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Now that you've decided to Use the Places Editor App on the Facebook Website and now that you've thought about using the Suggest Edits Feature. Here in this article are the steps to use, to help guide you through this feature of the app, so you may use it more efficiently, and you won't be "as lost" as you were before you started reading this article.

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tool no longer used within the app. You may be interested in How to Use the Places Editor App on Facebook instead. (Posted 2015-02-15).


Steps

  1. Use the Suggest Edits Feature for the Places Editor App on Facebook Step 1.png
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    Open your web browser and visit the Suggest Edits Feature of the Places Editor App on Facebook.
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    Decipher the name and city of the business. These can be found at the very top of the app in bolder print than all the other fields.
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    Decipher what info you need to find. It might be either the name, category, street address, city and state, zip code, phone number, website, or email address.
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    Click the "Find on Bing" link at the bottom of the screen. Clicking this will prefill Bing's search bar with the proper search information (plainly the name of the business, along with the city and state of the location.
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    Decipher the exact street address from the screen that comes up. Make sure this address is the same as the one you are looking up information for later. You may choose to write it down somewhere, or you may recite this back from memory later; however you choose to remember it, you'll need to type this in later, so remember every single character and every single number.
    • Clicking the link should take you to a separate tab of your browser, no matter what your real settings are aimed to do with links opening.
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    Click the Web tab of the Bing search engine. This should give you verifiable links for which you can grab the information you'll need. See if any of these listings are the real place of the business.
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    Read the information on this Bing search page.
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    Copy and Paste the information, as you receive it.
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    Click back into the tab that is displaying the app itself.
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    Repeat for any other information the Places Editor app will ask you for. Copy and paste the business contact info (line-for-line), from the resultant page to your app. But don't save yet!
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    Switch back into the Bing website. You'll need to grab the official website address for the company.
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    Verify the places that have been prefilled into the app are correct.
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    Click the "Next place" button to save your work.
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Tips

  • If there are ever lots of fields which are filled in already, you may click the "Hide already filled Fields" link to stop these filled fields from displaying.
  • During a major reconstruction of the app, not only can you import names and edits for all needed areas, but there are now separated areas from which you can pick. They now have separated areas to suggest categories and business hours, on top of the suggest edits area such as before.
  • You can also call the company, and ask an employee for their web address
  • Phone numbers and websites are typed with all the special characters including all parentheticals and the ://-formatting.
  • If the app says its met all its requirements for the item, it may have inadvertently found a location that has other info to fix in another app. Transfer to the other apps by opening the drop-down button in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and try searching until it finds the right app or another place in the suggested location. It is especially common to have this happen when you search in a non-metropolitan/bigger town/smaller city.
    • You may also click the "Next place" button to advance to the next item that needs fixing. Whatever strikes your fancy!

Warnings

  • Don't ever use the search pages URL or any other fan page or any other review site for the location, when filling out the website field.
  • When typing in an email address, always fill it is as the email is the email address to a high-ranking official for the company. Never use your own email address in the text box for email.

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