Can You Put a Facebook Badge on Your Personal Facebook Page?

Whether you want to promote your brand, gain new customers or simply make new friends on Facebook, you can do so by posting your badge on your website or blog but not on your own Facebook page. However, your Facebook profile will already contain links to the pages or photos for which you can create a Facebook badge.

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Function
- A Facebook badge is a graphical banner that you can put on your website with information and content from your Facebook profile. Visitors to your website can click on your badge or content, such as a photo, to visit your Facebook profile. From there, your visitors can learn more about you, add you as a friend on the social network, read about your brand or business and "Like" pages that you have created or are also a fan of. You can create the code for badges on Facebook. This code uses basic HTML that you can paste into a variety of websites, blogs and other online locations.
Types
- Several different types of Facebook badges exist that you can put on your website. For example, the personal badge shows your photo and information such as your name, birthday and networks. A photo badge can include up to eight photos that you have uploaded to your Facebook account. This badge uses a tabular format that you can customize to your liking. In addition to this, you can create a badge to show a page that you administer or a page (interest) that you like on Facebook. If you create or administer a page, its badge includes the page name, status, pictures and number of current fans. When you link to a page on Facebook that you like, the name and photo appear along with an image that you like the page/interest.
HTML on Facebook
- Facebook limits the HTML that you can use so you cannot place the code on your personal profile in locations such as your biography. The only place where you can use HTML is on a Facebook page; however, pages represent your brand or business and not you personally. You can either install an app to your page that allows you to use static HTML or copy the badge code to a page on your own website and then display the HTML using an internal frame. Nevertheless, this second method is indirect still requires you to have a separate website where you can upload an HTML document.
Considerations
- By default, your Facebook profile will contain links to any pages or interests that you have liked. Readers can find this information when they click the "Info" tab on your profile. If you wish to direct your Facebook friends to a page that you have made, you can also add it to your interests so that it appears with as a link on your profile. In addition to this, your photos are readily accessible from your personal profile. These dynamic links negate any need for posting a badge on your personal page.