Comments on: Facebook Vanity URLs : Good for Facebook & SEO

By: Minneapolis Web Design Guy

Minneapolis Web Design Guy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:30:33 +0000

Fun to read this after the dust has settled. Really only made people & brands dominate the serps for brand related keywords.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:40:31 +0000

FB is blending advertising with content users are sharing. The URLs make the brand more transmittable and accessible, while the ads invite users to create and disseminate co-created content. This branded content then becomes increasingly public and relevant.

http://christianprada.net/2009/07/branding-with-facebooks-vanity-urls/

By: Business Web Coach

Business Web Coach — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:43 +0000

Finally: Facebook Vanity URLs

I did manage to get my personal facebook vanity URL. I made sure to rush in and get it the first day that it was available. The next challenge was to get the vanity URL for fan pages that I have created, that wasn’t so easy. Since fan pages I have created don’t already have 1,000 fans, I have to wait until 6/28 to try to get my fan page vanity urls. Hang on to that date if you are in the same boat.

By: sohbet

sohbet — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:12:55 +0000

thankks you sohbet chat

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:25:24 +0000

Yaaay, got mine at 9:01pm (PST) – http://www.facebook.com/hotspots

Checked a bunch of generic names and they were not available and neither were they registered so I guess that they were trying to avoid people selling them on eBay :)

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:10:18 +0000

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By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:18:36 +0000

So it seems FB still doesnt offer this feature to all of its creators of fan pages?

By: nick

nick — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:06:15 +0000

yeah tiny-fb.com has been doing that for facebook users for ages. creates your own tiny-fb.com/yourname site for your facebook account. makes it easier to twit, sms, email and randomly jot down your facebook details to people.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:28:50 +0000

Does the fact that one of the fan pages about was called Maker’s Mark and the other Maker’s Mark Whiskey, mean that at least the system won’t create two pages with the exact same name?

By: Scott Blogs

Scott Blogs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:43:32 +0000

Seems to me that this would be something that is easy – add a field where the user can enter a custom vanity URL, then when loading the pages a simply if statement to check to see if that field was populated, if it was, use the new URL, if not, use the old lengthy one.

(Sure there would be a bit more to it than that, but really, overall, not THAT big of a deal to make the switch)