How to add an interactive sidebar to your Facebook Page

facebook heart1 How to add an interactive sidebar to your Facebook PageCreating a lively, responsive Facebook fan base is much easier when you give them a Facebook Page that triggers interaction. Content will always be the best way to inspire engagement, but if your Facebook Page is clunky, visitors won’t find that content – and they’ll leave.

Clunky defined

  • When someone visits your Facebook Page and they see your information tab first, instead of the amazing photos of your last fundraising event.
  • When your best content is hidden behind the “plus” tab.
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  • When a fan arrives at a Tab meant for first time visitors.
  • When content is hard to find.

In order to remove the clunk, create an interactive sidebar so that visitors can quickly find exactly what they are looking for.

This step-by-step video shows you how.

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  • Thanks for the step by step....which is what I always need. We're constantly looking for ways to increase our exposure on Facebook, it's an exciting time to be marketing on the internet!
  • Awesome. Thanks so much for the help!
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  • Thanks for sharing, if I knew HTML code I would get right to it. Maybe one day:)
  • Go to techsoup.org and search the forum. You could also use a visual
    editor. Do you have a blog?
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  • michsineath
    Very helpful! But how do I rearrange that side bar now? For example, I'd like to delete a couple of boxes and slide a few up and down, etc.
  • Facebook limits where you can drag and drop the custom boxes - for now.
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    Looking forward to trying this - thanks!
  • Pia - you're welcome!
  • Sue
    I have been trying this and thanks to the blog suggestion got a link to our twitter in a tab with fbml but can't get a nice little box on the main page as you showed. Any thoughts on how to get that done?
  • What page?
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  • Very useful tutorial. Thank you. Do you have other useful Facebook tutorials?
  • Randy - yes I do. Under the navigation bar, see "Facebook Strategies"
  • Hello John,
    I was trying to add this our Library page and followed the directions and everything looked the same as your demo, but all I see is "Add to my Page's Favorites" when I try to add the static FBML. Do you have any idea why the "Add to My Page" link is not present? and how I might get it to show up. Thanks
  • Charles - it could be that you've either already added the FMBL app to your page OR you're not logged into the account that's the admin for the Facebook Page for which your trying to edit.
  • Bryan
    Thank you so much! This helped a lot.
  • susan
    thank you so much! that last step was what i was missing!!! thanks for putting this video together :)
  • Susan - anytime. What other screen cast recordings do you think would be useful?
  • Thanks John for this tutorial - I had been trying to figure out how to add tabs to the sidebar for a few days. @Sue - I had the same problem as you and just figured it out. If you already have a few boxes in your wall sidebar, click on one of the edit tabs (in the sidebar) and select "Move to boxes tab." That will take you to a page with all your available boxes, and from there, you can select an application to now move to your sidebar. Not sure if it's a case of too many boxes already being in your sidebar, but I had to remove some to place new ones there...
  • "Move to boxes tab" - that's how to do it.
  • Anna
    Thanks so much - extremely helpful!
  • Anna - you're very welcome!
  • I pondered for hours on how to resolve this. Thanks to your post, you made it easy! You saved me time and I gained valuable knowledge. Kudos.
  • You rock John! I just did this on my http://www.facebook.com/webinarlistings page (still tweaking though). Thanks!!
  • Nice work!
  • Thank you So Much!!
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