Facebook Trick

Facebook after giving more better options like displaying less unwanted ads on News Feed, launching of Deep Learning technique, etc for advertisers to improve their ads, now has announced that it will track users' mouse cursor movements. 

You may think that what is the main intention behind this change. Basically Facebook wants to study how you behave with any ad on your News Feed. Whether you hover over to know more with tool tips or think for some time before clicking on it. 

How a user behaves on screen when any ads are placed or any image containing ads are displayed will be tracked by Facebook. When ads are displayed on the News Feed, sometimes users feel it is interesting and would want to know more about that ad, the user will move the mouse cursor to hover over the ad and wait for some time. 

For how many seconds or minutes your cursor hovers over the image or any photo will be tracked by Facebook. 

Also before clicking on "Like" option below any photo, what your mouse cursor does is also known. By this the behavior of the person using will be known. 

Till now Facebook has studied your clicks, likes and comments, to make some improvements in the ad placements and better ad products. To make it more better, understanding users' mind is important. And hence the use of special technique of "mouse cursor" will decide. 

How you hover your cursor over any advertisement and if you click on it, then what your cursor does will be evaluated for making more engaging News Feed layouts and ads.

Purely to study the behavior of its users for "AD related" images and photos, this technique will be used. Facebook users' personal data will not be tracked or used. The main intention behind this will be to improve the ad campaigns, ad images and ad placements.

Interesting change and addition in Facebook Home!! According to the Facebook newsroom, four hot new photo sharing sites added to Facebook. The new additions in Facebook Home are Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest. Today, it was announced by Facebook, that this feature will begin testing within "Facebook for Android Beta" version.

There was a new update related to Android's Facebook Messenger app this month. So two new updates for Android users.

When you wake up in the morning and swipe Facebook Home app, with that now you will get these four apps to swipe through and get along. Now swiping through photos from Facebook Home app with Flickr, Instagram , Tumblr and Pinterest.

To get this facility, you need to update both "Facebook for Android" and "Facebook Home for Android".

Android users will get an updated Facebook experience with a fresh new look and new items added. 

 

  

 What will the updated version present to you : 

 

 

 

 

To get the app, you need to download the latest app from "Android Market". 

 

 

This update will be first tested on with few people and then will be on the floors. 

Business fan pages need a tab for customers to contact them whenever needed. In that case, creating a "Contact Tab" and adding "Google Maps" link is the best way. 

Your fan page will specify your contact details like email and contact number. But to get the geo-location on fan page will be a great way to show map of your exact location. 

Prior to adding Google Maps in fan page, first you have to add "Contact Tab" to your page. To do so: 

 After completing the full process, your map with the exact location will be flagged when you click on "Contact Tab". 

 

 

A good news for sellers and advertisers. Now you can create a online store in Facebook with the help of "StoreYa" app in Facebook. 

 

With this app, you can create your Facebook store and start selling today. 

The main feature of this app is it lets anyone to create a Facebook store without the use of third party applications. 

• Open www.Storeya.com on the separate tab in your browser
• Sign up using your Facebook account
• Choose "Paypal" as your preferred platform
• Create "Categories" 
• Upload products 
• Set checkout settings
• Now connect your store to Facebook

 

A professional fan page needs as many tabs as possible for engaging their visitors. Fan pages are meant to get more fans and viewers for your product.

 

As "online marketing" is becoming more and more advanced today, one should know every bit of the marketing in your fan pages. 

Your service or product as it needs custom tabs like welcome tab, recent tweets, LiveChat tab, form tab, Quiz tab etc, it also needs a tab that can engage your visitors to post their views and know about others. That is called as "Forum Tab". 

In forums, you can make a platform available where your fan page visitors will get a chance to say something about it and get others' opinion.This is nothing but creating a "Discussion board" in simple terms. 

 

 

For creating a forum or a discussion platform for your fans, app called "Forum for Pages" is used.

