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    5 Ways to Enhance Your Facebook Timeline Page With Images

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    Are you wondering how to visually enhance your Timeline Facebook page?

    This article provides five actionable tips you can employ now.
    The Visual Opportunity
    When Facebook moved the navigation into the left column and added the Photostrip, I wrote how you could optimize your Facebook page for visual branding.

    And when Timeline was rolled out for personal profiles, I also wrote how you can customize your cover photo and profile picture.

    With each new

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    16 Creative Ways to Make Your Facebook Timeline Cover Photo

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    At the 2011 f8 conference, Facebook announced Timeline -- a major overhaul of the personal Facebook profiles to which we've all grown accustomed.

    UPDATE December 15, 2011: Facebook announced that Timeline is now available worldwide. Read how to get started.

    When Timeline is rolled out, your personal profile will be organized in reverse chronological order, as a "timeline" of your life, like an online scrapbook. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, "Timeline is the story of your life... in a new

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    How to Move Your Facebook Tabs to Secure Hosting Required by Facebook

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    Heads up, page admins! As of October 1st, Facebook announced that any iFrame page tabs not hosted on a secure server under HTTPS will not be displayed to users browsing under HTTPS. This article will tell you what you need to do.

    According to Facebook's Cat Lee, "The content will not be accessible for users with secure browsing turned on. There will be a page that states something close to: This app does not support secure browsing."

    To help page admins locate a budget-friendly and secure

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    How to Track Tweets, Facebook Likes and More with Google Analytics

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    Don't you wish you could track the traffic impact of Twitter, Facebook and Google+ using Google Analytics? Well now you can. Keep reading to learn how.

    Google's getting social in a big way.

    Google has been quite busy lately, rolling out Google+ (Google's social network) to a limited audience, the Google +1 button (a feature similar to Facebook's Like button), a new Google Analytics interface and Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking.
    Google Analytics Social Interaction Tracking
    This new Analytics

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    3 Social Plugins for Customizing Facebook iFrame Tabs

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    Now that Facebook is fully supporting custom iFrame tabs and phasing out FBML and the Static FBML support, many page admins are wondering how best to add functionality to their iFrame tabs.

    For example, how do you add popular FBML tags that facilitated interaction on Facebook, such as Reveal/Fan-Gating, Multi-Friend Invite, Share button, Like button and Comments.
    Facebook Social Plugins to the Rescue!
    Fortunately, a subset of the XFBML tags (a.k.a. Social Plugins) intended for use on websites to integrate them into

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    How to Optimize Your Facebook Page for Visual Branding

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    Are you wondering how to visually optimize the new Facebook page layout?

    As of March 10, 2011, it became official—the new Facebook page layout was applied to all fan pages. Now that the dust has settled, bugs addressed and some tweaks made, admins can now focus their attention on making the most of what Facebook has given them, which is a LOT of screen real estate!

    Essentially, the new page layout gives over two-thirds of the available screen space to brands (see the red boxes in the image below), with

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    8 New Facebook Page Changes: What You Need to Know

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    Are you wondering what to do about the new Facebook page changes? This article will explore the important changes and what it means for your business.

    On Thursday, February 10, Facebook finally pulled the trigger and announced the updated layout of Facebook pages. They made the change to bring them more in line with the recently redesigned personal profiles and to provide a more consistent user experience.

    As with any major change to the Facebook user experience, the new design and features were accompanied by complaints,

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    How to Add a Like Button to Your Facebook Tabs

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    Have you ever wondered how certain Facebook pages add Like buttons to their custom tabs? Look no further.

    Many have asked me how sites like Threadless are able to add multiple Like buttons and comments to their Fan page, allowing visitors to buy, Like and comment on any t-shirt on their Shop tab.

    Well, it turns out it's actually quite easy, using the fb:comments FBML tag.

    Using fb:comments, you can add a Like button and comment boxes in multiple places on your Facebook tabs and,

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    How to Sell Products via Your Facebook Page

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    Ever wished you could directly sell your products and services from within Facebook? If so, this post is for you.

    I decided to dig in and research the current landscape thoroughly, both to better understand the lay of the land and to save you the research hassle.

    It was only a matter of time before Facebook and e-commerce would converge. Until a little over a year ago, only storefronts existed on Facebook, where merchants could display and promote their products and, with "Add to

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    How to Create Fan-only Facebook Content with the Reveal Tab

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    Have you ever wondered how some Facebook pages show specific content or offers only to fans? If so, look no further.

    (Important Update: Facebook no longer supports FBML. Please refer to the articles on Facebook iFrame.) One of the most popular FBML tags is fb:visible-to-connection. A favorite of marketers, this FBML tag allows a Facebook page to show different content to fans and non-fans. When a non-fan clicks the Like button - viola! - the non-fan content disappears and the fans-only

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