Lots of people have set up a vanity URL for their Facebook profile, making it easier for people to remember their Facebook profile address – mine is http://www.facebook.com/nikkipilkington
But not everyone realises that they can do the same for their Facebook fan page.
Simply visit http://www.facebook.com/username/ where you should see the following (with your name replacing mine, of course!)
Clicking on the ’set a username for your Pages’ should bring up a list of any fan pages you are Admin of. Then you can choose your name.
Choose something easy to remember, and relevant to your business. I went for http://www.facebook.com/internetmarketingbynikki
Remember though, once you’ve chosen it you can’t change it, so choose well!
Also, you can’t get a username until you have 25 fans, so make sure you’re promoting your Facebook fan page well!
There are more details on Vanity URLs / Usernames for Facebook Fan Pages here: http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=900
Feel free to post a link to your Fan Page in the comments below – I’m looking for good examples to feature in future blog posts.
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Thanks for the prompt, FB have been messing around with the number of fans you need, and I hadn’t realised that they had returned to 25.
www. facebook.com/london.rent
Top Tip. Everyone should set a username for their pages as soon as possible – and keep it memorable. It makes it _so_ much easier to direct people to your page – and for them to find you autonomically!
This is encouraging – I wasn’t sure at first whether Facebook was really the right place for a business presence, but it seems all the big guns are doing it, so if their expensive marketing advisers are on board, then it seems naive not to follow suit.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/living-in-a-pretty-how-town/157744123659?ref=ts
Although, now, the word on the street is that Network blogs is the way to go. Any thoughts?
http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/heather_jenkinson_blog/
Heather, you can set Networked blogs to feed into your Fan Page – it’s useful in that you don’t have to remember to post your blog posts as links, but i prefer in most cases to control the timing of the blogs being posted, which I can’t do with networked blogs. I do use Networked blogs to promote my blog though
Really helpful post, thanks – I haven’t reached the magic 25 fans yet, but one of my clients has so I shall set theirs up. My “Jane Brocklebank Marketing” page is currently an unwieldy …
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Maidenhead-United-Kingdom/Jane-Brocklebank-Marketing/70204282564?ref=ts
My client, a family retreat in Cornwall is now http://www.facebook.com/therosevine
So much better, thanks Nikki
Thanks, Nikki, for pointing out that the number required for a vanity URL had returned to 25. Last time I looked it was 100, so that prompted me to do a bit of promoting and I went from 6 members to 43 in two days. Small numbers yes but growing …
I’m beginning to work out how to actually use the page and need to get the Networked blogs feed sorted (which will move me towards writing a proper blog regularly).
Anyway my fan page is http://www.facebook.com/personalchangemagic. It does make a difference having a URL I can remember as opposed to something structured the way Jane’s used to be!
Hi, I really like the way you have your won Facebook page – nice mix of personal and business. I’ve been reluctant to use Facebook as a business tool in the past but you have won me over.
Hey thanks for the tips. I have taken them into account on my fanpage. http://www.facebook.com/socialexplosion
I wish I´d read your advice earlier!
Through playing around I managed to name my page on facebook but it is linked to my personal page not the fan page for the magazine…. oops!
Any way I can change it?
Many thanks for any help
Lisa
Lisa, the link you’ve given is just a vanity url for your Facebook profile – once you’ve done this you can’t change it, so you’ll have to choose a different one for the fan page unfortunately!
I’ve now got enough fans to rename my page as:
http://www.facebook.com/janebrocklebankmarketing
It’s still long, but that’s down to my name!!
Thanks again for the post … really useful