When someone likes your Facebook page, you will get notified in a few different ways. Facebook has set up the platform to allow page owners and administrators to track when new people like their page and start engaging with the content.
Notifications in page notifications
The primary way you will get notified when someone new likes your Facebook page is through the page notifications. Page notifications show you any new activity that happens on your Facebook page, including when someone new likes your page, comments on a post, shares a post, etc.
To access your page notifications, go to your Facebook page and click on “Notifications” in the top toolbar. This will open up a drop-down menu showing you a list of all recent notifications for your page.
The notifications are sorted with the newest activities at the top. You can scroll through the notifications to see any new likes for your page mixed in with other notifications.
Likes on your Facebook page will show up in the notifications like this:
[Person’s Name] and [Number] others liked your page.
So you will get a notification each time someone new likes your page. The notification will tell you the name of the person who liked your page, and the total number of new likes if there are multiple in a short period.
Notifications in page inbox
In addition to page notifications, you may also get notified of new page likes in your page inbox. This works similarly to the message inbox for your personal Facebook profile.
To access your page inbox, click on “Messages” in the top toolbar from your page. Any new likes or follower notifications will show up there.
The page inbox provides the same notifications as the page notifications dropdown, just in a different inbox format. So you have two places where you can check for notifications when someone new interacts with your page.
Email notifications
The third way you can get notified of new page likes is via email notifications. Facebook allows you to setup email updates that can send you notifications when you get new page likes.
To enable email notifications:
- Go to your page and click “Settings” in the top toolbar
- Click on “Notifications” in the left sidebar
- Under “Page notifications delivered via Email”, click Edit
- Turn on the toggle for “Someone likes your Page”
- Click “Save Changes”
Once email notifications are enabled, you will get an email sent to your associated email address anytime someone new likes your page.
The email will contain details on who liked your page and when they liked it. This gives you another way to passively monitor new likes for your page outside of logging into Facebook.
Seeing likes with Facebook Insights
In addition to notifications, you can also track new page likes using Facebook Insights. Insights provides analytics and metrics for your Facebook page.
To see your page like data in Insights:
- Navigate to your Facebook page
- Click on “Insights” in the top toolbar
- Click on the “Likes” section in the left sidebar menu
This will show you graphs and metrics for your page likes over time. It can help you track growth and see when you got spikes or drops in new page likes.
Using Insights you can view likes per day, week, month, and for longer custom date ranges. You can also view demographic data on the people liking your page like age, gender, location, etc.
Other notification options
In addition to the main notification options covered already, there are a couple other ways you may get notified of new page likes:
- Mobile push notifications – If you have the Facebook app installed on your phone or tablet, you can enable push notifications to alert you of major page activity like new likes.
- Facebook Page Manager app – The Facebook Page Manager app for mobile can send you notifications when people like your page. This works similarly to the main Facebook app.
- Third-party social media management tools – If you use a tool like Hootsuite to manage your Facebook page, some of these tools have options to alert you of new page likes.
Do followers get notified of new page likes?
If you’re wondering whether your existing Facebook page followers get notified when new people like your page, the answer is no.
Likes are only reported to the page owner and administrators through the methods covered already.
Followers and existing page likers will not get any type of notification when new people like the page. The notifications are only sent to people with admin access to the page.
Ways to see who liked your Facebook page
While Facebook sends notifications when new people like your page, you may also want to know who has already liked your page. There are a couple of ways to see a list of the people who have already liked your Facebook page.
Page Likes list
The easiest way is through the “Likes” list on your Facebook page itself. To access this:
- Go to your Facebook page
- Click on the number of total “Likes” shown below your cover photo
This will open up a list of all the people who have liked your page so far. You can browse through the list to see the names and profiles of the users who like your page.
Facebook Insights
Another way to see page likers is through the Insights section for your page. In the “Likes” section of Insights, click on “See All” below the graph visualizations.
This will show a table list of all your page likes over time. It will include the name and profile pic for each person who liked your page.
This list can get lengthy for pages with a lot of likes. But it’s another way to export a list of the people liking your page outside of the main Likes list.
Options for liking a Facebook page
When people like your Facebook page, they have a couple different options for interacting with your page. Here are the ways people can like and follow a Facebook page:
Regular Page Like
The standard option is to fully “Like” a page. This adds it to the person’s list of liked pages and subscribes them to updates from the page.
When people like your page this way, you will get full notifications as covered already.
Notification Toggle
After liking a page, people have the option to turn notifications on or off. So someone could like your page but then disable notifications so they don’t see your page posts in their feed.
Even with notifications off, these people will still count as liking your page. And you will still get a notification when they originally like your page.
Follow Button
Some Facebook pages have a Follow button instead of a Like button. When people follow a page, they get page updates but the page doesn’t show up as “liked” on their profile.
You can get notifications when people start following your page. But following works a bit differently than fully liking a page.
Managing notifications
As a page owner, you have some control over your notification settings for new likes and followers:
- Turn email notifications on or off
- Mute certain notification types
- Filter notifications by interaction type
- Mark all notifications as read
Using these controls, you can customize when and how you get notified of new page likes to fit your preferences.
You can reduce notifications if you are getting too many. Or increase notifications if you want more ways to track page growth.
Using Facebook Analytics for Pages
Facebook Analytics is an additional free tool page owners can use for better insight into page likes and followers.
With Analytics you can:
- See your follower demographic data broken down by age, gender, location etc.
- Identify your most engaged followers
- Set up advanced remarketing tools for ads and posts
- Integrate your Facebook data with other analytics platforms
So if you want deeper analytics beyond Insights, check out Facebook Analytics for your page.
Third-party tools
There are also third-party applications you can connect to your Facebook page to enhance your administrative tools and notifications.
Social media management tools like Hootsuite and Sprout Social have advanced workflows and alerts for tracking Facebook page likes and followers. You can get custom notifications and reports through integrating one of these tools with your Facebook page.
Using an external like counter
Another option is to display an external like counter box on your website that updates in real-time when someone likes your Facebook page.
Tools like Social Pug can add a little widget to your site that shows your current Facebook page like count. This lets visitors see your page’s popularity on your own website.
Best practices for Facebook pages
Here are some tips to keep in mind when managing your Facebook page:
- Post engaging content regularly to grow your page audience organically
- Use high quality visuals like photos and videos in your posts
- Engage with followers by responding to comments and messages
- Analyze your data in Insights to inform content strategies
- Create conversion points like email signup forms or landing pages
- Run Facebook ads to reach more potential page likers
- Tag relevant accounts and use strategic hashtags
- Share your page with your existing networks and contacts
Conclusion
Growing your Facebook page likes takes work, but the platform provides page owners with the tools to monitor engagement and reach new audiences. Using the Facebook notifications, Insights, and analytics options covered here, you can stay on top of new likes and followers of your page. This allows you to track your growth and adapt your content strategy accordingly. Staying engaged with your growing community of page likers will continue leading to more awareness and followers.