How To Tag a Business on Facebook

Tagging your business or a friend’s business on Facebook is another way to drive traffic to the page which will later bring a lot of benefits to the pages on Facebook.

Facebook has become the world’s biggest social media platform with about 2.74B monthly active users. This is more reason for you to establish your business on the platform.

Those of us who have already created business pages for our brands can agree with me that organic reach on Facebook has reduced drastically that if care is not taken, your carefully crafted marketing content on your pages won’t be seen by your page followers.

Facebook has done that because it wants more businesses to use its advertising services, that is, they want businesses to pay for their content to be seen by more users on the platform.

But all hope isn’t lost, as we still have other ways of increasing organic reach and traffic to our business pages without having to pay for Facebook ads.

One of the ways to increase organic reach and traffic for your business page is by tagging your business page in posts and pictures.

In this article, we will be looking at the freeway to promote our business on Facebook by learning how to tag a business on Facebook.

Let’s get started…

How To Tag A Business On Facebook In Easy Steps

To tag a business on Facebook, follow these easy steps;

At first, it was easy to tag a business on Facebook but Facebook has made some changes on its platform to prevent spamming so you can’t easily tag a business on Facebook using the normal method.

Normal method:

Go to Facebook.com on your browser
Login to your Facebook account
Locate the feed post you want to tag the business under
Go to the comment section of the post and tap on “@” followed by the name of the business page on Facebook
Click Enter and the business will be tagged under the post.

NB: This method isn’t working again. We will be looking at the working method.

How To Tag A Business On Facebook Using Your Desktop

Go to Facebook.com on your browser
Login to your Facebook account
Go to the Facebook business page that you want to tag

When you get to the business page, go to your search bar and clear the extension after your business name. Clear this part from the URL (?ref=pages_you_manage)
Copy the rest of the URL in the search bar
Go to the post you want to tag the business under
Locate the comment box then past the URL of the business page you copied and paste it in the comment box.

Hit Enter. The business page will be tagged in the comment section of the post.

How To Tag A Business On Facebook Using Your Facebook App

Open your Facebook App
Login to your Facebook account
Locate the post you want to tag the business page under
Tap the comment box to start writing your comment
Select “@” on your keypad and add the name of the business page to it
The business page will pop up, select it
Press Enter and the business will be tagged under the comment section of the post.

How To Tag A Business On Facebook In A Picture

Open your Facebook App
Login to your Facebook account
Locate the picture you want to tag the business page on
Click on the Tag icon located on top of the image
Start typing the business name in the search box
When the name of the business pops up, tap on it
The business will be tagged on the image

Why Should You Tag a Business on Facebook?

Tagging a business on Facebook comes with a lot of benefits, lets look at a few of them;

New followers for the business page.

Tagging a business on Facebook can bring new followers to the page. People who are interacting with the post under which you tagged the business page will be able to see the page and follow the link to see what the page talks about and if they like the content on the page, they might follow the page to receive updates whenever the page posts new content.

Increase in organic traffic.

Tagging a business can help increase the number of people visiting the business page on Facebook. It brings you more visibility since the people interacting with the post will be able to see your page and get a direct link that sends them straight to your business page.

It brings recognition to your business.

Tagging your business under a post on Facebook brings more eyeballs to your business page. Upon seeing your business page being tagged under someone’s post, users will be willing to go to your business page to see the type of content you post over there.

You can get interested customers to your business page.

When you tag your business under a post on Facebook, it allows you to direct potential clients to your Facebook business page. Imagine tagging your graphic design business page under a post that is seeking graphic design services. You are likely to win that customer by making it simple for them to find your business on Facebook.

Conclusion On How to Tag a Business on Facebook

Tagging a business on Facebook brings a lot of benefits to your business page including driving traffic to your business page, getting interested customers to your page, new followers, recognition, and many more. This helps to increase your brand awareness on the platform and also boost your organic traffic.

Tagging unnecessarily also isn’t healthy for your business on the platform, it indicates to users on the platform that you are just spamming and not actually providing any value so even though you would like to tag your business for all the above benefits, you would like to do it judiciously, by tagging your business under relevant post whenever it deems necessary for you to tag your business.