Top 10 Facebook Applications Webmasters Will Find Useful!
The reason Facebook is such a large
social network with over 901 million users is, it is a social network
for all. Whether people simply want to stay connected with their friends
and family, or want to promote their business, service or product, or are looking for professional help and other great tips, Facebook has it all!
Its aim is to engage the maximum type of audiences, so that no one
feels left out. Facebook is especially useful to webmasters, as is any
major social network. Here are the 10 top Facebook apps webmasters will
benefit from. These are good apps that will help your productivity.
1. Static HTML/FBML
Static HTML and FBML boxes allow you to
add additional functionality to your Facebook page, such as widgets,
much like inserting a widget code in your blog. With these, you can
transform your Facebook page into a mini website, with small widgets and
plugins. These boxes can really extend the functionalities of a normal
Facebook page.
2. Twitter
Twitter is another very large social
media and is accountable for bringing a lot of traffic to websites..
With this Twitter app for Facebook, you can integrate your Facebook and
Twitter accounts together, so you can post your Twitter feeds on your
Facebook pages. The selective feeds options enables you to publish only
those feeds that you add an fb hashtag to (#fb).
3. Poll
This is one of the best polling
application on Facebook. Polls allow you to ask questions from your
customers and audience, get feedback, suggestions,opinions, and more. It
is one of the best ways to communicate with them, since it only takes
one click to vote.
4. Promotions
Quite simply, promotions is an app that
helps companies and businesses start a marketing promotional campaign
for their products, with just a few mouse clicks.
5. SlideShare
SlideShare is the world’s largest
platform when it comes to sharing presentation slides and documents.
This app allows you to easily share promotional slides with users, or
documents with product information etc. You can upload word documents
and ppt files as pdf documents.
6. Constant Contact
This great app keeps your users alerted
of any updates from your side via email. Set up this app, and any users
who might be using it can easily get email notifications from your page.
7. YouTube
YouTube is the largest video hosting
website. They have a Facebook app as well. Once you install it, you will
see a new tab for YouTube, which makes it easier for you to promote
videos from your own channel.
8. RSS Graffiti
This app allows you to add an RSS feed to
your Facebook page. It can read almost any feed, including Twitter. So
you can automate the process of sharing your blog posts every day.
9. Networked Blogs
A great tool for webmasters to promote their blogs and find other blogs according to category etc.
10. Coupons
Add coupons to your fan page for your
fans to use for purchasing products or services. Track with special
coupon codes just for Facebook fans and remind customers to provide a
review of your company on the Reviews tab you just added.
There goes our list of the top 10
Facebook apps for webmasters. If you have questions, then do let us
know. And also, feel free to suggest more great Facebook apps that could
help. Cheers
