Add a Vanity URL to Your Facebook Page
Recently Facebook allowed its users to claim their own vanity URL for their personal Facebook profiles.. I claimed mine.
If you don’t already know a vanity URL is a domain name of your choosing, that points to your Facebook profile.
By default everyone’s Facebook profile URL is a long string of random characters,
eg http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789
A vanity URL for your Facebook profile would look something like,
eg http://www.facebook.com/yourname
Having your own Facebook vanity URL is a lot easier to remember when asking people to friend you, or when sending people a link to your profile.. it’s your little piece of Facebook real-estate.
You have spent time a fair bit of time creating your profile, and claiming your own URL makes it that little bit better.
Facebook Page
For those who have a Facebook Page (in addition to their Facebook Profile), getting a vanity URL to promote their business, brand or product wasn’t as easy.
Your Page had to have a minimum of 1000 fans. Once you reached this minimum amount of fans, you were then eligible to choose a vanity URL.
Facebook have now changed this minimum to 25 fans. So getting a vanity URL for your Facebook Page has just become a lot easier and I will show you how.
For starters, you need your own Facebook Page (with at least 25 fans).. if you don’t have one, follow my guide on how to Create a Page for your Business on Facebook.
Head to Facebook Username and then click on Set a username for your Page,
Click on the drop-down menu and under Pages, select your Facebook Page,
Now enter the username that you want for your Facebook Page, eg facebook.com/username, then click on <Check availability>,
If the username you have selected is available, and you definitely want it, click on <Confirm>,
The username for your Facebook Page has just been set!
Click on <Okay> to finish,
Just follow this same procedure if you want to do them same for your personal Facebook profile.
Directing customers and fans of your business or product is now a lot easier.. simply tell them your Facebook Page URL!
If you haven’t already done so you should also Add a Facebook Fan Button to your Website.
If you found this post useful please visit my Facebook Page at,
http://www.facebook.com/TheSocialMediaGuide
.. and become a fan!
Enjoy!
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13 Comments
I got someone to create a facebook fan page for my business, then I got the required number of fans and applied for my username. I didn't have a personal profile at the time. When setting my business username Facebook insisted that I create a personal first, but then it associated the username with my personal profile so its completely useless! Do you know if its possible to get the username redirected to my busines page? – I can't find anything on the web about this.
Can the name of vanity url be changed ? Is it case sensitive ?
No it can't be changed.
It isn't case sensitive – my page is http://www.facebook.com/TheSocialMediaGuide.. but http://www.facebook.com/thesocialmediaguide will also work.
Nice work and thanks for the comment!
Thanks so much for this…Like the rest of the comments below I was of the impression we had to have 1000 fans…so glad they've changed the rules…and so glad you've let everyone know!!!
Nice work.
Thank you! Very helpful. Just set up my vanity URL. So awesome.
No worries. Thanks for dropping by.————————————————–
thanks for posting
Hi StaceyFacebook seem to always be chopping and changing their rules. But it is good that the minimum is currently 25. Matt________________________
Nice work! Glad it worked out for you. Thank for the comment. ________________________
Thanks so much for posting this! This is the first time I have heard of getting a vanity URL by having a minimum of only 25 fans. Most articles still cite Facebook as requiring 1,000 fans. Fantastic!
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