Main features of this app are: 

• Threaded discussions
• Deep linking
• Page owners can post as their page
• Users who post in the forum are allowed to edit their posts upto 2 hours after posting in forum
• Posting is restricted to fans only 
• Search for a specific topic
• Anyone can link to the post
• Available in different languages like English, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian

 

• Log in to your account
• Type "Forums for Pages" in the Graph Search
• Select the page from the list below
  
• Click on "Add Page Tab" 
• You can see now that the page is asking you to create a "New Topic" 
  
•  Click on "New Topic" and now enter the topic title and description or a simple question to start. 
  
• And now hit "Post" 

Now your forum's first discussion topic is posted. Visitors when they will arrive they will enter their answers or thoughts.

Inform your visitors that you have created a forum section in your fan page for forums to start slowly.

 

In Facebook, you can have an option of letting visitors directly find more about your product in your original website. To make them find out something extra about your product or fan page, you can add a "Landing page" to it. 

As the name suggests, it is a web page that redirects your visitors when they click on it to your original page which has more information. 

It is used more for giving other information about your fan page or a specific topic. When you add this page to your fan page, your fans will get an extra information for which they are searching for. 

The key ingredients in a perfect landing page are : 

 

 Facebook fan pages can add Static iFrame tabs for creating such type of landing pages. 

Facebook recently introduced "Auto Play" videos feature in News Feed last month, now has come up with a new direction for ads. That is "Video Ads" which will be available in Facebook Apps on Android and iOS devices. 

Videos will be coming to mobile apps in ad products.  It will give you ti install ads option, making the advertisers to make more money based on CPA (Cost Per Action). 

According to Radu Margarint (Facebook's Software Engineer), "Video creative has proven to be an effective way to drive engagement in news feed, and we look forward to helping developers use their video creative to find new app installs".

Tagging feature in Facebook lets you flag someone in your posts and comments. When you "Tag" your friend, actually it means you are creating a link to their timeline. With this effect, they get informed about their flagging in your posts. Another way to inform him or her that you are mentioned in one of your posts. 

Many a times there are some spam applications or fake profiles in Facebook, that tag you even when you have not added them in your friends list. This is a spam and a serious issue that should not be ignored. 

Immediate actions will clear spams. 

Facebook lets you like, comment and share for any post you really find interesting. If that post is really a good post then many Facebook users will automatically will comment on it. Commenting will make it more popular post and everyone will find it why it is so popular. 

At the end, that post if gets more than 1 billion comments and you have also commented on it. Can you find your comment later when you are searching for yours out of 1 billion comments? 

The steps that you will take for searching your comment is clicking on "View More comments" option below. But will that option display your comment! Yes if it was the recent one it will definitely display. Moreover "View more comments" option display the next 50 comments and so again you will have to click for that option to search. It is a tedious, time consuming and tiring process.

At that time one option strikes in our mind is "Google". But Facebook has comments and there is no link between your comments in Facebook and Google Search. It is just a weird thought.

But there has to be a solution for finding comments in the heap of comments. 

The best Facebook trick that works in a fraction of a second for finding comments is using "Binary Search".

When you create a "Fan Page" in Facebook, FB gives a unique id for it. That id is different for different page. 

That unique id is created by default in Facebook and when you change the name of the Fan page, it gets hidden. Means that the name appears of the page when opened but the unique id is not seen. 

The simple way to find out your Fan page id is: 

• Click on the Fan Page "Edit Settings" option
• Select "Page Info" tab, the first tab that appears when you open settings
  
• Below of the screen you can see the "Facebook Page ID". That is the one you were finding out

In the above image, the id is of my fan page "Facebook Tips, tricks, hacks and news".  You can find out for your page id from your Facebook account.

A professional Facebook Fan Page consists of all the necessary ingredients to increase its fan base. When it is so professional and has a lot of genuine fans who visit your page for something new, then better to keep a copy of it in the form of a file. The fan page can be converted to any type of file online. 

The need for converting any fan page into a file format like document or PDF, is to keep the important information with you and you can distribute to others who are unknown about your fan page. Then sometimes it becomes a priority to send the file by emails. 

By sending emails to other Facebook users, lets you gain some more online presence and gain popularity for your fan page. 

Planning to "Host" an "Event" and want it to be successful online too? Social media platform like Facebook is the best place to create and host an event. 

