I’m sure you’ve seen them – Facebook Fan Page Welcome Pages; specially created pages with images and links to your website the first time you hit someone else’s Facebook Fan page. Well, here’s how to create one for your own Facebook Fan Page.
First off, this is for your Fan Page and not your personal profile. The welcome page you create will only be visible to people who are not your fans yet. When they fan you, or now “like” you as Facebook has changed the descriptor from “fan me” to “like”, they will be directed to your wall and won’t see your welcome page again on entry.
Welcome pages can be great to give an overview of your business, link to important information about you, showcase products or services, or even direct customers to your online store.
Here are the steps to follow to set up your own Welcome Page.
1. Make sure you are logged into your Facebook account and are on your Fan Page administration page. This page will start with Settings, Wall Settings, Mobile, and then Applications just to name a few. Under “More Applications” click the “Static FBML” Link. Follow the link and click on the new Facebook page that appears to add this to your page.
2. Click back into the manage your page section again and look for a new item in your page management control panel that is called FBML. Click edit. A new screen opens that is titled FBML. Change this to a one word or two word header such as Shop Now or Welcome. This name will appear on your Facebook tab, so it has to be short.
3. In the page content enter your information. You can either create a line break between paragraphs by using simple html code such as <p> before each paragraph and ending with </p> after each paragraph or pushing enter to create the needed white space.
4. For web users who know their way around a bit of html you can link in images using html code and a complete URL from an image hosted on your own website’s server, and even link to pages or products using html code as well. If this part is over your head, you should get your webmaster involved. This page does not take complex html code only very simple elements such as images or links. That being said you can liven up the experience using html and image elements on this page.
5. lick “save changes”. You are not done yet, but almost. Navigate back now to your edit fan page control panel and then “Wall Settings” go to view settings. Under “Default Landing Tab for Everyone Else” select your new Welcome or Shop Now page from the drop down. Voila, now when a new possible friend/fan comes to your Facebook Fan page for the first time, they will see your Welcome page.
If this sounds too complicated for you, you may want to consider paying us to set this up for you. You can visit our Facebook Fan page for pricing and Fan page management levels.