Facebook and Twitter: Use Your Fan Page to Tweet

If you are the admin to a Facebook Page (Fan Page), you can now share updates with your Twitter followers, and are able to control the type of updates you want to share: status updates, links, notes, photos, etc, or all of them!

This is a huge advancement to Facebook and Twitter. You can now use two of the most powerful social networks on the Internet, side by side. Killing two birds with one stone.

This application will also allow you the option to sync multiple Pages to different Twitter accounts. So if you have a second or third Fan Page that you operate and a Twitter account to coincide with it, then can sync those as well.

Hint: If you create a Fan Page, make a Twitter account for it too. And vice versa.

All this is available at http://www.facebook.com/twitter

It is easy to use. Sign into your facebook account and follow the link above.

Click on “Link a Page to Twitter”

Then select the Facebook Fan Page you want to link to your Twitter account.Next, you will be redirected to Twitter. Allow Facebook access. (You might need to sign into Twitter)

From here you will be able to create the settings for what Facebook sends to Twitter. I go for them all!

Happy Tweeting!

Add Keywords to the Facebook About box

A great place to add some quick SEO keywords to your Facebook page is in the About box that displays on your profile. This little box can fit 250 characters of custom text, where you can intertwine some of your own words with keywords. Woohoo!

The reason it is a good idea to put some keywords in this box is to take advantage of it’s placement on the page, it is the first place on the page where Facebook will let you add a nice chunk of custom text. So search engines will crawl your Facebook page and find this quickly!

All you need to do is click the box in the top right where that little pencil icon is. Add you 250 characters and boom, more quick Facebook SEO

Select Your Facebook Username

Facebook recently launched the “username” function for you Facebook page ( http://www.facebook/username ), which is probably one of the biggest SEO opportunities to take advantage of. This function allows you to select a specific username that will end up being your URL i.e. http://www.facebook.com/reispaluso.

This allows for a great opportunity for businesses to add a generic or specific keyword as their username for SEO purposes on the page itself. You will now have a powerful URL. Although Facebook has blocked certain generic terms, there are still opportunities for businesses to obtain relatively generic usernames, or usernames that combine their actual name with additional generic keywords.

The most effective way is to choose a username that accurately represents your business or brand. Make sure you think about it for a few because once you select your username, it is there forever! So pick something for the long term that you feel is right!

Also, for your Fan Page, a username is also available, but with more restrictions. The page must have at least 100 fans to be eligible for a username. So get out there and recruit your friends, family, and fans to join the forces so that you can take advantage of some SEO for your money making business.

Display the Links to Your Websites

This is huge! Facebook has a high page ranking so you want to make sure you include your website on your Facebook profile.If you don’t, well, you are missing a valuable link as well as probably a bit of traffic…

You want people to visit your blog, right? Well if they find you on Facebook, make it easy for a person to find  your website. You can display it right there on your main “Profile” screen. Someone viewing your Facebook page does not have to change to another tab, the “Info” tab, to find your website. Instead, make sure it is set to display in the Information box on the left sidebar of your Profile.

1. On the Infomation box on the left side bar of your “Profile”, click the small pencil icon to edit the box.

2. Check the box that says “Website”. Now your site(s) will display right there on your main Profile page!

Note: You can add more than one website. You can even add a link to find you on Twitter, YouTube, or maybe even LinkedIn.

Display the Most Influential Friends

Something most people don’t even think that can adjust are the friends who show up on the side of your page. You CAN change and actually select which friends will show up everytime. Here is where you would want to decide who your most influential “friends” are. You may want to have mom and dad, or even your best friend, but it is also a good idea to put up those who are influential to what you are trying to do. You decide who will make the cut.

1. Navigate to your “Profile” page.

2. Hover over the little icon in the right corner on the “Friends” box. Here is where you can edit who displays on your page. You can have 6, 8, or 12 friends be displayed. Just start typing in the names of those you want to be on there!