The date for all Facebook Pages to shift over to Timeline is fast approaching and TabSite has you covered!
Our team at TabSite has created a 2 page PDF that gives you the details you need to know and key tips for maximizing your new Facebook Timeline Page.
Covered are images sizes and best practices for all the new Timeline features.
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One of the benefits of the new Facebook Timeline for Pages layout is the much larger image call-out for each custom tab. Previously, tab navigation was limited to text with a little 16 x 16 icon.
Now with Facebook’s Timeline, each tab is represented by a large 111 wide x 74 high pixel image and TabSite has integrated the ability to load a custom image for each TabSite tab via the new TabSite Timeline Manager.
View of Custom Large Tab Image on a Facebook Page with Timeline:
View of TabSite Manager: Under the Tab section, click on the pencil next to the tab name. This reveals a drop down menu where you can select the “Edit tab logo 111 x 74”
The images you have uploaded for each tab large image area will appear in the TabSite Manager.
TabSite is pleased to offer this new Facebook Timeline convenience to all TabSite users.
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Here is information discussed during our March 14 Webinar:
Facebook’s Timeline for Pages offers marketers great opportunities! Here’s a Facebook Page easy image guide for the various components and image sizes in Timeline for fan pages from TabSite, the leader is Facebook Page promotion tools. The TabSite Team has created a 2013 revised Timeline Infographic to help you quickly and easily know the Facebook Image size! Here’s what’s covered:
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Originally posted in Business 2 Community as “Rethinking Fan Gating Strategies for Facebook’s New Timeline for Pages“, this is a updated version of that post.
This question has been asked across the web since the February 29 announcement and launch of Timeline for Facebook Pages.
At first glance it appeared fan gating was dead since the Timeline page with the large cover image is the mandatory default page and the former “Default Landing Page” drop down menu is gone on Timeline Pages.
Clearly, Facebook wants to drive traffic to the Timeline page and make the Timeline for Pages the centerpiece.
Facebook Tab apps have a unique url and if this unique url is used in promotions on the web, you can direct users directly to the tab app with the fan gating Like Gate active on it.
Formerly, most businesses that added Facebook Page links from their website, blog, and e-mail signatures, would simply have the icon link to their fan page by username such as www.Facebook.com/CKProducts, since you could control the default for new visitors you could have new visitors arrive on your Like Gate.
Header image from CK Products website which as social icons linked to social site urls:
In this case, a company like CK products, would want to switch out there Facebook icon url to a tab app url with a Like Gate like this one using TabSite’s Like Gate feature such as:
http://www.facebook.com/ckproducts/app_112493455447504
Then if a user clicks the social icon, they go to the Facebook Page with the image shown below.
SWEEPSTAKES and CONTESTS:
This will also be critical if you want the users to go to a specific tab to enter a Sweepstakes for example and you want them to “Like” the page prior to getting the entry form.
If users are on Facebook and use Facebook search to find your page, then they’ll still be taken to the Timeline default page. If they haven’t yet “Liked” your page and they see the Sweepstakes call-out they will still be . However, the vast majority of users come to your fan page via web links (typically over 80%!).
SUMMARY: So as noted, the url destination link you use for your Facebook icon on your website, blog, and in e-mail blasts becomes more important and strategic now with the launch of Timeline for Facebook Pages.
Be intentional about the url’s you use to drive people to your Facebook Page!
Want more information on the Timeline layout? See our Timeline Infographic.