By
Jeff Czyzewski on May 08th, 2010
Everyone is looking for new methods of getting tons of traffic to their blog or website. Now, you can leverage the power of Facebook to accomplish that. There are some serious benefits to doing this and somethings that search engines like Google just won’t like.
Facebook Introduces “Like” button for off Facebook websites
There you have it. Facebook has decided to allow off Facebook sites to include “Like” or “Recommend” buttons on websites, which means you can include this feature on your own blog or website very, very easily.
Just like the image above, someone can easily be reading your blog, decide they like your post and simply “Like” it. By doing so, it will put a link directly to that page on their Facebook wall and recently activity page, just like the image below.
This is great if your viewer has lots of friends that may be interested in that topic.
It also helps build social proof and support as the Badge also lists how many people have also “Liked” or “Recommended” your site or post.
Why Google Will Hate This
The SERPS (Search Engine Page Results) display pages based on content and links, unfortunately, Facebook feeds are not indexed. What that means is that your link from Facebook will not give your site any additional weight when it comes to Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.
What is DOES mean, is that now Facebook will begin to carry more weight from social networking recommendations. Essentially, Facebook’s own internal search engine could very easily carry more power when it comes to articles, posts and content that does viral.
What About Wall Spam in Facebook?
Since “Liking” a topic or post is completely up to you, no-one else can spam your wall with links from this new out going “Like” feature. That’s great news.
So bottom line is, provide valuable content, make lots of Facebook friends and the new Like feature can be a great benefit to you since your link can now show up on hundreds or thousands of Walls.
How To Add Your Own Like Button
There are plenty of new WordPress Like button plugins available. They all essentially do exactly the same thing. Since this is all fairly new, they are all carry about the same rating and downloads. You’ll need to experiment your self.
I choose to use the “WordPress Facebook-Like” plugin and it has been performing fine so far.
If you don’t have a blog and want to include your own recommends or like button on a regular HTML website and know a little bit about HTML tags and code, you can follow the instructions located on the Facebook Site. The Facebook plugins page provides details and a like wizard to make it easy for you to include the Like button and other Facebook widgets on your site.
If You Like It, then “Like” It
If you found this information helpful, then scroll up to the top of this post and “Like” it for me. Also, please post your comments and questions below.
