How to Create a Facebook Badge for a Website

If you belong to Facebook you will want to increase your networking power by letting people know you're there and by giving them a link to your Facebook page. One way to do this is to make a Facebook badge and display it on your blog or website. Here is how.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A Facebook account
• A place to display your Facebook badge

1. Become a member of Facebook if you are not already registered (see link in Resources below).

2. Sign in to your Facebook account.

3. 
    
   Facebook Menu

   Find the Profile link in the menu at the top of the page. Click Profile.

4. On the Profile page, scroll down. Watch the column on the left until you see a link saying, "Create a Profile Badge." Click Create a Profile Badge.

5. 
    
   Badge Options

   On the badge page you'll find that you have several choices of ways to link to your Facebook page. You can make a custom badge, use a template or just create a simple HTML link. If you choose to use a template you can create a photo badge, a signature badge or a blog badge.

6. Click Create Badge to get started.

7. 
    
   Choose Your Options

   Make decisions about how you want the badge to appear. If you know that your site will support JavaScript, you can choose that option. (My Wordpress blog won't allow JavaScript, so I choose the Image option.) Complete the settings in this window and click Save.

8. 
    
   Here's the Code

   Facebook gives you the HTML code (or JavaScript, depending on your choices in the previous step) to add your badge to a blog or website. There is an edit option on the badge, as well as the option to delete it. Just below the badge code you will find the options to create a Custom Badge.

9. Copy the information provided and use it on the site of your choice to help people find your Facebook Profile.

Resources

• Facebook

[Veesites]

on 10/11/2009 I found some information in Facebook's help info about a badge for a Page. (You can learn how to create a badge for your Page from the 'Promotion Guidelines' link. This can be found under the communications section when you are editing your Page.) I can't find anything about a badge for a group.

[eclypse]

on 10/9/2009 Do you know how to create a badge that directs users directly to a Facebook GROUP page? I want to put a badge on my business website that directs users directly to my FB GROUP page.

[atp3]

on 9/12/2009 What I can't find is how to create a Facebook badge for your group (rather than your page or profile).

Here's the link of how to do it for your FB Page:

Guidelines, do's & don'ts for
Promoting your Facebook Page outside Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/promo_guidelines.php

Also includes:
- Link to "add a fan box" widget to your website (for your FB Page) &
- Link to add a “Page badge” to your website.

[Veesites]

on 8/26/2009 That's an interesting question, and I'm not finding an way to do it on Facebook. You can link directly to a page, like this,
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=18117748777
but I don't see a way to do with a Facebook generated badge.

[andreasfmpro]

on 8/25/2009 I believe what Chocolate00 is asking is what I and most people have been asking, but the answers are few and far between:

We want to create facebook badges for our website(s) that points to a facebook PAGE or facebook GROUP, as opposed to our facebook personal profile.

Instead, ALL links I've come across explain how to create a facebook badge for a personal profile ONLY!

Advice on how to do cross-posting from say, a blog, such as this one, onto facebook, would be welcome, as well. I see that this blog includes a "Post this comment to my Facebook Profile" check box. Nice!