4 Steps to Link Your Facebook Profile to Your Fanpage

Suppose you have a Facebook profile that you use for personal use and and a fanpage for business or a particular interest you may have and you want to link from your profile to your fanpage.

Sometimes it is as easy as going to your profile, clicking editing profile, selecting education and work, and typing in the name of your page in the employer field. It might pop up and link to your fan page, but there is a glitch in Facebook and many people have trouble linking the two pages.

If you are one of them, here are the 4 steps to make this happen:

Step 1 - Firefox Web Developer Add On

You will need to use the Mozilla Firefox browser for this step. Do a search for "web developer ad on" as you will need this add on for Firefox. Download it, install it, and you will have a new toolbar to use for step 4 or any other time you may need.

Step 2 - Copy Your Page ID Number

First, you will go to your Facebook fanpage and click "edit page". On the left side, you will click on "Basic Information". Once on the basic information page, you will go to the URL at the top to retrieve your page ID. Your page ID will be a long series of numbers in the URL that follow?ID=.

Select, copy those digits, and paste them in an editor if need be. Remember, you only want the numbers; if you went pass the &, you went too far.

Step 3 - Add Your Fanpage Name to Your Facebook Profile

Go back to your personal profile, click edit profile, and then "education and work". Here you will type in the exact name of your fanpage. It may or may not pop up, but either way make sure you type it in exact and hit enter and you will add it regardless.

Step 4 - Paste Your Fanpage ID# into the Form

While still on your personal profile edit page, click "education and work" if you are not there. This is where you will need the Firefox Web Developer Tool bar. While on the education and work page, go to your tool bar and click "Forms", which is the 4th option from the right, and then click the first option "Display Form Details". You will see a bunch of "yellowish code" pop up. This is what you want.

Scroll down until you see Employer: input name="employer_id", and a gray input box. In this box, put the Fanpage ID# you copied earlier.

Now, when you go to your personal profile in Facebook, you should have a link to your fanpage.