Facebook is a social media website where people can follow you, you can post messages add pictures and promote your business and your self to your freinds and customers. It allows your business to constantly interact with your customers keeping them loyal to your company and allowing them to see where you are, what you are up to, your latest features, products, news and offers.

So how can I integrate Facebook to help my business?

Well the simplest way is to link to your Facebook profile from your website, this is the quickest and easiest way to help your visitors find you and follow you. Click either of our Facebook links in our header and footer, or go to Specnet's Facebook page, to see a real example of this.

These plugins are idea for letting your website visitors drive traffic to your website for you and can see a large amount of traffic being delivered straight to your web pages as a result.

But Facebook has many plugins that Specnet can integrate into your website for you and we will explore these below so you can see which is the best one for your needs.

So what Facebook Plugins are available to go on my website?

Facebook Like button and Facebook Send button

Facebook's Like button and Send Button lets your website visitors share your pages with their friends on the Facebook website or to send your content to their friends for you. When your visitors click the Like button on your website, a link will appear on all of their friends News Feed with a link back to your website. Thus showing how powerful this can be alone to drive traffic to your pages as some people have over 1000 friends on the Facebook website.

Like this page below to see a real life example of how this works, or alternatively use the send button to send a message to someone.

Facebook comments

Facebook comments are perfect if you want to enable your users to comment on your web pages as it allows your users to interact with your website and it also allows you to moderate their comments. These comments can then be shared with friends of the people who commented on your web page allowing your website to get in front of more people at no extra work by yourself.

Facebook recent activity

Facebook recent activity allows your users to see what pages have been liked recently on your website by your other website visitors who have clicked you’re like buttons. This is a great way to allow your users to find content that they wouldn't of otherwise liked or knew existed.

Facebook Recommendations

Facebook Recommendations allows your website users to see what your other users have recommended to their friends and colleagues about your website.

Facebook Like Box

Facebooks Like box allows your site visitors to see the people who have all ready liked your Facebook page as well as showing your latest posts and comments off your Facebook wall. This is ideal to show your visitors why they should like your Facebook page and what other people are saying about you and if any of their friends have also joined up to follow you on Facebook.

Facebook Facepile

Facebook's Facepile will show you all the users Facebook Profile pictures who have liked the web page it is placed on. If your web pages are liked a lot this is a great way to show your other website visitors the other people who have liked your web page. See below for an example of this (You will need to be logged into your Facebook account to view this, once logged in refresh this page.):

If you would like any of the above Facebook social plugins placed on your website, then contact Specnet today and we will help upgrade your website with Facebook add ons.

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