You can create events based on the type of event. If there is a birthday party or a marriage invitation or any party of successfully completing 20 years in your office, etc, you can arrange an event based on them. 

In Facebook, to create an event: 

A very simple method to send an invitation to your friends and family for any party or event. 

Note: while creating an event, you have to choose the Privacy option that lets you choose either friends or guests of friends option. This option will let you invite a big audience to attend. 

What is the main intention of creating a "Fan Page", of course to get more visitors to your page and subscribers who can directly visit your fan page instead of searching your blog in Google. And moreover if your blog is not in the top of the Google Search Results, then it is difficult to get readers to your blog. 

When you create a blog or a website, it should be well optimized and well updated with fresh content. Again here "Search Engine Optimization" will be a major task to do so. If you want good amount of visitors to your blog, then using some social widgets will definitely get required results. 

If you have a blog then SEO is needed to bring  it on the top of Google. If you are unaware of deep knowledge of it then adding a simple widget in your blog will bring some good amount of visitors. Again the promotion of your fan page is necessary to make them aware of your page that it exists. 

There are different types of social plugins available in Facebook that you can use for blogs and websites. One of them that is used widely by bloggers and website owners is "Fan Like Box" means a like box which displays the name of the fan page and how many visitors have liked your page. 

Today, your online presence is judged by how many likes and how many subscribers to your page in Facebook. 

• Log in to your Facebook account
• Go to "Developers" page in Facebook. 
• The list of plugins are displayed
• Select the "Like Box" plugin 
  
• Now you need to get the code that has to be embedded in your blog. To get the code, enter your fan page URL in the box provided (See image below)
  
  
• Then select the boxes of your choice if you want to "Show the Friends' faces" and other options if you want to display in the like box widget on your blog
• Likewise the preview is shown below of the screen when you make changes 
• After all things done, click on "Get Code" button
• And you will get the code. Copy it. 

Now the next step is to add the widget in blog.


In your blog, if you are using "Blogger.com", 

• Go to "Layout" tab
• Select "Add a Gadget" option 
• Select "HTML script" gadget 
• Now paste the code copied here
• Click on "Save"
• And click "Save Arrangement" button at the top of the layout window

Now, your blog will have the widget of "Fan Page Like Box" at the place where you selected the gadget. You will get the details of the fan page like the name of the fan page, how many likes etc.


Recently announced about the changes to be made for "Like" and "Share" buttons. These two will be seen besides each other for making any website or article more shareable for traffic generation.

More details you will get at : "Like and Share buttons to get a fresh new look".

How many times do you share other pages, or like their pages? When was the last time you really have seen that your Facebook News Feed is de-cluttered and needs to be cleaned unwanted items or feeds? 

Every time you see any impressive page or interesting thing, we naturally share and it gets shared on your News Feed. Sometimes, your unwanted friend requests are always displayed in the notifications area which you have not yet seen!!!!!

Messy News Feeds have to be always cleaned and decluttered when it is not needed.

There are different ways you can keep unwanted stuff away from your News Feed. Once you log in to your Facebook account in the morning, literally it feels messy when unwanted things are displayed. Instead of using the fact, "A stitch in time saves nine", the things are left unchanged. These pile up and bring more and more unwanted stuff to your feeds. 

Better to keep them away and watch and go through a clean and tidy feed experience. 

Decluttering your Facebook feeds will give you a better experience of using the social networking. 

 

If you own a Facebook fan page, then there should be some more information about the page you admin. Like polls, contests, videos, tweets,  your Pinterest pins, etc. This relates to some more tabs on your fan page. There is a facility to add these tabs on your page.

Your present fan page is a page which has text , images , links, videos, likes and comments. Now if you want to add some more stuff to engage in your visitors and fans and stick to your fan page to look for some more updates, then there should be "Custom Tabs" that should be installed. 

The "Tabs" can be installed with the help of "Static iFrame" tab in Facebook. 

 

Designed by WooBox, you will get a new set of tabs that can be installed in your Facebook page. If you are the "Admin" of that page, set some different types of tabs that will display more stuff about your fan page in details. 

