How to Add Facebook Like box to Blogger Blog

If you had read my previous post, you would know why and how to retain visitors to blog. In that article, I told you how to retain your visitors to your blog via Email or RSS feed which is 1st method between the two. 2nd method is retaining visitors to your blog via social networking such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter etc. In this article, you will know how to keep your visitors coming back to your blog with the help of Facebook fan page. It will also Increase blog traffic via Facebook.

To add Google plus/Twitter button, follow these links-

How to Add Twitter Follow Button to Blogger
How to Add Google Plus One Button to Blogger Blogs

Why you should add Facebook Like Box to blogger blog

Personally, I prefer retaining visitors to blog through the Facebook fan page. Day by day the number of Facebook users is increasing rapidly. To realize it just look at your friends, or even you. They pass more time in Facebook than email. So it’s easy to tell your visitors about your blog through Facebook. They can also stay connected with your blog through Facebook just like Email subscription method. As Facebook is becoming more popular day by day, they like this method more than Email subscription. It's much easier than Email subscription because they only have to click a "Like" button in your blog's Facebook fan page. This is similar to other Facebook pages or groups.

How Facebook Like Box works

In this method, you have to create a Facebook fan page for your blog and show it on your blog. When your audience sees a Facebook fan page's "Like" button, they will click on it. Just like other Facebook pages or groups, they will get notifications, when you post something on your fan page. They will also be able to see that post in their news feed. But to do so, you have to share the link of your post on your fan page and immediately they will get a notification. That means when they check this notification, they may visit your site through that link. And if their Facebook account is connected to their email, they will also get an email for your fan page post.

There is another advantage of using a Facebook fan page. Even when you don't publish new content in your blog, you can keep your audience busy through your Facebook fan page. You can simply post funny stuff in your page or ask them which type of articles they expect from you and how much they like your articles. Just enjoy some moments with them. In this way, they will come close to you and they will like your articles more.

But don't forget one thing. Don't act like blog publicity is everything to you. Just be friendly sometimes. Don't do anything which irritates people. Don't share same link multiple times in your fan page. It's called spamming which is bad for search engine ranking.

What you have to do

First of all you have to create a Facebook fan page.
The, you have to create your Facebook Like Box and take the HTML code.
Using the code, you have to put a Facebook like box on your blog sidebar.

How to Add Facebook Like box to Blogger Blog

Step by Step

Step 1

I will discuss about how to create a Facebook fan page in another post. It is not very hard. Just like other Facebook Page, you have to create a page for your blog/site.

Step 2

At the beginning of this step you have to visit Facebook social plugins page. To do it, visit this page- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin

Now from left side bar select “Page plugin”. Now, you can see few blank fields. You have to change the settings. You can look at my settings from following image.

Remove URL from Facebook Page URL field. Copy your Facebook Fan Page URL and Paste it here. To get fan page URL, open your Facebook Fan Page. Now check address bar of your browser. It is fan page’s URL. Copy it.

From here you can also adjust your like box’s width and height. You can also see preview in this page. You can see “timeline” text under “Tabs” section. It will show your fan page’s timeline in your like box. If you don’t want to show timeline, remove “timeline” text. You can also change other options such as Use Small Header, Hide Cover Photo and Show Friend's Faces.