How to Create a Facebook Fan Page "Like" Hop

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Most of us have heard of a Blog Hop or adding a Linky to our Blogs to create a Blog Hop.  A special thank you goes out to the original creator of the Blog Hops, Mr. Brent Riggs for creating this wonderful tool!


The other day I was reading his MckLinky Blog and one of his users created a Facebook Linky Hop! What a brilliant idea. Blog Hops are all over the place but I hadn't seen a Facebook Hop.


Jodi Friedman has a Photography Challenge and is using the Linky Tool on her Facebook Page. If you are a Photographer there is still time to link up, through 3/1/2012!


So I decided that I wanted to have a Facebook Fan Page "Like" Hop. Just like our blog hopping but now using the URL to our Facebook Fan Pages instead.


If you have a Fan Page, you are welcome to link up from here too!



My light bulb moment or as Oprah has coined it, "Aha! Moment", was when I soon figured out that the only way to add this code to my page was using an HTML application. DUH!

Steps:

• Go to Facebook and type html in the search field. I chose the first one because it is so simple to use, but that decision is up to you. 

• Create an account with Linky Tools if you don't already have one.
• Complete all the steps that Mr. Brent has set up for you.
• Type in your Facebook Fan Page URL not your blog's!
• Copy the code like the one below

• Return to your Facebook Fan Page where your new HTML Application is located and click on the drop down, as shown below.

• Paste your Linky Tool code in the space provided. You are able to customize your message with photos too, using HTML. Then select Update. 

Please be aware that every application is different.  Just follow the instructions, copy and paste your code and you should be fine. 

Please note that the following will  not be available to do once the new Facebook Timeline comes to Facebook Fan Pages. Wait you aren't finished! Now go back to your Facebook Fan Page and click on Edit Page. 

• Click on Manage Permissions
• Then find the Default Landing Tab:
• Find your Hop Application, mine was called Welcome!
• Then Save Changes!

This way when people come to your page they will first land on the Hop, or to whatever Landing Tab you would like them to first see when they get to your page!


I do recommend that you have more than one Admin connected to your Fan Page.  If you see on the picture above, click on Manage Admins and add your trusted Admin Buddy! It is just a safeguard in case Facebook gets cranky with all of your new found activity a.k.a Fans!


Okay, now you are done! Have fun Hopping, I mean Liking!

New Linky Followers Tool Can Replace GFC!

Visit Linky Followers 

I was introduced to a new tool that you can use to replace the Google Friend Connect Widget!  Thank you Lisa Cash Hanson aka Mompreneur Mogul for pointing this out to all of us! Please visit her blog to join in on the Linky Followers Party Hop!


You know the handsome face behind all of the Linky Tools and Blog Hops, right? Well Mr. Brent has done it again, he has created a new Linky Followers Tool to replace Google Friend Connect!


On his Blog Brent states, "As you've probably heard, the popular Google Friend Connect ("GFC") is going away March 1st for non-Google blog platforms like WordPress, and the scuttlebutt is that it will be eventually phased out completely to be replaced by Google+.  GFC was never really so much an "I follow this blog" tool as it was an attempt at the whole Facebook "friend, like" concept."

This is an example of what it will look like once posted on your blog.

When you get your widget code you will see the number 64 in the code. That is the default number of followers that will show up once loaded on your blog. You can change the number to less or more depending on how many you would like to show.

Join Me on Facebook for Our Facebook Page Like Hop!

Join in on the Facebook Page Like Hop! Please Visit and Like Everyone's Page Here on Facebook! Add Your Facebook Page URL and Add Your Linky, Which Will Then Connect to Your Facebook Page!

FYI Tip of the Day! Like pages as yourself , NOT as your Fan Page, as only then will the Like count! As a precaution you should also have more than one Admin on your pages too.

Let's Link Up and Have Some Fun!  I am hosting a Facebook Page Like Hop. Please add your Facebook Page (not your blog) Linky to the Hop and follow everyone on there!

Praying for Baby Gabriel Zachary

I have had this button on my blog for months to remind me to pray for Baby Gabriel Zachary.  So a little history here, months ago I was blog hopping and stumbled upon Ordinary Inspirations!  Her sister-in-law was pregnant and here is the initial story:


"At her routine 12 week visit, the doctor found 2 hemorrhages inside of her womb. In the course of 5 weeks, one has passed but the other has grown. It now makes up 75% of the uterine lining. 

It is attached to the placenta which is lying partially over her cervix. The placenta has torn away from the uterine wall. 

The doctors say that every week she is pregnant is a miracle, and they are truly baffled when she returns pregnant.

Her specialist, who is also a Christian, said that it will be a miracle if she makes it to viability (24 weeks), and that there’s nothing he can do to help her get to that point."

So we all kept praying and I am happy to say that little Gabriel Zachary was born healthy in January 2011!  You can view pictures of him on Ordinary Inspirations.


The power of prayer, even for people we have never met!  Keep blog hopping, you never know what you will find when you do! 


I would like to thank Barbara from Spanish for Kids for reminding me to post about little Gabriel Zachary!!  


As for the button on my blog, I am keeping him there to remind me that miracles do happen!

Have Fun Blog Hopping!

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