Add a Facebook "Like" Button to your Pages
By Dave Maloney
In your online travels you've probably heard about or seen the new Facebook "Like" button, or the more professional-sounding version, "Recommend" button. Not seemingly much of a big deal at first, "Like" was a replacement for "Become a Fan of..." - good for Facebook Business pages to gain popularity from other users only within Facebook. The new Like Button breaks out of the Facebook realm, allowing all that traffic to head right to your site.
You don't have to be signed up on Facebook to add a Like button on your website. It is very simple to do, and Facebook provides a generator on their Facebook Social Plugins page that allows you to create and customize your own button (shown at right). You can easily copy/paste the button code on the page or pages where you think it would work best.
If you're not logged into Facebook, the button on your page looks like this:
When someone who is logged into facebook, the button on your page will look like this:
Facebook pages aren't indexed in search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo, so all these new links won't help your rankings in search engine page results. But as Facebook continues to grow at ludicrous speed, even if you're not signed up, you probably know a few dozen people who are, who know a few thousand, and so on.
That's hundreds of thousands of potential Facebook walls that could have a link to your website for all their friends and relatives to click on and visit your business:
See one in action on our homepage, www.Pagetender.com...and if this was helpful at all, please give it a click!