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How to Make Facebook's New Timeline for Pages Work for Your Brand. Timeline Cover Photo for Facebook Pages – Are you following the rules? When Facebook launched Timeline for Pages, most people were already familiar with the new layout of the Cover Photo and Profile Picture.

Timeline Cover Photo for Facebook Pages – Are you following the rules?

Personal Profiles have had Timeline for months now. The new Cover Photo gives Business Pages the opportunity to display a large image at the top of their Page. Facebook Fanpage Timelines: iFrame Tabs and Embedding Rafflecopter Widget in Facebook. Right off the bat, when Facebook timeline took over I noticed that the pages are much less friendly and the iFrame / FBML tabs you used to use on your older Facebook fanpage view don’t work properly anymore if you had the arrow at top pointing to “Like My Page” this arrow no longer points next to the like button.

Facebook Fanpage Timelines: iFrame Tabs and Embedding Rafflecopter Widget in Facebook

When someone first visits your page they are greeted with the timeline and your logo and Facebook favorites are the biggest things on display. These favorites by default will show photo’s which can’t be changed, Facebook likes (but not the like button, will just show information and stats about likes) and notes or whatever other sub apps you created that created tabs on your Facebook fanpage. The first thing you will want to do is get rid of the “Likes” favorite by default since this could confuse users and isn’t the actual like button. @ileane from Basic Podcasting Tips does a great job explaining why you should ditch the like button and you should read her post: -Dragon Blogger.