Nowadays, it’s deemed a must for

brands, restaurants, companies, website owners and even bloggers to have their own Facebook page. It doesn’t just allow them to promote their products, services, posts or contents in a more effective and faster way (since almost everyone now is on Facebook), but also it lets you communicate with your audience better and more personally.

Why Monitor the number of your Facebook Fans/Followers?

Exactly why would anyone want to monitor their Facebook page’s followers, fans or “likers”? There can be many reasons behind this, including the following which are my reasons why I’ve been observing our Facebook followers and their activities:

• Monitoring your success towards your goals. Are you able to reach your target audience? Are you keeping your followers interested?
• Hosting giveaways or promos where winners must also be among your Facebook followers.
• You can even use the report you’d generate to better understand your followers.

Tips on Monitoring Facebook Fans / Followers

This is pretty easy. I strongly suggest that if you just started a Facebook page, then, start a list of your followers right away. Make it a habit to update it daily so you won’t be way behind once the numbers spike, especially when you’re generating very high and stable increase in followers.

How to Get a List of Your Facebook Fans / Followers?

Very simple. Here’s the link (right-click or click on the link to open and just copy the URL):

http://www.facebook.com/browse/page_fans/?page_id=YourPageIDNumber&notif_t=page_new_likes

I underlined and emphasized on the part that you MUST edit. You have to replace that with your Facebook Fan page’s page ID number.

If you already have a username set up for your page (you can do so when you have over 25 fans / followers already), then, it’ll be a li’l tricky.

How to get your Facebook Page’s ID Number?

1. If you already have a username for your Facebook page, then, here’s how to get the page ID number:

On your page, click on the Edit Page button on the upper right side:

Once you’re on the Edit Settings page, the URL / address will show your page’s ID number, as highlighted on the image below:

2. If you don’t have a username yet, then, you simply go to your Facebook page and check the URL / address. Here’s an example. The page # is highlighted:

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Again, just use that page ID to replace the “YourPageIDNumber” on the link below and open the link on your browser to see the list of your Facebook followers, arranged by most recent to your first ever “liker”. 🙂

http://www.facebook.com/browse/page_fans/?page_id=YourPageIDNumber&notif_t=page_new_likes

That’s it! Easy, right? Well, that is, if you’ve been doing this for a long time. Otherwise, it’d be pretty difficult to monitor your followers if you’re going to start from fan #1. Good luck! 😉

Since my 2 blogs are celebrating their anniversaries very soon, I wanted to push a giveaway where I’ll have winners among my Facebook Page’s followers / likers alone. For Pinay Reviewer, I’m planning on giving away beauty stuff like makeup, face products I’ve used and believe in, and some accessories. Nothing really fancy liketitanium braceletssince I won’t be asking for sponsors (well, unless someone approaches me directly), but for sure, most of the products I reviewed will be included. I haven’t updated my list for 2 weeks now so checking the list again will take a long time. I might hire someone to do this for me, someone I trust since it’ll require me to give them admin access.