How to Create a Facebook Welcome Page and Make it a Landing Page

Awesome tutorial, thanks for your generosity in sharing it!

Awesome, love the tutorial…I can actually hear & see it! Thank you!

Sorry for the repeat

where did you get the HTML thingy

Do you know how to change the icon so its not that ugly star?

how do i upload an ebook pdf file into my welcome page in facebook?

thank you this is very useful  

Hi Gagnon.  You need to host the pdf file, then link to that file on your welcome page.  If you are building your page in wordpress this is really easy because you can insert the file into the page you are building and therefore the html code you use for your Facebook page.  I hope that helped.

Thank you very much it  is very useful

WHERE do i create my own BLOG or the HTML ?

Please see my comment above to Lance21

This was excellent! I created one on my own with your help! Best tutorial on the topic thus far!

i got it after to see your video but i couldn’t find the add new page option, i have no any bar at the top of first face book bar like your page there are 3 or 4 bars at the top how to make this please let me know quickly its very urgent plz plz plz

Then are you in Facebook?  Are you referring to how to add the application?  Or how to past the html code into a page?  I am not sure what you mean by bars.  Happy to help – just need more info

This tutorial was extremely helpful!!! Thanks for the info!

after adding the ‘add new page’ i didnt get the editor…i mean the editor didnot appear..what should i do???

You first need to design the page using wordpress or another html page creator.  That is where you get the code to paste into the boxes.  Make sense?

how do u go to wordpress blog u didnt tell us confusion

Sign up for a free account at wordpress.com, choose a username and password, then login to create your first post.  This is where you get the html code from to put in the Facebook app.

Great question.  If you set it to be your landing page then this is what first time visitors will see.  Returning visitors who have liked your page will not be sent there. They will be sent to your wall instead. 

Even though you set this page as a landing page it will still exist as a tab under your profile image that your current followers can click on too.

So you can say “like my page” on that page for new fans but it will also be seen by current fans.

Another option is to do something like this (which is more advanced):
1) Create a landing page that is only for first time subscribers that says they have to like your page to find out how to win an ipad.
2) Create a separate page that is all about the contest that you can refer your active followers to in your wall posts.  This would have a different Constant Contact form.

A few examples: Here is a good profile image pointing down to a separate contest page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frank-Kern/137568852956377 (his contest is now closed though).  And here is a client of ours that has multiple pages that have worked well for different campaigns - http://www.facebook.com/BecomeALifeCoach.

Please feel free to ask more questions if you want to go advanced

Great tutorial! I got everything done, but for some reason, I can’t see the finished page. I click on one and it shows it to me, but when I try to go back to see the other one, it takes me back to the “edit” mode with the two empty boxes. Is there a way to see the finished pages?

I can’t find how to embed the video I have looked not on the actual youtube channel but it isn’t there please help good video though really helpful 

Anyone know of a way for returning visitors, who have liked the page, to default to a tab opposed to the wall

Unfortunately no. My team and I have not been able to figure this out.  Only first-time visitors.

awesome site, thanks for sharing this. very interesting

I want a code which automatically detect who is visiting the page and then a message appears welcome abc to my fan page.

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Thanks you sooo much for this very helpful information..!! 

You have some wonderful photography.  Thanks for sharing!

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I think I’m in love with you… Thanks for your help.

So glad I could help!!  :)

I had read and watched a few tutorials on this very subject matter and I must say this is by far the clearest and most straight-forward I have seen to date, you made it look doable. Your teaching skill is superb (amidst the distracting cars rolling by) but there’s the generosity to share that information as well. So thank you very much for this, you have surely enlightened a lot of non-tech savvy small businesses like myself and feel a bit braver to venture out there in the ever-increasing daunting world of business technology and social media. I can hardly wait to give it a try!

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That they did .  You can’t make a landing page in Facebook anymore with the new timeline format.  But you can highlight your page in a couple of ways – with an image, name and placement. Just go in to edit your page, then go to apps, then find this app.  You can edit it from within there and I recommend naming the app something like “FREE gift” or whatever you are giving away.  You will also see a new area in the app where you can upload a photo that will take the place of the grey default star that used to appear.  So perhaps you can use an image that also highlights what your outcome is for the page. Lastly you can move around the apps that appear under your cover image by clicking on the little drop down arrow.  Hope that helps!