Rice Blogger

This is simply an application whereby you could add a custom box. In this custom profile you could add your own banner promoting your website, fan page, groups, or even write a message. Previously I have covered how you can create a facebook fan page, and this would be a great tool to promote your fan page.

Simply go add custom profile box as your facebook application. You will even get a WYSIWYG text box to write your own message there. There is also different type of fonts to choose from. The only down side is that the box title always remains as “custom profile box”. You custom box will look something like this:-

As you can see, I am always promoting my Malaysia Classifieds as I am competing with large companies with 5-6 digits budget that is competing with me, so I am always trying to take the first step in doing Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization for my site. Hopefully I will win this challenge.

My first Facebook Pages was actually created by accident. It ended up pretty good as a method to do Marketing via Facebook. The main reason is that you could collect fans and admin them over at the page. Rather than creating a whole new facebook profile, whereby you will need to have a saperate login.

Publicise Feeds

With pages, your feeds are published at the page where user login. This is also the page where everyone tries to keep up with their friends status update. As you can see from the screenshot below.

Message to all fan with just one click

Compare to having another profile, you will need to type the username one by one. What if you have more than 100 friends, or if you have 1000 friends. Are you going to send one by one? With pages, you can just send message to all fan.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

On top of all that, your page is indexed by Google. Search for Malaysia Classifieds Listing, you will see my page third on Google. And it actually have a PageRank with it too (although mine is not high).

I believe the three reason on top is more than enough to have you creating your very first Facebook Page and to market your website right after this.

I have actually succesfully done this by making a Malaysia Classifieds Facebook Page whereby friends could add them as Fan. (you should too if you want classifieds updates on your facebook). So far, I had 147 fan, which is not bad, and I will be expecting more to join. So here is how you can make your own Facebook Page.

Go to Application on the bottom left corner, look for “Ads and Pages”

Click Pages

Then you will come to a blank pages if you have not created one before, click on the “Create Page” on top right corner. Then you continue with the name of your pages.

Now you have you own Facebook Pages. But you are not done yet, because you want to use it to market your feed. And here is how you can add your feed into Facebook Page. Look for the Edit Page on the left panel below the image.

Scroll down, then look for notes, click edit.

Here is the magic that will import your rss feeds into your facebook pages.

You should know the rest after this, there is only 2 steps left, one to write your feed and another to confirm.

It is recommended to at least include some information on your facebook page, also a picture would be decent too.

I have actually encounter some problem getting pagerank for my Malaysia Top 100 List because some website are having different pagerank for www (http://www.domain.com) and without www  (http://domain.com). Tried doing the script for hours and for a break I decided to do a logo for those who are in the Top 100 list.

So here is the banner to be added into your blog:-

I am okay okay only with designing, so bear with me.

Here is the code to add this logo to your blog:-

<a href="http://www.riceblogger.com/top-100-malaysian-blogs/" alt="Malaysia Top 100 Blogs"><img src="http://www.riceblogger.com/rice/malaysia-blogs-160.gif"></a>


It is a 160px width logo that would fit into quite a lot of sidebars, if needed you can download them and edit it to the needed size.

If you like to make money online, this is actually what you should think of rather than following others by making money by blogging. I have actually tried taking a business that is already doing under the brick and motar method. Then convert it into online business. That business actually makes more money in terms of time spend to make a certain money. Of course this business will most probably limited to Malaysia geographical region but you still could sell service that has no boundary right?

The beauty of this business is that people actually look for you rather than you looking for your customer. It is all about Internet Marketing. Currently, it is easy to do that because you will be the pioneer and getting the strong keyword before anyone else. You will have to try the long tail keyword or the long tail market. For example, trying to sell watch, used car, insurance, fishing equipment or any other deals you could make with the retailer. Or maybe you could sell Swine Flu Mask right now.

Finding the right product to sell will be the crucial first step. Because you will have to think if there is competitor, if there is demand, if someone would purchase this online, if someone would search for this product online, if you are ready to sell this product, if you are doing marketing online/offline and a lot of other questions that will be similar to starting a business offline.

Similar to make money blogging, it is not an easy task and majority of people would actually quite before they see any result, but for those who persisted and work harder than the rest would actually see the pot of gold at the end of mountain.

If you have something that would work, you can let me know, and we could do a join venture on the product too .