are working the way they should. If you have “liked” the page you won’t have the option to “like” it again when you hover.
Eh…. no, it isn’t working at all. For someone who hasn’t already “Liked” the page the name only appears as plain text on the fb wall. No link, no dropdown, nothing on hover, no “Like” option.
This still doesnt work for me.
This is really driving me nuts. It seems to work for everyone else, but not for me. Yesterday I created a new fb page and tried it again. It doesnt work. And Im using a different computer (and a different browser) than I was the last time.
Im obviously doing something wrong – but how can I be? The instructions are simple, and I may be blonde, but Im not *that* blonde!
Lets say the page I created is Happy Christmas (it isnt, but it is two words), and that the url of the page is http://www.facebook.com/happychristmas
So what youre saying here is that if I post @happychristmas in my status update, it should appear as an active link, and open a box when I hover over it with my cursor?
It doesnt. Nothing happens. @happychristmas just displays in plain text.
Ive also tried @Happy Christmas. Same thing. It just appears as plain text.
Can you *please* tell me what Im doing wrong!??
Hmm. Just sent you an email.
Just sent you an email Kate.
Thank You Dave for posting this tip this will help me a lot to get more likes on my part time job where I need to get a lit of FB Likes.
Glad the post was helpful Kris.
hello Dave, thanks for sharing this.
I tried this, yes, it works.
But I found another question, why some facebook pages don’t have the “like button even tagged by @ , would you please tell me why?
I tried our page, @BudgetGadgets , but it don’t have the like button .
sorry to trouble you, Dave, I just read all the comments, find that may because I already like the page, so it didn’t show up the like button now.
Thank you for your help, Dave !
Hi Bella! Glad to hear everything worked out.
Thanks man this really worked out!
Tagging can be an effective way to get Facebook Likes. But we also need to be engaging. We also need to interact regularly to the people who like our page, just like socializing as a human, and not a page or a product.
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Absolutely Vic. Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for this article!
I’m definately gonna use the tag for my page @LittleMonsterLegion !
Dave, Thanks for the great tips. Had a question about tagging a page, is it possible to tag a page while posting a comment on another page using the @?
Hi Len,
Yes. I believe that is possible. But you’ll want to be careful that you’re tagging something that is relevant to the discussion and not just trying to promote something. Not that that’s why you were asking.
Thanks for the comment!
Dave,
The reason I ask is because I saw on another page, a post referencing a quote with a link to the fb page that the quote was coming from. When I clicked on the fb page, i noticed the same post on that other page. My guess is that the author of the post, posted the same thing on both pages (unlike how twitter mentions would work).
I tried to use the @pagename on a post on my own page but could not get that to work. It just ended up as typed and not a link to the other page, do you happen to know how to create those links?
I’m not sure exactly what you mean without seeing it. Could it have been a share for the page’s post? Do you have a screen shot? If you do email it to me directly.
Hey! Another annoying FB trait, if another PAGE ‘likes’ your ‘Page’ … (i.e. it’s not an actual person, but a business page for example) it doesn’t always notify you or add to your number of LIKEs!! Most annoying, had this happen 4 times!! Any thoughts? Oh … will return the LIKEs btw. from: Lily’s Pond Photography (note the apostrophe ‘s on Lily’s! ~ as there’s now another page very similar in name!) Boo! lol
Very nice .. but i have a question .. how can i tag my facebook page link in another word .. i see some admins make posts for their pages in another pages , their pages name “any name” , but the link is on another word like “see more” .. please tell me how can i do something like that
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Yes Definitely the Tagging concept on the Facebook wall post do helps in getting more genuine likes more and more. It makes people in the friend list feel connected to the brand and thus they will like to like the page also easily.
This has been helpful, thanks
thanks for your tutorial… now i gotcha 110 likes for my page
Gaining more tribal knowledge all the time. The tagging of my Facebook page in my status update is a technique that I will be using. That is a gem. Thanks.
