Posting Classified Ads on Facebook

[Scott Tichenor]

Dan just made a change to the Classifieds I've been thinking about implementing. Thanks, Dan. For those of you with Facebook accounts that are selling on the Classifieds, or for those FB users that would like to share various ads on your Facebook account, we've implemented a simplified way to do that with a single-click.

On the attached screen shot, when you are in single view mode on the Classifieds, meaning you're displaying just a single ad, you'll see an icon linking to Facebook that when clicked, and if you have an account, will auto-display the ad in your FB. If you are in multi-ad view (here's what that looks like) you won't see that link. Why not show it in the latter view? Because Facebook doesn't appear to allow us to pluck a single item out of a long page of ads that I'm aware of at this time, although I intend to research this further.

Why do this at all? Because if you're selling, you want as many opportunities as possible for people to see your ad. This allows a Facebook user to display a link to your ad and the ad image even if the ad owner doesn't have a Facebook account, and I think that's a desirable outcome.

There may be questions about making changes to the ad appearance in preview mode within FB before it's actually posted. That's actually a Facebook question but suppose many of us can answer that if need be.

Questions?

[Ted Eschliman]

Cool! Works great. Thanks, Scott & Dan! I see Martin S took advantage of this, too.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Nice

[jaco]

Great idea!

[floyd floar]

Thanks Mr. T. and Dan- It works fine. Another improvement in the world of mandolin brought to you by Mr. T.

[Scott Tichenor]

Just a note for you folks that have been posting these, and I've seen a few on FB... you can remove those ads that show up partially after you click the link and are presented with the opportunity to post on FB. All you have to do is click in that box and it'll allow you to remove those. I' recommend removing those!

[Scott Tichenor]

Here are three screen shots that show that sequence of how you remove those unwanted ads:

[Scott Tichenor]

This is evolving. Thought came to mind that sometimes when you're browsing in multi-ad view it'd be helpful to have a link in the ad that would take you to a listing so it's the only ad on the page. This is handy in case you want to bookmark a single ad or send someone a direct link to it. So, added that. Doing so just happens to also display the FB link so two birds with one stone.

[mrmando]

Tried the new Twitter link in Classifieds.

Firefox: didn't work at all
IE8: worked, but the bit.ly link goes to the main Classifieds page, not to my ad