Create a Facebook Fan Page URL in 2 Minutes or Less
February 15, 2010
If you’ve created a Facebook Fan Page, but cannot (or did not) figure out how to create a vanity URL to go with it, I’m happy to tell you that you can make that change really quickly.
To change your Facebook Fan Page URL, go to http://www.facebook.com/username/
Using the drop down box, select the Fan Page you’d like to (re)name. You’ll need to check the availability of the name. After you’ve checked and created your name, click the save button and voila: your new, simplified Facebook Fan Page URL.
One last thing — Don’t forget to share your new name with your fans as well as in other correspondence you send out!
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Clicking the link brings me to my profile’s page – that already has a username selected. The facebook “help” pages didn’t provide any clearer instructions as to how to set a vanity URL for a group page.
Hi–I just created a new facebook page for my non-profit organization, but I guess because I was the administrator everything gets linked to my personal page. (I just clicked your link to change the facebook username and it changed to polus center but then it brought me back to my personal page). How do I de-couple my personal account and my business account? Do you know? Thanks!
Good advice as always. Thank you.
Infiniti — As far as I know, you can’t set a vanity URL for a Group Page, just fan pages and personal pages.
Theresa — Not sure what happened. Facebook had been experiencing glitches yesterday. Perhaps try again today and see if you are able create the URL for you fan page today.
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for this. Heaven forbid I should actually find this info easily on Facebook. Thanks to you, I’ve now got EchoesFans.
This has not happened to me and I loaded it several times. I have no idea why that is happening on your end but the issue sounds more specific to a Facebook error versus a FBML coding problem which is what this article is about.
The original point of fan pages was to advertise a service or buissness. Once your traffic grows to a certain point you have to actually own a buissness and prove its yours to keep it.
site survey — where did you read that once your traffic got to a certain point you had to own a business to prove it’s yours?
I run several fan pages for businesses I don’t own and I’ve never read what you mentioned.
Hi Erin – Could you give me a little advise, the name of my facebook page is something like Karens Mountain Biking Holidays and the current URL something similar with extra stuff, if I just changed my page user name to my company name Karens would I still be found in searches in FB for mountain biking ?
Karen,
I went on to Facebook to see if I could find Karens Mountain Biking Holidays. I could not find the page which leads me to believe that by changing the page user name and leaving off the name Karens, it is no longer searchable that way. I did, however, find a page for Mountain Biking and Holidays.