The box with your Facebook page to follow is essential for your blog, this widget encourages people who visit your blog to join your fanpage and installs itself in no time.
This tutorial is useful for Blogger, blogsport, wordpress, html… come on, you can insert it almost anywhere that allows the insertion of HTML… even in emails you can put some models of followers box.
Promoting our blogs and ensuring that they have better visits from social networks is a challenge that we must take very seriously to improve the presence of our blogs on the internet:
Although Facebook does not treat pages well from time to time develops things for them. This post about reasons to switch from facebook…
This way of promoting the fanpage seems very successful because it attracts the blog public, who are more likely to interact with your post and create a better community than the traffic that comes from Facebook contests and tags.
Let’s choose the box design of our Facebook Fanpage:
The first thing you have to do is go to Facebook developers, this is the part of Facebook where we configure applications and obtain the permissions so that certain plugins can access the Facebook API.
In Facebook developers you will see the amount of plugins that Facebook has designed so that we can use them in any blog, without having to do experiments. You must put the name of the page and choose the parameters that adjust to what you want, for example in width and length of the box that will appear, because it is not the same to put it on one side than on a page.
There are several options and if your blog has dynamic views you should look for an option that is variable width so that it adapts better.
First choose the Facebook widget model you want to put:
In this case it is a very complete facebook page box: it shows the timeline of the latest Facebook posts and some followers, I do not recommend it because it loads a lot and if you have a post it can be a visual mess.
If you take away the timeline option, it looks much better.
This is the classic Facebook like and share box, this is one of the most used, it serves to attract followers of the page in a simple way. A design that is very liked and that is one of the ones that more subscribers engage is the one that shows the thumbnails of the photos of the friends who like this FB page. This is another very heavy variant of boxes for the sides, I do not recommend it unless your Facebook page has a lot of social weight, since it slows down the page load a lot and is not exactly the most visually attractive. Placing the like or follow box on Facebook
Once given get code it will show you a part like this which is where the SDK and the javascript appear separated from the html.