Facebook Vanity URLs or is it SEO Friendly Web Address
June 13, 2009 · Print This Article
Facebook calls it vanity URL, I call it search engine friendly (or is it user friendly?) web address. This is referring to the news that Facebook is making it possible for their users to choose a user name that is five characters or more long to be their Facebook user name/url for example Facebook.com/odurinde instead of the automatically generate url of this authors Facebook page, which was quite long and contain lot of parameters. The new Facebook vanity url is much easier to remember both for visitors and when giving it out on the phone or via email
The vanity url kicked in on on Friday or to put it into Facebook exact words on the blog where it was announced “Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer” . Keen facebook users were said to have sat by their computer to wait for the appointed time so that they can grab their new SEO friendly style facebook web address.
Though Facebook does not allow the transfer of one Facebook accounts from one user to another (without permission from Facebook) it is well know that Facebook account changes hands for money and sometime for love regularly. This new vanity url is set to fuel a Facebook version of domain squatting with desirable Facebook vanity url acquired by squatters who will then sell it on for money at a later date. Its like a domain land rush but confined to Facebook and its users.
If you want to switch and existing Facebook account to the new search engine friendly version, all you need to do if follow the prompt on your Facebook account once logged in and grab the name you want provided its still available. Existing account does not seem able to choose a name unrelated to the words in your current Facebook profile, you may have to register a completely new account with the keywords you desire to acquire a particular word you are after.
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