10 Useful Code Tricks for Business or beautiful Facebook Fan pages

1. Embedding YouTube Videos

When you click the embed button below the video in YouTube, It will give you the embed code to put that video easily on your website or might be using some free plugin to easily embed youtube videos on wordpress blogs.

But in case of embedding YouTube video on Facebook page, the default embed HTML code doesn’t works. The video on Facebook can be only embedded using the lash. Copy-Paste the code below into the FBML box of your page to embed the video. Remember to replace VIDEO_ID with the YouTube Video ID before you save.

<fb:swf swfsrc=”http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID” imgsrc=”http://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/default.jpg” width=”480″ height=”360″ />

2. Separate contents for Fans and non-fans

Showing Separate contents for the Facebook Page fans and non fans can also help you gain more fans for your page. You can use the FMBL below and show separate content for the fans and non-fans.

<fb:fbml version=”1.1″>
<fb:visible-to-connection>This part is visible for fans only!
<fb:else>This part is visible for non-fans</fb:else>
</fb:visible-to-connection>
</fb:fbml>

3. Invite to Friends box

Adding an Invite to Friend box below the main Content of your welcome Tab will also help you increase the fans of your page as it makes your fans easier to invite their friends on Facebook. Use the following code in FBML box  to insert the Invite box in your page.

<fb:request-form method=”post” type=”[your organization]” invite=”true” content=”Check out [your organization]<fb:req-choice url=’http://www.facebook.com/YOURPAGE’ ‘ label=’GO’ /> “>

<fb:multi-friend-selector actiontext=”Tell your friends about [your organization]” rows=”3″ showborder=”true” />

</fb:request-form>

</fb:request-form>