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How can I make a website like facebook for free?

When a user 'likes' a page on your website, can you automatically make them 'like' your site's Facebook Page as well?

  • It's valuable to your get site visitors to like your Facebook Page, because then your Facebook Page's updates are pushed into those visitors' news feeds -- and as I understand it this is the only way to push updates into their news feeds.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong about this: see .)  Proceeding on that assumption... When a site visitor likes a page on your site, it would be valuable to make them like your Facebook Page as well so you can reach them via their newsfeed.  Is there any way to make this happen automatically?  I thought that it might be sufficient to add a "fb:page_id" meta tagto the header of my website's pages, but this does not seem to have the desired effect.

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    You can't do it as well or force it automatically - nor should you - but it's easy enough to customize the Like button on any website (or web page) so that when a visitor clicks on it they Like the brand's Facebook Page, as opposed to the website itself (which is, in my opinion, pretty useless in comparison). As you say, this is far more valuable to the brand, as once a visitor Likes the Facebook Page they will start to receive your updates in their News Feed. Whereas Liking the website itself essentially changes nothing, and is soon forgotten. It's important that you let visitors know what they're Liking - any attempt to 'trick' them into Liking a Facebook Page Like will almost always backfire. I recommend this for the majority of my clients, and we customize the Facebook social plugin box accordingly. Example here: http://www.modelsownit.com/ (see bottom right of the homepage.)

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No, you can't do it automatically. Actually i can't see a reason to do so. If your Facebook Page offers good value/content, too let the user decide if he "follows" you on Facebook, too. Regarding to your Meta Data question: you can't find all details here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph Even if you would replace the og:url with a link to your Facebook Page (not even sure this works) you can't make to user to automatically like your Page. The Facebook updates would then say "User XY like Entry XY on YOURWEBSITE" and clicking on YOURWEBSITE would link the your Facebook Page instead of your Website, but even this wouldn't result in a automatic-like.

Lars Schwarz

I agree, it might not be the best idea. It would be smart to alert them to the fact that they are Liking your brand's page on Facebook. All you have to do is enter the URL of your Facebook page (I.e. - http://Facebook.com/tractionokc) into the URL field on the Like Button page - http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like - then implement the code.

Tyler Smith

Just from a marketers perspective this can backfire on you too if enough people see you are doing something that they did not intend.  I think it's better to motivate them with enticing messages to WANT to like the page.  This is all about your content strategies and call to action messages.

Michael Newman

You can do this - Crowdbooster did it. I think it's just changing the object ID of the Like button so it's the object ID of your fan page. There are actually several ways to architect the "like" button, hierarchy across your site, and each one has its own pluses and minuses. Remember though that both fan pages and open graph "likes" can both publish newsfeed stories to the people who clicked "like", so status updates aren't a good reason to do this.

Jeff Widman

No, there is no way to like two "objects" of the OpenGraph at the same time. Some people place the like buttom pointing to the fanpage, so every time a user  think is liking "an artile"  is liking the fan page. People can notice that you are cheating, and it can affect your credibility. I don't recommend you do to this!

José Medrano

You can definitely do this just by replacing the url to like by the one of your fanpage. i see this on more and more webpages and campaigns-pages. but in my opinion this is a strategy which misleads your customers as they dont <like> what they have in front of them e.g. intend to like. what you could do is put a like-button your page with a clear call to action so people will understand that they will like your fanpage. you will even get stats in the insights of your fanpage for your like-button.

Dominique Candik

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