3 Important Things to Know About Facebook Pages
A new “feature” added by Facebook this week that is designed to help Facebook Page Admins get their pages up and running. When you create a new Facebook Page, then you’ll see a Tab called “Getting Started” right before the Wall tab. On this tab, Facebook suggests you create status updates, link your page to your mobile device and to link it with your Twitter account. While this a good effort on Facebook’s part to help new Page Admins learn how to easily update their pages, however for people who have created many different pages and who are familiar with the process, it can be bothersome. There is a small “?” on the Getting Started Tab which explains two things:
1) The Getting Started Tab is only visible page admins
2) The Tab will disappear on it’s own once you have entered the basic information, post updates and build a fan base.
Others have noted that the tab will also disappear if you update the page, link it to your mobile device and link to your Twitter account.
The second thing to keep in mind when creating a Facebook Page is choose the title of the page carefully. At this time, Facebook does not allow for the changing of the name of your Facebook page once you have created the page. I’ve seen and heard of some pages successfully petitioning Facebook to change the name of their page, but this has typically been for pages with either quite a bit of influence or have over 10,000 fans. If you plan to re-brand or change the name or nature of your business at some point, you might consider going with a more general broad title for the name of your page. You can include some keywords in your title to help it get found in searches, but choose carefully.
And finally, once you have 25 fans or “likers” of your Facebook page, then you can go in and set your username/URL for your page to something short and memorable. This makes it much easier to share and promote the link to your Facebook page. As with the name of your page, once you’ve set the username/URL for your page you cannot change it, so choose carefully. Once you have 25 fans, you can choose your username here: http://facebook.com/username
Those are my three important tips for new Facebook Admins. What other tips would you suggest or what questions do you have about setting up a Facebook page?
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There is a backstory that your readers should know, that image you have posted did not exist until business page Admins began screaming at FB a week ago. I know, 177 of them were pouring their frustration into a single usergroup just 24 hours ago.
FB has never addressed the frustration they caused, and there still are page owners who are not satisfied this tab will work as promised. It needs to be pointed out, it never has worked as FB envisioned it, other than users who wanted the feature – used it. Admins who could not stand the thing, could not get any response.
As this is described, nothing more than a convenient tool, it does have its benefits. Only for those who intend to use it. Everyone else had not choice at all.
You couldn’t have written your story with that image 24 hours ago. It was the screaming and anger that made it happen.
Facebook messed up. They just won’t admit it.
Hi Joel,
Thanks for your input and the backstory on this. I agree there was (and is) quite a bit of frustration out there with users about how to get rid of this tab. And of course, it’s not unusual that Facebook implements something new that users bristle at. It does seem encouraging that Facebook has responded by listing this statement explaining the tab further. I don’t see that they would address this directly much as that’s not typically their style. Facebook continues to evolve and make changes to mostly benefit themselves and to further position themselves as an internet force to be reckoned with. However, they still remain a free platform for marketing and advertising and it’s always a choice to continue using or not. Next up will be dealing with the removal of boxes. I expected we’ll see similar outrage and frustration when that happens. I appreciate your comment and hope that you’ll come back often with comments and input.