How To Get More Facebook Likes

by Yaro Starak, creator of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

Facebook Fan Page Generator Review (WordPress Plugin)

A few months ago, I made the decision to start a Facebook Fan Page. Obviously, Facebook is a major player in the online space. It’s where over 700 Million people spend a bunch of time, and it’s the site that people spend the most amount of time on. Even more than the “Big G” (Google). It made sense for me to get my Biology Website in front of their eyes.

So, like I do whenever I try to get into any new venture, I decided to do some research. In my research, I wanted to look at people who were successful in setting up pages, getting people to like their pages and having meaningful interactions with their fans. Since I like to take things in Bite-sized chunks, I decided to attack the part of getting people to like my page first.

The Famous “Like-Reveal”

One of the things I realized with many of the pages I was checking out was that they implemented what’s called a “Like-Reveal“. That’s where you visit a Fan Page, and all it shows you is what you will get when you like the page. It presents you with some offer, but you cannot get the offer until you become a fan. What does that do? Well, it causes you to click on the “Like” button IF the offer is compelling enough.

From the time I saw that, I decided that I HAD TO include that on my Fan Page. So, I started looking for a way to do it. In doing so, I found a bunch of resources that allowed you to do it. Now, I’m a guy that used to be into HTML very much. I used to do it for fun. Then I learned about WordPress and started to kick HTML to the curb, piece by piece.

The first thing I found were instructions on how to set it all up. It involved installing Static FBML, Creating and Designing the tab, adding in some code, inserting the stuff you want shown first, then inserting the stuff you wanted to reveal and eventually having it all set up. Then, of course, whenever you want to make a change, you would have to go back into the code, edit it, and save. After doing a bunch of reading, I decided that there had to be a better way. So, back to Google I went.

Then I found services that you could sign up for, pay a monthly subscription fee, and design it easily. This seemed like a very good option, and I was very close to signing up for it. But then I found something else, that made me much more excited . . .

The Facebook Fan Page Generator For WordPress

The Facebook Fan Page Generator is a wordpress plugin that you can install, that allows you to use the features of WordPress that bloggers are very much used to, to design your Facebook Fan Page, with the “Like-Reveal” feature included. Here’s How it Works:

• Step 1: Install the Facebook Fan Page Generator for WordPress. This process is exactly the same as installing any other WordPress Plugin.
• Step 2: Create a Facebook App in Facebook. This is similar to what you would do to include Facebook Comments or any other Facebook-related features to your WordPress installation.
• Step 3: Attach your wordpress site to Facebook.
• Step 4: Create your page in WordPress. On the page that you create, their will be a Fan Page Settings box where you include your Facebook App ID.
• Step 5: Specify what parts of the page you want to show to someone who doesn’t like your page and which parts you want to reveal to those who like your page by using short codes, or by simply clicking on the buttons that are made available in your editor, after installing the Plugin.

That’s pretty much it (although, it doesn’t necessarily have to go in that specific order). There are two short instruction videos (total of less than seven minutes) to show you how to do each step of the process.

What I Did For My Fan Page

When I was thinking about what I should do with my new “Like-Reveal” powers, there were two thoughts that came to mind:

1. I could put together a free eBook, and give it away to everyone who likes my page.
2. I could entice people with a video that they get to watch only if they like my page.

Of the two, the second option seemed much easier, especially since I had a cool intro video for my website that I got made on Fiverr. Being the Lazy person that I sometimes am, I decided to go with the easy option.

A little Background: My site is about taking complicated (and sometimes boring) topics in biology and make them fun, by making short, interesting videos that explain topics. My ideal target audience are Biology students who are struggling to understand these difficult topics. With that info, let’s move forward.

So here’s what I did:

First, I created two images with the intention of showing people that once you become a fan, biology becomes amazing You can see those images below:

Once that was done, I set up my page in WordPress, and used the shortcode buttons to specify that I wanted those images to show up for non-likers, and that I wanted my YouTube video to show up to those who actually like the page. I grabbed my YouTube embed code as you would normally do when inserting a video into a blog page. You can see how that is done in the following pic:

If you would like to see the finished product check out my Interactive Biology Fanpage. You can click “Like” to see what happens after you like the page, and how it all comes together. Don’t worry, when you are finished, you can unlike my page and my feelings won’t be hurt. It’s all for demonstration purposes.

Are There Any Downsides?

There’s one slightly negative thing I’ve noticed with the plugin. It seems like, because Facebook is pulling from another site (your site) to get the content for the page, it takes SLIGHTLY longer for the info to be displayed. I conducted a test where I looked at a page that was similar to mine. That page took on average around 1.2 seconds to load. However, mine took around 2.2 seconds to load. Yeah, I know. I’m being picky. But I’ve gotten so used to instant, that I do notice those things, so I decided to share that with you. Not a deal breaker, but just something I noticed.

In Summary

The Facebook Fan Page Generator is a very handy tool for any blogger who has a Facebook Fan Page, or thinking about starting one. Since becoming familiar with WordPress, I pretty much use it for all of my sites. Being able to use it to make my Facebook Fan Page seemed like a no brainer for me personally. It’s the tool I will be using for all of my fan pages (unless I find something better in the future).

Click here to Check Out the Facebook Fan Page Generator Plugin

All the best with your Fan Page!

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