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

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!

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.

Add Your RSS Feed to Notes

Now that you have your Facebook page up and running, you are going to want to add the RSS feed of your blog to your “Notes”. This will allow those who are following you see when your blog is updated by a simple glance at your wall. Pretty easy way to keep your fans updated.

1. Add the Notes Application to your profile, and then click on Notes tab.

2. Once on the Notes page, click on “Write a Note”

3. From there, click on the Notes icon at the top of the page.

4. Click “Import a blog” under “Notes Settings”.

5. Enter the feed URL of our blog.

6. Click continue.

7. Within your profile’s Applications setting page, click “Edit settings” next to the Notes application. Configure how you’d like the feed to appear on your wall.

8. Click “Okay” and navigate back to your wall to see the latest blog post.

Now you will have your Facebook page in sync with your blog. Those who follow your Facebook page will now be able to know when you add new content to your website.