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Whether you have a business Facebook page for your organization or brand, we’re sure you’ve put a lot of time into curating the perfect selection of photos, nailing your bio, and posting important information about your projects and promotions for your followers.
You’ve created this page to represent you as a business or public figure and the work you do. And when you know how to share a Facebook page link, you can easily double your investment. You can quickly promote this space to a wider audience just by linking to your Facebook content elsewhere. That’s what we call expanding your reach.
In the following sections, we’ll explain the basics of making sure your Facebook page is visible, how to get a Facebook link, and how to quickly blast it to a larger audience. We’ll also leave you with some tips on keeping your content fresh, relatable, and engaging to feel confident sharing it with even more viewers. We’re sure they’re excited to see what you’ve been up to.
First things first: Before you push your Facebook page out to the rest of the world, make sure you’ve published it, making it visible to the public. Here’s how:
Now, all your fans, followers, or customers can see your page, and you’re ready to share it widely.
You can share links to a wider audience in various ways, and we’ll provide you with some inspiration in the next section.
For now, let’s stick to the basics. Here are four steps to accessing Facebook’s sharing option for your page:
Facebook offers you a variety of quick ways to share your page. Here’s what they are and how they work.
Make your life a little bit easier for your followers on other social media applications, like Instagram, by sharing a link to your Facebook page in your bio. Simply log in to your Linktree Admin and name your link something users will understand. Be brief but informative; for example: “(Insert your business name here)’s Facebook Page.” Then, copy (if you haven’t done so already) the link to your Facebook page and paste it into the field for a URL. Voila!Want a little bit of inspiration before you publish your page and push it out to all your current and future followers? Here are some ideas of content you can publish on your FB page to increase engagement and perfect this space before expanding your audience.
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There are lots of good reasons to add links to your library’s Facebook page, including sharing news from your library website, sharing a website you think will be helpful to your library users, or passing along an interesting article. If you just enter a URL in the post box and click on the Post button, your finished post will be visible to the public and will look like this:
Not bad, but let’s start over and see if we can make this look a little better.
Step One: Enter the URL
To begin, key in or copy and paste the URL you want to share into the post box at the top of your page. Facebook will automatically look up the page, and bring in a title, description and (if it can find one) a thumbnail image.
The post now looks like this:
Step Two: Remove the URL
Once Facebook has pulled in the information from the site we’re linking to, it doesn’t need the URL in the box anymore, so we can remove it. The title will be the link to the article, and the post will be less cluttered.
The post now looks like this:
Step Three: Edit the Title and Description as Needed
Ideally, Facebook would always bring in an appropriate title and description from the site that you’re linking to, but depending on the site, this may not work very well. It doesn’t look like you can edit the title or description, but you can. Hover over either the title or the description, and you’ll see a yellow background:
Click on it, and you’ll see that you can edit the text. Don’t be creative here — this spot is generally understood to coming from the content provider, so it’s not a good place for your own comments. In this case, Facebook brought in the description of American Libraries itself, and not this article.
I am using copy and paste to replace that with the first paragraph of the article.
Note that this works even when the title or description is blank. Just hover over the place where the title or description should be until you find the yellow, click and you’ll be able to add the missing element.
Step Four: Add Your Post Text
You may want to add your own message to the link you’re sharing. In this case, I was encouraging people to check the library catalog to find books mentioned in the article, so I included the catalog URL at the end of my message.
The post now looks like this:
Step Five: Check the Thumbnail
Facebook may bring several thumbnails into the post, allowing you to move back and forth to choose the one you want to use for your post. Some may have nothing to do with the page you’re linking to — this is especially true with blog posts and news articles, where you might get thumbnails from other articles or advertisements.
Choose the thumbnail you want, or, if there’s nothing appropriate, check the box for “No thumbnail.”
In this case, the only other thumbnail available for this link was just the ALA logo, so I switched back to the original image.
Step Six: Post
Now click the Post button, and your post will be available to the public. People visiting your page or seeing the link it their newsfeed will be able to click through to the original article, click Like, Comment or Share. If they click Share, they will be posting the link on their own page or profile. The thumbnail, title and description will be passed along but your message will not — they will be able to add their own.
Note that the link to the library catalog that I added to my post is now a blue, clickable link.
Schedule a Post
If you don’t want your post to show up immediately, you can click on the clock icon in the lower left of the post box to schedule it to appear at a particular date and time.
