May 2011
Beginner
408 pages
10h 27m
English
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Linking Facebook Users as Admins on Your Web Site
As I mention in the list of OGP tags, one tag you can add to your list of meta tags is the fb:admins tag. This is an underused but powerful tag that you can use to now publish updates to any and all users who have “liked” a specific page on your Web site. It also specifies who can view analytics (Facebook Insights) for Facebook users who visit that specific page.
Consider an example from my blog. If you go to staynalive.com/articles/strategy-build-relationships and view the source, you can see that I've added the fb:admins meta tag at the top. My Facebook ID is one of those admins in the content portion of the tag:
<meta property="fb:admins" content="683545112" />
Now, whenever I visit that page on StayNAlive.com when I'm logged in to Facebook, I see a small Admin Page link below the Like button.(See Figure 6-12.) If I click that link, I'm taken to a page on Facebook.com that looks a lot like a Facebook Page. I'm the only person who can see this page (and any other admin I specify in the fb:admins tag).
Figure 6-12: If I'm the admin and I visit an article with the fb:admins tag in the source, I see an Admin Page link like this.
On this page on Facebook.com (see Figure 6-13), I can post updates, view Insights, and see a few other things. This is where it gets fun. Now, just like on any other Facebook Page, I can post updates to ...
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