Like button on home page header - make them like URL or FP?

Wonder what your thoughts are on this?

The like button is easy to spot and easily utilized in the upper right hand corner of my website, next to a LinkedIn share and Tweet, in a horizontal line. So I have two options when someone comes to the site and clicks that 'like' button.

I can have it 'like' my fan page and gain me a fan.

I can have it 'like' my web site, which posts to their profile that they like the website, which helps spread the word.

Which should I go with? Fan page fans or spreading the world through web site likes? As far as I know, when someone likes the fan page, it isn't necessarily put on their profile.

Any thoughts on the advantages/disadvantages to both?

Thanks!

Liking an external url will always pull up an image, title and description provided you have this og:meta data in your head.

Liking an internal FB page will only show up as a line of text in the news feed whereas an external will stand out more with its image.

#Perhaps you should put a like button for your internal FB page in the top right. and a like button for individual pages somewhere close to the content.

OK. But the way I just understand you, is that the liking a Facebook Fan page only shows up as a line of text and that liking mysite.com will pop up an imagine, title and description and stand out from the crowd.. So that makes liking the site.com preferable - but you say go the other way, and link to the Facebook fan page to gather more fans?

This is just on my home page, it's basically a one-screen landing page so first impression is everything. The content is after 'join now,' so really all I want to do is connect them with me through that like button in the best way possible. And I'm not sure if that's by having them like site.com or facebook.com/fanpage

I utilize both dude, they're equally important

I agree, for deeper in the page. But on that home page, that landing page, you've got that one spot to get a click, which way do you want it going? My format doesn't really allow doing both right in one spot - it's one of the slim horizontal rows, LinkedIn Tweet Like.

So where should the like go in that circumstance?