Want to post a photo gallery to your Facebook Business page? It's easy! Let me
show you how along with a few best practices I use with my agency clients
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is Jerry Potter (yes it rhymes with the boy wizard) and by the end of this video
you'll be able to create a photo gallery on your Facebook Business Page, as well
as create a post from that photo gallery. And I'll tell you why that's important
to do as well. So here we are on my fake company Facebook page I put together for
an IT company, Dog Gone IT, and there's several places you could go to add a
photo gallery. You could just come down here and you can see Photo Album is
actually one of the defaults just on creating a post. You could also click on
the left here and go to the photos page and create an album that way . So however
you want to get in to it is fine. Once you click on Create Album it's gonna ask
you to choose your photos. It's easiest if you have them all in one place. Since
this is a dog themed IT company I decided to do a bunch of different dog
photos. These are all free stock images I found. So you've got a few things on this
page. First thing is you can name the album. So let's call this the "Dogs of the
Month." Then if there's a location involved you can go ahead and give it a
location - could be your work place if your business is big enough - or you could
just choose a city. This next option here says Hide From News Feed and if you
don't want it to show up in your news feed you would want to check this. Now I'm
gonna recommend that you check it even though it doesn't usually work. This
works about half the time. The reason that I like to check it is because I
think that it actually looks better if you create a post from your gallery
rather than just having the gallery show up. There are some other advantages too but
just so you can see it when we get there I'm gonna go ahead and leave that
unchecked. You can use the day from the photos or just pick a date so you decide
Then you can go through here and you can caption each of these images. So you got
the Dalmatian, you got the dog at sunset or sunrise, you got this dog down here
that's maybe gonna eat this baby, I don't know. So you can caption them exactly the
way you want them. You can also tag people in them so just like you would
any post you type the @ sign and then start to type the person's user name and
then they will come up. Also you can tag people in the photos. Tou can also click
on the photo and tag somebody that way. One more thing, you can do before you
publish them is you can go ahead and rearrange these and believe it or not
the order really does matter. If I just click on one I can move it around
here and you can do this later as well. So let's just leave them like that for
now and then later on I'm going to show you why you might want to rearrange them
If you want to add more photos you can click here on Add Photos down here or at
the top. And then finally when you're ready, go ahead and hit Post. So just like
that here is my gallery. Now if I go to my page you can see it shows up, "added
6 new photos to dogs of the month in Seattle, Washington. "Our favorite dogs we
met this month." It uses that caption and it shows one of the pictures prominently,
and then three others that are kind of blacked out ... grayed out I guess you'd
call it. Now if I want to actually make this into a post I'm going to go up here
and when you click on the timestamp on any post on any of the major social
media platforms - this applies for Twitter and Instagram as well - like down here
where it says July 8th, this one says just now because it just went up, but I'm
gonna right-click on it I'm gonna say Copy Link Address. You could also click
on it and take the link from the top here, but this is what's called the
permalink and that's the permanent link to that post. So I'm gonna go ahead and
copy it to the clipboard. I'm gonna go back to the homepage. I'm gonna paste the
link in and now what this does is this creates a post out of the gallery. And I
want you to notice that not only is the top picture here featured prominently
but now these two pictures are also featured prominently without being grayed
out. So that's why I like to actually create a new post
from the gallery. I just think it looks better in the feed. You can also then
update the caption to be something different if you want
Once your caption is in you can hit Share Now. So as you can see I've now turned
this gallery into its own post and only the last photo here from the preview is
sort of grayed out and the other three are all very prominent, as opposed to our
original gallery where it looked like this. I just think this looks better. I
want to show you one other thing. Remember when I talked about the order
of the images? Well that's the order they're going to show up here. So
whatever you want the best image to be that shows up you want it to be first,
followed by second, third and so on. Now this might be the best image and I think
that's fine that that's first, but I actually think that all three of these
pictures are kind of black and white-ish dogs and I think some of the other ones
had some great color. So I'm gonna go back to my gallery here - I just clicked
on the gallery - and I'm gonna move some of these other ones with different
colors up. So I've got the black and white and then I've got the blue, then
I've got this orange and then we'll do the green. So now that I've rearranged
those, I go back to my original spot here. I'm gonna refresh it and it should
rearrange the photos ... yeah see? So if I'm scrolling through a feed
these first three pictures make me a lot more likely to click through because
when it looked like it was just all the black-and-white dogs, that looks kind of
repetitive. But with this I'm like, "Oh scenery and sunset," so you just want to
order things in a way that those first few pictures will grab people's
attention. Now I know some of you like to do everything on your mobile device so I
want to show you real quick how to do the same thing on your mobile device
Open the Facebook Page app. So I'm gonna tap Photo/Video, opens up my camera roll.
I go ahead and select the photos that I want. Add my caption.
Up here at the top, you'll see in tiny writing there it says Album. If I tap
on that little arrow I can then create a new album. Now you can see Dogs of the
Month there, that's the one I just created on the desktop version. If you
were doing something new you would again put in the name and the
description and hit save. After that it runs about the same on your mobile
device. I suggest doing it on desktop though, you can just see everything a lot
better that way. I hope those tips I gave you that I use with my agency clients
were helpful for your brand or business as well. If you've got any questions let me
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