These "Tabs" are nothing but your "Promotional Apps" on page. Different types of tabs that you can add to your page are, polls, contests, coupons, sweepstakes, deal, group deal, rewards, etc. 

Your page visitors will also enjoy visiting your page again and again if tabs like polls, contests and fresh content is frequently added. 

So to engage more fans to your page, add some tabs with the use of "Static iFrame " tab or app.

If you want your Twitter feeds also to display when a user wants to know your recent tweets, then you can add this custom tab to your page too. 

• A Facebook Fan Page
• You should be "Admin " of that page
• You should know how to use "Graph Search" option in Facebook

When you have all these ingredients ready with you, then you can start with your mission of creating iFrame tabs on fan page.

• Log in to your Facebook account
• Go to your fan page 
• Either by using "Graph search" you can type "Static iFrame Tab" which will lead you to the installing of the tab or directly you can type "Woobox.com" in your new browser tab and then follow the instructions.
  
• To start creating and adding tabs, first grant the permission to Woobox.com to access your details. 
• If you have used "Graph Search" then directly go to the app and click "Install Page Tab" and this will direct you further to "Add Page Tab" and choose the fan page where you want to add tabs.
  
• Choose the fan page from the drop down list and click the button.
• Then change the settings in "Tab Settings"and click "Save Settings" . This will add the type of tab to your page. 

You can see the tab added besides the "About section" of the page. 


The process of adding static iFrame tabs will be made more easier when you directly go to "WooBox.com" website and select the type of tab that has to be added.

A new tool, "Stories to Share", has been launched by Facebook recently. The objective is to make publishers and media sites engage more viewers on their fan page. 

The publishers' Facebook fan page will suggest content from their sites that they may wish to share with their followers. This tool will appear in the "Insights" section on the fan page. Insights is a tool which displays the graph of your page visitors. 

The "Stories to Share" tool will share the news and stories from the sites of the publishers in their fan pages. This will make a big impact for their customers to engage more on their stories and other news. 

According to Simple Reach, Facebook is the largest driver of social traffic.

The news or stories from media sites will be shared on their Facebook Fan page. At present this tool is in the test mode and will be soon implemented. This is another major tool that will drive more traffic to news and publishing sites. 

For example, CNN.com will suggest its most happening news or stories on their Facebook Page to let their visitors know what is the latest news and latest happenings.

To share the news to more people, the tool "Stories to Share" will share or suggest the latest feed in the Insights Dashboard of fan page of any publishing site if they are the "Admin" of that page.

Facebook users like to play and enjoy when they are accessing. They come for fun , for sharing, etc. Some people like to make fun of each other, some like to share their recent images and videos, etc. 

If you think of adding some interesting and spicy items in your Facebook page or your timeline, then adding or creating a "Quiz" is the best option. 

Have fun filled, humorous or intelligent quizzes for your friends so that they also can enjoy while scratching their heads to get an answer for your quiz. 

Some IQ tests will assess your friends' knowledge. 

In a way it is just for knowing IQ. You can create a quiz in Facebook fan page too, to engage your visitors and followers for improving your page quality. The visitors will share your page to others and will bring more visitors to your page. 

Have you created one ??? Great!!! Just share here too. 

Facebook lets its users to take the most out of it. With sharing photos, videos, images, events and other stuff in Facebook, you can have your whole family at a single place. That is called as "Family Tree". 

Starting from your ancestors to the newly born kids , you can have them at single big platform where you can share with each other. The sharing will be limited for family only. Hence the app, "Family Tree". 

Here you will find all your family members' photos in one place. Due to this, all members from your family will be able to see "family-only" photos and other stuff. Moreover you can generate your own "Interest Wheel" and share with your relatives. An important part in this tree is "Birthday Calendar" which will remind you about others birthdays on that specific date. 

If you want to have all your family members at one single place just like we keep a set of files in a folder, then you have to set up a family tree in your Facebook account.

To create a "Family Tree" :

Look the images that will guide you through the process of creating a Family Tree in Facebook. 

Note:  After the selected member accepts your request, he or she will be added in your tree.



In this way, you can add family members in your tree.