Resources for Managing Your New Facebook Fanpage Layout

As you may have read in our previous post on the subject, this March 30th, all band and brand Facebook Fanpages are getting the compulsory switch over to the new timeline format. It’s quite a change, and while you can preview and play around with your new layout before it goes live later this month, there’s a lot of things to consider with not only the look but the functionability of your new page and how it’s going to be affected by the changes. Below are some great resources on the topic that we have gathered from around the web for you, check them out and you’ll have all the info you need to manage your new Facebook Fanpage like a rockstar.

• Kissmetric’s 28 Things You Need to Know about the New Facebook Pages is a very comprehensive guide to just about anything you could want to know about the new timeline pages and contains a lot of diagrams and accompanying images as well as instructions and incredibly useful information for managing your new page.

• Wildfire’s Top Tips for an Effective Timeline is a great PDF piece from Wildfire that is very brand-focused and filled with tips on how to use this new format to tell your brand’s story.

• Business Insider’s Facebook Fanpage Chanes: How to Highlight Your Custom Tabs   is all about the custom tabs, with the new changes to Fanpages, users won’t land on custom tabs anymore, effectively changing the game of custom ‘landing pages’ with incentives to click ‘like’ that many bands and brands had been implementing to much success, but never fear this article is full of tips and tricks to get users to get into your custom tabs!

• All Facebook’s Facebook Ads Can Lead Directly to Tab Applications suggests a further way around the removal of the aforementioned ability to make custom landing pages by utilizing Facebook ads to drive users directly to the custom tabs.

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