By Mari Smith

“For some time, I’ve been raving about the benefits of having your non-fans land on a specific, custom landing tab on your Facebook Fan Page.

When you send visitors to your Facebook Fan Page, previously, you could have them land on a Welcome Tab, for instance – the purpose of which was to help visitors understand what your business is about and to compel them to want to join your Fan Page.”

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From Lori at Social Media Design

“Facebook, in a sneaky, shocking development to small businesses, suddenly let it slip in a Facebook developers forum that they are no longer going to let new people to your Facebook Fan Page see your custom landing tabs, such as the oft recommended Welcome tab, complete with video, eye catching graphics, and an invitation to “like” the Page.

Ironically enough, this very afternoon I just got done filming and editing welcome videos for this site and for my Facebook Fan Page, when Social Media Examiner posted this news on their wall:

“No longer do new Facebook see custom tabs. Only fan pages with 10,000 fans or who spend money on Facebook for ads will have this option. To see this, simply log out of facebook and pull up your fan page. (props to Damian Leszczyński and Mari Smith for informing me).”

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