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With the new Timeline for Facebook Pages, you’ve lost the ability to set default landing tabs.  This makes it more important to drive users directly into your FanGate tabs and we’re announcing a feature to do just that.  Every Woobox HTML Page Tab now has its own unique shareable URL to bypass the Timeline and take a user straight into a tab.  Unlike Facebook’s long tab URLs, Woobox tab URLs let you customize your Open Graph data to select a title, description, and image for each page tab.
All Woobox HTML Tabs now have Shareable Tab URLs
Have you ever tried to share a Facebook tab URL? By default, when users share a Facebook page tab’s URL (using the old, inconvenient copy & …

Earlier this year, we introduced a feature called FriendGate for Custom Tabs, and this week we’re happy to announce another gating option: FormGate.  This new feature allows you to require visitors to complete an input form before accessing your tab content.  It can be used with or without turning on FriendGate and/or FanGate.   We’re offering FormGate for Free through November 2011.  Afterwards it will be part of the Woobox Plus plan.

You can create your FormGate page from the Tab Settings of your custom tab.   Form inputs are entered using HTML, but can be customized using the WYSIWYG Editor.  As with many of our apps and features, FormGate collects and stores the submitted data for you.  You can view a …

There is a new Facebook bug that has changed the behavior of FanGates for the default landing tab.   If you use the Default Landing Tab setting on your Facebook page and show non-fans different content on your tab this bug is affecting you.
Normally, when non-fans visit your Facebook page, they will automatically be sent to the page tab you have set as your Default Landing Tab.  When visitors press your Like button, Facebook would refresh the page and send the user back to the same default landing tab where using a tab app like the Woobox Custom Tab you could show them fan-only content.  The new Facebook bug #19778 breaks this process.  Instead of taking the new fan back to your default …

Today, were announcing the launch of our latest Facebook app feature called FriendGate!   You can now require that a user must have a minimum number of friends who Like your Facebook page before they can view your page tab’s content.  We want everyone to try it, so it’s Free through August 31st!
We’ve added friend gating to our Woobox Custom Tab app.  Using the custom tab app you can restrict any HTML content behind both a Like to reveal and the new FriendGate.  You can also use both features at the same time to ensure that the user Likes your page and has N friends who like your page.   The default view shows a user all of the friends …

You can now see the number of daily fans and non-fans that view your Facebook page tabs.  With the Woobox Custom Tab, we just added stats for non-fan visits, non-fan page views, fan visits, fan page views, and likes. Likes is an interesting stat that helps you determine how many of the non-fan visitors who see your page tab click the like button.  This stat can really help you maximize the conversion rate of your fan-gated content.  In addition to the great graphs, you can export the past 90 days of stats into a spreadsheet to do your own reports.  Try it now by installing a custom page tab.