How to ask campaign participants to become followers of a Facebook fanpage

1. Introduction
2. Step by step
  2.1. How to include a pop-up to recommend your Facebook profile
3. Other specifications
4. Related content

1. Introduction

You've probably seen sweepstakes, contests, and promotions on Facebook that require users to follow the page as a condition to participate. However, this practice isn't allowed, as stated in Facebook's Developer Policies.

This means it's not correct to require users to become followers in order to participate. You can recommend it, but you can't set it as a condition.

Since this is a practice Facebook discourages, its API doesn't allow external apps to automatically access or collect this information. Because of this, it's not possible to know whether the participants in your campaign or contest are followers of your page.

As an alternative, in registration-form campaigns created with Cool Tabs, you can enable and customize a pop-up recommending that participants and/or voters follow your fan page.

2. Step by step

2.1. How to include a pop-up to recommend your Facebook profile

You can enable and customize this pop-up in the 'Sharing options' section of the campaign editor. Check the option 'Suggest your participants like your Facebook page(s), Twitter, Instagram and/or Pinterest profiles' and enter the URL of your fan page.

You can include one or several fan pages, as well as Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest profiles.

You can also customize the header that appears in the pop-up. By default, it shows "Follow our updates at:".

3. Other specifications

This feature is available for campaigns created with the Gold and Diamond plans.

If you have any questions, contact us at help@cool-tabs.com.

4. Related content

How to customize the messages shared on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.