If you look at the Code for the Fan page Gadget for Facebook it all looks like a normal gadget but there is a Very big Problem with this fan Page widget because causing your site to loose visitors if you examine the Gadget Code it no longer appears as a promotional Gadget quite the opposite Actually
The Code is using ;a href="selftarget.html" target="_top">top
which is opening your fan page on Facebook in the same Window and the Visitor has left your site then the Visitor and Maybe? Became a Fan but they will get distracted by Farmville or the Happy Island Feed will make them Forget about your Site so what you do about this is use <a href="newwindow.html" target="_blank">a new window</a> so at least your site will not loose visitors to facebook.
Here are the link codes once again
<a href="selftarget.html" target="_top">top</a>
<a href="newwindow.html" target="_blank">a new window</a>
Would these People return to your Site ? or are they just going to get lost in the hotel california of Facebook
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Basically what I am trying to Say here is that People are Joining your Fan Page and Not returning to your site because Once they leave your Site Facebook is a very Distracting Place and you Will be Buried with the other Fan Pages on Facebook ?
agreed with you. once visitors click the widget then they started to explore the fb and almost none of them come back to blog again. In addition after being friend, once again the networkblogs make them easy for not coming to blog. Could you exaggerate further about to install or paste the code you have given as above. I am not sure about how to use it.
What I Done was Copy and Paste the HTML of the code and Pasted it into in my Blog Editor you can use a notepad but the Blog editor not just there for Writing Blog posts:)
Then I selected F3 or Find pressed Highlight and searched for this Line
target="_topit can also be_TOP"if the search is case sensitive and replaced it withtarget="_blank.Meaning links open in a new tab or window and not the Same windowThis is the Reason I needed Opinion on this Post because it is a mixture of How to and Discussion which is Quite Difficult to Write in a way that people Understand
I’m not on facebook, but I do agree. This is true for any link you have on your site that forces people to leave. It’s always good to have it open up in a new window so your site stays in the background… Now if only Google Adsense would do this! :)
Yes this is a Big problem loosing visitors to a site that is maybe your competition I have seen that many times people are talking about a topic or trying to promote a site and Adsense will show ads that are Direct competition.If I were to Talk about my new Directory then Google will show ads for other web Directories.Facebook do the same they show ads for Fanpages on your Fan page then you loose out to the Farmville Fan Page or whatever it maybe
That is true Roezer. If I visited a site for the first time and found something interesting and click on it before I check further and if it open up the page on top of the first site, I easily forget it.
It is a quite important fact that to keep all the links open in new tab or new page. Really important issue even though we really dont care about it.
I think this is a problem that should be looked at for most bloggers that do not want to loose visitors to social networking sites and a solution.
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