You may have noticed that Facebook have recently rolled out a new look personal profile.
One of the major changes is the removal of the information box below your picture. This box was extremely handy, as you were able to include a live, clickable URL to your website or, more importantly, your Facebook Business Page.
Whilst this box is now gone, there is still a way to link up your Facebook Business page via your personal profile – by adding your Facebook Business page as an employer.
As with most things Facebook, for some of you, it will be very simple. You just need to Edit your Education and Work, find the Employer field and start typing the name of your page. Facebook will give you drop down prompts of names to select, one of which should be your page. Select this and set as your current employer.
For others (like me!), there is a small catch and you’ll need to do a bit of coding in order to get your Facebook Business page displaying correctly in your personal Facebook profile. (You can click each of the example images below to enlarge them for easier viewing).
Here’s what to do:
Firstly, you’ll need to load up your Firefox web browser to make the changes. Within Firefox, you’ll need to use the Web Developer functionality. You can download the necessary addon here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/
Once you have installed the addon, restart Firefox.
Next, go to your Facebook business page and copy the ID tag from the menu bar:
So, in the above example, for Wendy Moore Inc the Facebook business page ID tag is 365773404831.
Once you have copied this ID tag, go back to your personal Facebook profile and Edit Profile:
In the left hand menu bar, select Education and Work. For Employer, enter the name of your Facebook Business page. As you start to type, Facebook will make suggestions.
Select Add “name of your page” to reveal Employer fields to complete.
This is where you need to do a little bit of coding.
In the Facebook profile window above, Right Click your Mouse and Choose => Web Developer => Forms => Display Form Details
The window will change and appear as follows, with Form Details turned on (click picture below to enlarge):
Find the TWO fields called <input name=”employer_id”> (shown above circled in red).
Paste the ID tab into the two fields (shown above circled in red). There is one field right at the top and a second field on the right hand side. The top field will be blank. The second field on the right hand side will already have numbers in it. Replace these numbers with the ID tag.
Next, click the box saying “I currently work here” to show this as your Current Employer.
Finally, click the Add Job button and your Facebook Business page will be added to your profile.
Remeber to Turn Off the Display Form Details by again right clicking with your Mouse and choosing Web Developer => Forms => Display Form Details
Your Facebook Business Page will now show under your Education and Work:
Your Facebook Business Page will now also show as your employer, as clickable links through to your Facebook Business Page:
If you are still confused as to what to do, feel free to drop me a line or Contact Us.
By Wendy Moore
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My business page is showing up there and I didn’t need to do any coding.
Thanks! Great article figured it out right away
Fabulous Sorin. Happy to help! Wendy
Hi Larna, yes, for some people it just does. That’s Facebook for you!
Hi Wendy,
my page id does not have numbers ,the id under your wall http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wendy-Moore-Inc/365773404831?v=wall (this is yours and i can see the numbers)
this is mine http://www.facebook.com/natashadowlingCCPRO?v=wall
However, another page that i will set to default is http://www.facebook.com/natashadowlingCCPRO?v=app_4949752878&ref=sgm. I have tried these numbers , but only 1 box for employer ID comes up, any other boxes are experience ID ???
Thanks Natasha
Thanks Wendy.
Hi Natasha,
I’ve posted another blog about how to fix this issue here:
http://www.wendymoore.net/2010/12/how-to-add-your-facebook-business-page-to-your-new-facebook-profile-part-2-how-do-i-find-my-business-page-unique-id-tag/
Hi Wendy,
I found your site looking for how to do exactly this, but I have one slight problem and I’m hoping that you might know a way around it… There is an organization page that has the same name as my local business page (Inner Light Reiki). This organization comes up when I try to type in the ‘Employer’ box, but my business does not. As this removes the ‘Add *your business*’ tab underneath the suggestions, is there any way for me to add my page or am I stuck until they revamp this feature again?
Hi Paul,
This is a great question and probably worthy of a further blog post explaining how to do it!
In a nutshell, what I found worked for me was to follow the steps I shared to update your personal profile and add your Facebook Business page as your current employer. Save it all, then go back in and edit your profile and delete the other automatic entry that Facebook has set up for you (I’m assuming you are referring to the random organisation page Facebook seems to have created for all businesses). This auto page does not behave like a proper Facebook Business page, it just seems to be a default business page.
So, after updating your employer, try deleting the one that you don’t want and tell Facebook that you currently work at the one that is a direct link to your “real” Facebook Business page.
It may take a bit of tinkering around, as Facebook tends to put your updated one second on the list under the random one they create automatically. When they did this on my profile page, I just deleted the random one so that my real page that I did want to link to was the most recent employer.
Let me know if you still experience challenges with this.
Wendy
Hi Wendy,
I am adding my Page to edu/work, but i only see one place to add employer id here http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/editprofile.php?sk=eduwork
one says employer the other experience id
Any enlightenment?
Thanks,
Natasha:)
AH HA! No worries Wendy, I got it!
cheers,
Natasha:)
This succeeded in changing my client’s business page to her Facebook fan page, but it didn’t delete the original business page from the system. Instead, the page is just there – empty and ghostly, with 2 friends, 4 likes and one comment. How do you think we can get rid of this page once and for all?
Thanks Wendy, got a link to this article from Donna @ Simple Online Solutions. Step by step simple to follow – no problems at all. Personal and Business FB pages now linked – thanks again.
Fabulous Megan. Happy to help. Wendy
Hi, Wendy – I have never had any luck with Firefox and (as usual) I am having trouble following your instructions. I have gone so far as to downloading the web developer file that the link in your article takes me to. The problem I am having is that I cannot open a file with an extension .XPI. When I search the web for a way to open it, I get a list of links to companies that want to do a free scan to check for registry errors, aka ScamAlerts! Can you help me figure out how to load the file? Thanks
Hi Kip,
You’ll need the Firefox Addon. You need to make sure you do this (install the addon) via Firefox, not another browser or by double clicking on it. Go Tools => AddOns and Web Developer should show under Extension. Select Install.
Once you’ve installed this add on, reboot Firefox and you should then just be able to right click the screen and follow the steps from there. This assumes you are using a PC. If you are on a MAC let me know. Wendy
I’ve an issue whereby when I try to view my facebook business profile on mac or ipad, it briefly displays it, and then it disappears entirely. The main content this is, not the entire page. Address is above. Any ideas? I’m really stuck! Thanks in advance
Hi Marcus,
I’ve had a look at your page on Facebook (on a PC in Firefox) and it displays fine.
I’m not a mac girl nor do I have an iPad, so I can’t really resolve the issue for you. I do know that iPads do not have the full functionality of a pc (perhaps even a mac) and do not display all the information contained on a page. Because your page uses tab in tab functionality, supplied/driven by an external source (scoot and touchlocal), perhaps it is having issues pulling in the information from these sources. Do you know if scoot and touchlocal are suppored by macs? There might be a version of these that is mac compatible.
Sorry, but I can’t offer much more help than that as macs and ipads are not my thing.
Wendy
Many thanks for taking the time to respond Wendy, very kind of you.
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I’ll take the issue up with Scoot and see what they have to say about it. I suspect they’ll shrug their shoulders though!
Again, many thanks
Hi Wendy, thanks so much for this tutorial, but I still have a problem.
When I enter the ID in the two fields and click SAVE, it looks like it is saving but the top field gets erased and becomes blank again. As a result, my page is there but not CLICKABLE in my profile without going into my information.Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks
Jenny
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