Active Facebook users very often have to post both inside and outside the social network various links to profiles of other users, to this or that content. If you need to do this within a social network, then there is a convenient “Share” function. If you need to place a mention of a Facebook user or content outside the social network, then you have to use links.
Therefore, let's talk about how to copy all possible links in the desktop version of Facebook and in the version for mobile devices. 9Ol000 user profile
If you prefer to work from a computer or laptop using a browser version, then finding and copying a link to any source is easy . The main action in this case is to select the text in the address bar and copy it.
But it's important to know where that text is and how to get to the right link.
Any personal Facebook profile has an ID that belongs to him and only him. The personal profile address looks like this: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000*******6169. And in this address, ID is a combination of numbers after the “=” sign.
In order to find and copy a link to a user's Facebook profile, you must first log into the profile. This is done very simply: click on the avatar and on the username. If you need a link to your personal profile, then entering it is very simple: the avatar and your nickname are located in the upper left corner of the page.
To access a user's profile from your friend list, simply click on his photo in the publication, in the comments, or in the list of friends.
When you go to the profile, then copy the contents of the address bar of the browser. And you will get a profile link that is pasted into an email or any other text.
The process of obtaining a link to a publication is in no way dependent on the nature of the content posted there.
It can be text, photo or video. In any case, to receive a link, the publication must be opened in a separate window.
To do this:
Important! Facebook posts have "Save Post", "Save Link", "Save Video" options. These functions allow you to save the content that the user likes inside the social network, if you need, for example, to make a selection of interesting publications for yourself in order to either return to them or study them in detail in the future. But in order to get a link suitable for use on a third-party resource, these options are not suitable.
If you want to copy a link to a group or page on a social network for use outside of Facebook, then the sequence of actions is almost the same as when copying the address of a personal profile.
In particular, the actions are as follows:
If the task is to find and copy the address of a group on Facebook, then the sequence of actions is completely similar. That is, in order to get the coveted link, you must go to the group.
Of course, searching for profiles, pages and groups, copying links is a matter that takes a decent amount of time, and therefore many bloggers prefer to optimize the process with the help of browser extensions created just for this purpose.
This is not a resource-intensive plugin at all, taking up very little space. The plugin allows you to share this or that content on the site, in a group or in a messenger at any time. Attention! The first plugin is almost a rarity and is not used by the vast majority of users. But the second one is quite working and relevant.
Only at first glance it seems that when working on Facebook from a smartphone, finding and copying a link is problematic. However, if you know all the nuances of the procedure, then as a result it turns out that it is in some ways even simpler than a similar procedure in the browser version of the social network.
To save a link to a Facebook user profile, you need:
Copying a link to a Facebook post using the mobile application is also easy.
True, the function is available if the "Share" option is activated by the author of the post or the administrator of the page/group.
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Finding and copying the address of a Facebook group or page is also easy for mobile app users.
Do it like this:
If you need a link to a group, then the procedure is somewhat different:
That is, both in the desktop version of Facebook and in mobile applications, copying links to profiles, publications, pages and groups is very easy.
If you want to promote your account, you just need to know how to find and copy a Facebook link. This is also useful for copying the address of the person you are interested in whose posts you want to share.
A link to Facebook is required to promote a business or website.If you are logged into Facebook from a computer:
Groups can create their own ID. To copy it, follow the instructions for personal pages.
If you need to insert a public profile hyperlink into the text of a Facebook post, there is another way.
Community ID needs to be defined. It's the 15 digits at the end of the address bar before the & character. After that, you need to use the following construction: @@[0:[ID :1:TEXT]].
This way you can create a URL in plain text.
In order to insert a profile link into the text of a Facebook post, you need to know your community ID.When you find something interesting in the feed, there is no need to copy the URL of the entire page.
You need to perform the following actions:
If you decide to get a link to your post, you can do it right from your wall.
The algorithm is similar: press the date of addition, copy the link.
If you are using a mobile Internet browser, you can simply copy the Facebook link in the address bar, just like in the desktop version of the site.
If you have an Android application, go to your profile, click on the 3 dots next to the activity log and select "Copy link" from the menu. When a message appears stating that it has been copied, you can paste it wherever you want.
To share a link to another person's account, follow the same instructions with the only difference that you need to open not your own page, but the one that interests you.
iOS users will have a little more difficulty:
To do this, you need to go to the group, click on the 3 dots on the right, click on “Share” and select the option you need from the menu.
