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!

Create a Social Network Ad

Here is something cool we found from the great blog, Mashable, that allows you to create an ad which will display a few social network IDs, your tweets, and even your RSS feed. Drive more traffic to your social networks and profiles on the Internet. It is customizable in that you can add your own background or banner, text, video, images, and more! Consider it your first Social Media ad. Get creative!

http://mashable.com/sociable-ad-creator/

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

Add SEO Friendly Photos to Facebook

This one seems so simple, but might be overlooked as well. I understand there is a lot to remember and think about when using Facebook as an SEO tool, but just try to keep it simple. You can add keywords almost anywhere. Lets take a look at a photo:

When adding photos to Facebook, we are given lots of different places to fill in information…

When creating a new album, you can create keyword loaded titles and descriptions. It seems so simple, and I agree. But we may as well take advantage when we can.

Also, don’t forget to add keywords to your captions, use words that you want to rank for…keyword it all. You should have them down by now, so just make a cheat sheet on Word or Excel to refer back to. You can even copy and paste some phrases. Repition will help your ranking, we promise!

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.