Hi Dave,
I applied your described method to use @fb-page on two FB pages. On one, I noticed the Like appearing in the hover picture. On the other, it is missing – I have a large 200×488 image which I use for the page. I wonder what is going on.
David
@David, do you already “Like” the other page? If you do the button doesn’t show up.
@Dave Charest Thanks so much for explaining the issue. You are right on. I did like the page so Facebook does not present to me the Like button in the hover popup.
Things are easy if you know the answer, or know Dave Charest.
Dave that was pretty well defined, I hope to experience an increase in our likes after implementing your likes.
Thank you very much!
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Has FB changed this feature since your article was written? I did it, and the link shows up just as you posted, but without the “like” option at the bottom left.
Hi Maya,
If you already like the page you won’t see the button.
Hello
We set-up a FB business page- but how do we get more people to like it? Some people ask why-what does it do if I like it.
Any suggestions
Thats the exact question you need to answer. What are you going to offer people who like your Page? Perhaps you could offer industry tips, exclusive behind the scenes stuff, you could offer specials, you could have fan appreciation posts, etc. There are lots of things you can do you just need to try things and see what gets the most engagement.
Some really good info here. I’ve written a page very similar to this, check it out at:
http://whatisthatallabout.com/how-can-i-get-likes-on-facebook/
If youre interested in swapping dofollow links, drop me an email, or comment on my page that Ive linked to. My site is PR2.
Interesting piece. Will go ahead and set up on my website. Thnaks.
Great info, simply put. Thank you. Now any info on how to grab email address from a landing page? Ie a page that says leave your email address and we will give you….(whatever)
Thanks Graeme. Do you mean a landing page on Facebook? Or just one on your website?
Hi Dave, it is for facebook, I have been going round in circles with old information trying to get fbml to work and just found out I need Iframes now, (I am new to all this!) I have managed to get a basic irames page up now though. But not yet managed the email grab thing, I think I have to add link into my landing page picture. (whic is at hypo-allergenic dog foods on facebook.
cheers
G
Okay. What email service provider do you use? Some have existing tools you can use to make it easier.
Hi Dave, Came across your article today and I’m trying to do it but not seeing the window popping up. Can you take a quick look and tell me what I’m doing wrong?
http://www.facebook.com/debbie.grattan
The post was at 2:05pm today.
nevermind, Dave. I think I figured out why it wouldn’t come up. Now it’s working! Thanks for that great little tip!
Excellent piece of information, thanks a bunch
I have been reading through your site and i thank you for this informative information.
Well, we gained 97 likes in one week just bij tagging the name as followed @onadailybasis. people clicked on it and they took the efford to like the page. those are the people you want on your page. so.. whatever man
This is a great idea and Im going to try it out here…
Check out my @Manganzon
Ohh.. I can only do it on Facebook… Okay.
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Great tips. Like the diagrams to illustrate what to do!
I can’t seem to figure out the @ thing you talked about, can you break it down in simpler terms? Thanks.
Hi Zeke,
Type the @ symbol then add a space and then start typing the name of the Page you’d like to tag.
Wow, thank you. I have sent out posts asking for likes from friends and family and all I ever got were likes for the status posts. I had a total of 3 likes after a year because I could not figure out how to make this easy for them. I gave up and just shared everything on my personal wall but with this method, I started getting likes in less than a minute. I signed up for Wicked Smaht e-course and am looking forward to reading it. If the info is as good as this article is, I can’t wait to use it.
Thanks Again, Stacey
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Awesome Stacey. Hope you enjoy the course.
great post and nice job keeping up with all of your comments.. great followthrough.
Thank you! =)
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely try them out..
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I’m trying to get my old “likes” to “like” my new page but it seems the @ trick only works on the new page, in which case the followers on the old page, won’t see it. It seems this means only the people who already see and like the page will see the message…
Thanks , very helpful
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