Make a Facebook Fan Page - Get Backlinks

Backlinks are an important feature that many lensmasters have a tendency to ignore. I know I did. It's not enough to create a lens or online article and expect the world to trample the doors down to your page. Sure, your lens and pages are indexed by Google, Bing and the rest. But sadly, it's not enough. You need to help those little Google bots and search engine spiders and build a web of links so they realize just how important your work is.

How? Well, one way is to create backlinks to the work you do. If you have a blog or a website, that means backlinks to every page you want people to visit. NOT just to the home page. If you have a Squidoo lens or page, then you need to build a web of backlinks for every one you create. One important way to do that is by using social media.

Twitter helps with backlinks. Posting to your Facebook account helps. But creating a Facebook page dedicated to your Squidoo work and/or your online work is another way that is packed with value. Why not give it a try? Choose one page and build a web. Then move to another. Pretty soon, your web will be plenty big enough.

Why does anyone make a Facebook Fan Page? Well, the #1 reason is to get people to "like" them. "Like" in social media terms is similar to liking someone that you come across in everyday life but when it happens online it requires an action by you. It's not enough to say, "Oh, that's nice" and surf on.

Today, in social media terms, a Fanpage and other online writing articles come with "like" buttons. The author is asking you visually to "like" them, to click on the button and to count that page as a "friend" of yours and add them to your cast of "likeable" fan pages.

What that means for the person who is doing the "liking," is that they are saying they deem your Facebook Fan Page, your online article, worthy of being added to their personal or their own fan page wall. That says to their friends that they like your page and they want to let others know it. They are allowing the posts from your fan page to show up on their wall for their friends to see.

For you, the person with the fan page, it's important that the visitor take that extra step and click "Like." It expands your social media network. It provides the potential for new readers and viewers. In today's social media culture, likes are capital.

So what do you do? I hope, of course, given what I've said, that you will find value in my Facebook Fan Pages provided below. I hope you will like my work and will want to see more. So I hope you will "like" me.

If you have a Facebook Fan Page already, I urge you to add your Facebook Fan Page to the link list provided toward the end of this article so you can gain more exposure, too, and capture more "likes."

For starters, please consider dropping by my Facebook fan pages, and, if you enjoy them, liking my other Facebook Fan Pages. Each has a different purpose but some of the audience overlaps. As you'll see, I am busy scribbling away nearly every day.