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How to Get a Custom URL for Your Facebook Page in Five Easy Steps - DailyBlogTips

How to Get a Custom URL for Your Facebook Page in Five Easy Steps - DailyBlogTips


How to Get a Custom URL for Your Facebook Page in Five Easy Steps

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:44 AM PST

Does your Facebook page's URL look something like this?

www.facebook.com/My-Facebook-Page/303188632181849

By default, your Facebook page's URL is made up of your page's name plus a long number. If you want to put the URL on your business card, or spell it out over the phone, this is obviously not ideal.

The good news is that you can create a custom URL (sometimes called a "vanity URL") with a username and no number, like this:

www.facebook.com/myfbpage

In the past, you needed 25 likes to do this, but you can now do this at any time – even when you're setting up your page.

It only takes a couple of minutes to secure your custom URL, so do it today if at all possible: the longer you delay, the higher the chance that someone will take the username that you want!

1. Login to Facebook and go to your page. (You can find it in the left-hand column of your Facebook home page, under Pages.)

2. At the top of your admin panel, click "Edit page" and select "Update Page Info", as shown in the screenshot below:

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You’ll then see this at the top of the Page Info tab:

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3. Under "Page Address", click the "Enter a Facebook web address" link, then click the new link that appears – "Create a web address for this Page?"

4. Your page should be automatically selected from the drop-down menu. Enter the username you want and click "Check availability". You'll need to make sure your username fits Facebook's guidelines.

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5. Make sure you're happy with your username (and double-check the spelling) before confirming it. Once you’re sure you’re happy, click “Confirm”.

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And that's it! You should see this confirmation message:

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Your old URL will redirect to the new one, so you don't need to worry about updating your previous links.

Have you had a custom Facebook page URL for ages, or did this post prompt you to get yours? Let us know in the comments.

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ProBlogger: Get to Know Your Readers: An Example of When It Counts

ProBlogger: Get to Know Your Readers: An Example of When It Counts

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Get to Know Your Readers: An Example of When It Counts

Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:37 AM PST

Over on dPS today we launched a brand new photography eBook about buying the right camera gear. As I was writing a blog post to announce the new eBook I was looking for an opening to the blog post that might capture our readers attention.

Then it struck me – we had recently done a survey of our readers that contained the golden information.

A couple of months ago we ran a survey with a segment of our readership to gather some information to help us put together a media kit to approach advertisers.

One of the questions in the survey asked our readers about what photography gear they were planning to purchase in the coming 12 months.

The results of that question were fascinating both for us to give advertisers but also as we thought about what content we could publish on the site.

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Today I also realised that the stats gave me the perfect lead in for a blog post about the eBook.

Over 85% of our readers indicated that they were looking to purchase a camera or significant camera gear (a lens, bag, flash etc).

While we hadn’t decided to write the eBook on purchasing gear based upon these stats – we realised we were onto something!

The opening to the blog post became quite clear:

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Understanding Your Readership is So Important

The more you know about your readers the better position you’ll be in to serve them with great content, to find new readers, to build community with them and to monetise your blog.

Further reading on getting to know your readers:

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
Build a Better Blog in 31 Days

Get to Know Your Readers: An Example of When It Counts