Saturday, April 9, 2011

How to Share Farmville Love Potion Links on Facebook


Many of you may have already figured out that Farmville's new sheep breeding love potion is a two way street.  If you post love potions, five people can click on it and this will give you five love potions to use for sheep breeding.  However, in addition to you getting love potion, your friends also get a love potions for clicking.  So if you are ever in a situation where you want to share your love potion post with a few select friends, it is important that you know how to do this so that you are able to eventually get all five clicks from your friends.  There are several scenarios which you may find yourself in as far as sharing. 

1. Capturing Link Before Posting: The easiest way to share a love potion is to capture the link before you post.  Unfortunately Mac users cannot do this.  However, if you use a PC, wait until the publish post page comes up and right click on the picture of the love potions.  Then select, copy link location.  The exact wording may differ since I am not looking at a windows computer, but just be sure that you are not copying the image location.  Once you do this, open up chat, and send the link to the friends you wish to send to.  If you shared with less then 5 friends, there is no problem. Wait for confirmation that your friends saw the link and clicked, and then click publish on your potion.  Your potions will post with only 3 or 4 links, or however many you did not share.

2. Posting Link to Particular Friends: The second method for sharing love potion would be to post the potion to particular friends.  This method can be tricky since you don't want to loose potion if your friends do not click it in time.  Before publishing, select customize on the publish to lock image on the left of the publish button.  Select, publish to "specific people" in the first drop down menu.  Then type in the names of the people you want to share with and publish.  Remember to pick at least five people when doing this.  If you do not see them on line, you will want to send them a link to assure they see your post and click.  So go to your wall and right click on the word "give love potion" select copy link location or copy link.  Then make a message on Facebook to your friends, paste the link, and send. Ask your friends to let you know when they got it to assure that you get all five clicks.

3. Posting Viewable to You and Sharing Link: The third method of sharing love potion is to post the potion to yourself, share with a couple of friends and then re-post.  For those of you who have Macs, this may be the best option since you will not be able to grab the link before publishing.  So if you wish to use this method, go to the options box left of the publish button, and click on "only me" for who can view it.  Then go to your wall, and grab the link.  For PC users, right click, for Mac, click control and then click then copy the link location.  Send this link in chat or through a message.  If you have to re-post the remaining links to your wall, you will need to shorten the link or FB will not let you post it.  Also, if you are using this method, you may want to track the click numbers to assure you have all 5. I've included information on how to do this below.

How to Shorten a Link and Re-post it to your Wall
An excellent way to re post a link to your wall is to shorten it.  One site which offers free link shortening is, “bit.ly”  http://bit.ly/  Aside from shortening links, bit.ly allows you to customize link names and track the number of clicks on a link.  Additionally, if you choose to register with your e-mail address you can add the bit.ly sidebar to your bookmark menu for fast and easy access. 

Tracking Clicks on a your Link
One last note on sharing love potion is that it is a risky thing since you might not get all 5 potions from your post if one of your friends does not see the link or does not click in time.  One way to assure you got all 5 clicks is to use the tracking function on bit.ly.  After signing in and shortening your link, bit.ly has a section that you can go to which allows you to manage your links.  Click on this section and you will see the stats for how many clicks the link had.  This will also include info on the time the link was clicked and what country the clicks came from. 
Finally, all of these same methods can be used for sharing lamb links, tree links or any other type of post.  I hope that this information will help you to share your love potions more easily and without risking the loss of your own love potion in the process.

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