Maximizing your use of Tags on Facebook? (15 posts)

  • If you could share one tip on Tagging while on Facebook that you consider your best what would it be?

    I am specifically hoping for examples that create the most engagement and interaction. 

    Thanks! 

  • I’m just getting into the idea of tagging on Facebook, particularly for status updates. I’d like to do it from my business page to acknowledge my customers. Any ideas of how I can tag in status updates from the business page?

  • Sure! Just visit your page an then choose use Fcebook as. Then tagging other pages works great.

  • Best use of tagging I heard of is after a local event where a lot of people participated. Then you post photos from the event, tag everybody you can and get great exposure.

  • I tried something fun last night that worked very well. I put up a picture with a selection of beers in it and asked people to tag themselves in their favorite bottle! 

    First time I have tried doing this and reached Max. tags so it certainly went well.

    Here is the post http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150422152611765&set=a.476036261764.260374.511466764&type=1&theater

  • @chrissmith  That’s a fun idea!  I like tagging occasionally to promote other Pages posts or highlight a Page you like.  I don’t like when people tag a list of pages all at the same time with content that isn’t all that helpful or relevant.

  • Andrea I agree. It often ends up in a Twitter Follow Friday mess. The intentions are good but the results look very spammy.

  • @chrissmith I, too, love the idea of tagging to increase interaction with visibility.  

    I would really like to tag other individuals whom we have in the studio, bump into around town or collaborate with for various projects, but it’s difficult as a page if you aren’t friends through your personal pages. Has anyone else had to overcome this hurdle? 

  • @jessiespringer I’d like to know the same thing.

  • I learned a great tagging tip from Shelby Isaacson, http://www.nuchaptermarketing.com.  This is for authors, but I think it would be great to do if you have authors as clients as I do.  

    1.  Ask friends if you can tag them in a cover of a book.2 .Upload an image of a book cover and click the tag tab.3. Enter the names of all the friends that approved your request to tag4. Press enter and your done.

    I haven’t tried it yet but I will because according to Shelby this can go viral pretty fast.  

  • I also love to use the tagging when checking in to events – especially events where I would like to attract new people to join. My phone app allows me to do that very easily.

  • @brianjohns I’ve been trying for a while to find a way around having to accept the person as a friend to tag them, and I just don’t think there is one. The only exception would be if they are using FB with a “public figure” page. For now, we’ll have to tag who we can and utilize places as  @traceywarren suggests…

    If anyone knows otherwise – fill us in! :)  

  • @chrissmith We have website sponsors who we tag each week and what I find works best now (after trying a few different things) is featuring them in the bottom of a short blog post and then linking the post on Facebook, tagging each of them so it shows on their walls. I try to keep the posts relevant to the theme for that day and to the businesses I’m tagging so that people will be enticed to click. It’s been working really well thus far. We also do random tags for businesses who post on our page wall but only a small number of these. We try to stick to 3-4 posts per day if possible. 

  • @jessiespringer @brianjohns @chrissmith

    When someone comments on your page’s post, you can tag them in your future comments of that post. They do not have to be public figures or pages for this to work. 

    This is simple but responding to comments with a tag is better to entice them to return to check the new comment than just the notification that “someone commented on the post that you commented on”.

  • On the tagging I’ve taken a tip from my daughter…Everywhere she goes she’s taking pictures and tagging herself, her friends in the picture and the friend that she wants to see the picture. She got a date with a friend of a friend that way. (She 25 and lives on her own. She just told me about the date! It’s a New Years date, so we’ll see how that goes.)

    I’ve tagged businesses that I met at an expo I participated in with one of my clients and got quite a few likes for the number of tags. I would say the like to tag ratio was about 85%. Which I though was quite high. I also tagged a party I went to and was friended by everyone in the tags. :) We used my phone that evening to add the pics, friends and tags. I got 1 lead from the party. Which I would never have expected any other way. (It’s good to be techy!)


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