Facebook now has a "like" button to go with their new features.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
If you click the "like" button on a website, it posts to your Facebook stream. Since Facebook is the #2 or #1 site on the Web, I think it's a good idea to encourage people to post hostel's website to their Facebook streams.
There is an example of the "like" button on the HM homepage:
http://www.hostelmanagement.com/
Instructions for WordPress:
http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2010/04/22/how-to-put-the-facebook-like-button-on-your-wordpress-blog/
Here is the sample code:
The button will say "recommend" -- to change the button text to "like", change action=recommend to action=like.
See the dynamic PHP version in action at the bottom of any of these hostel listings.
If anyone would like help adding the like button to their hostel's website, post questions here...
14 years
So the link should be the URL of the page that the code is on?
I was hoping to just add the code into a Dreamweaver template to update across my entire site. I guess this may not be the best option then. Perhaps just a graphic or text link with a link to my Facebook fan page would be a better idea.
14 years
If you copy/paste this code exactly, it should automatically insert the URL of the current page -- that way people can "like" specific pages:
[PHP]
14 years
Is there any reason why the this Facebook Like button is any better than what I have put on my site. I just made up a graphic with a link to my Facebook page and stuck it on the bottom of most of my pages (I haven't yet added it to my hostel review pages, forum or blog, but it is on all the pages that I've made in Dreamweaver). I figure it looks nicer as the style matches my Twitter and Stumbleupon buttons.
See the bottom of http://www.bugpacific.com/auckland/index.html for an example.
14 years
Looks good... I think fan pages are better in some ways because once they "like" the Facebook page they subscribe to your content. Clicking a like button on a website doesn't subscribe to anything...
14 years
Oh, I just assumed that clicking the "like" button on a website would be the same as going to the fan page and clicking "like".
If the like button doesn't do that, then what I have on my site is probably a better option.
14 years
Oh, I just assumed that clicking the "like" button on a website would be the same as going to the fan page and clicking "like".
Try clicking one of the "like" buttons here in the Forum and then check your Facebook profile. It just puts a link to that specific page in the Forum...
Better to have people like the Facebook page itself than to like specific pages on a website... but if a lot of people also like specific pages, the benefit is that their friends could share it virally.
Example: here is one site that got 113 visitors to click the like button and feed the URL of that page to all their Facebook friends:
14 years
There is now an easier way to add the button. Check it out:
http://www.hostelmanagement.com/forums/openlikeorg-better-way-add-facebook-like-button.html
Just copy/paste that code and it does everything for you without needing to change the code for every page.
Related Pages
Log in to join discussion