How To Create Your Facebook Custom url

Written by Mehak Naheem on Aug 21, 2011 8:18 pm

Firstly visit http://www.Facebook.com/username this is the page where you want to select the profile, fan page, or group that you’re trying to change and get a custom URL to. use the drop-down menu to select your profile, fan page, or Facebook group. once you select the page a new text box will appear asking you to enter your desired username.

note: if you do not have 25 fans yet on a page, then this cannot change. (If this is the case see bottom of this page)

Fan Page Custom URL Link

Give it some thought and choose something short and relevant to your page. Once this is determined it cannot be changed!!!

We need to realize is your Facebook username is one of the most important factors to getting your page, profile, or Facebook group ranked in both Google and Facebook search. you want to make sure that your username is both short and descriptive and includes keywords that users might be using to find pages like yours.

You can choose either to eliminate spaces between words or use dashes in between each word separate them. While it may be easier for search engine’s to pickup each individual word if you’re using a – between words, eliminating the dash can give you an easier Facebook URL to distribute to your customers.

Fan Page Custom URL Link -If you do not have 25 friends or more....

If you come to the Facebook username webpage and select your profile, Facebook fan page, or Facebook group and you don’t see the option to enter in a custom username is most likely because you do not have the minimum number of fans to create a custom username. You need at least 25 fans to create a custom user name or URL. There are some pretty easy ways to get 25 fans including inviting your current friends to come support your page.

How to Get 25 Fan to your Facebook Fan Page Instantly

Underneath your Facebook fan page profile picture there is a button labeled “suggest to friends.” you can use this button to invite your friends to come support and like your fan page. This is the easiest way to get the minimum number of fans, 25, two like your fan page enabling you to create a custom Facebook URL.

Now that you have the 25 fans that you need head back to Facebook and create your custom URL. After creating your custom URL you can now use this web address to hand out to your customers, prospects, e-mail list, and website visitors so that they can easily find your Facebook page and spread the word.