Are you going the wrong way about liking Facebook pages? I was.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Let me explain ...
Like most of us bloggers I have a Facebook Business Page - you can find me here @made by ChrissieD.
Here's how to 'like' a Facebook page the wrong way:
If you have your own fb business page and you've 'liked' my fb page while working on fb as your business page then you didn't really 'like' my page at all and I don't have a clue that you've ever been so kind as to click 'like'.
I've had my fb business page for 2 years now and during that time I've been happily clicking 'like' on all your lovely pages and enjoying reading about you in my feed. Just like me, what most of us don't realise is that if we click 'like' with our fb business page hat on then this 'like' doesn't count and not only does it not increase the 'like' count for the other business but the business page owner isn't notified of your 'like' either.
I only heard this information nugget last week, did my research and discovered it was true.
I only heard this information nugget last week, did my research and discovered it was true.
Here's how you should be 'liking':
The only way to make a fb business page 'like' count and to increase the 'like' numbers on someone else's fb business page is to click 'like' with your fb personal page hat on.
Issues I have with 'liking' correctly:
1: I've been trying hard to run my business on facebook separately to my personal fb page and I've enjoyed having both a business news feed and a personal news feed. This last week I have given in and gone through my business 'liked' list and replicated all my 'likes' on to my personal fb page. I've no good answer to the news feed issue - my suggestions are to either be very selective with who you choose to 'like' or to hide news from anyone that you're not so keen to see regularly, neither method is terribly satisfactory.
2: Most of us don't know the real names of the other bloggers we follow so how will each of you know it's me visiting when you see a 'like' from Chris Dodsley - I've got round this by leaving a comment on the page that looks like this:
This way my fb business page link also appears in my comment and you can click through and return the 'like' if you want to.
The good news:
Within minutes, actually more like seconds, of hitting those personal 'likes' the 'likes' started to flood back, it's quite heartening really to see how willing people are to reciprocate the 'like' when they know you're following them too.
Take time to leave a few likes now and again and it helps us all to be more visible.
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