How to get your personalized Facebook url for your fan-page

By now, you probably know just how complicated Facebook can make it for people to find and use all the features it has to offer, and if you have a fan page with at least 25 people on it, you might be interested in knowing how to create a personalized url for your fan-page.

First go to http://www.facebook.com/username/

If you’re already set the personalized url for your personal account, you’ll be able to see that. at the center of the page. For example, my personal url is facbook.com/taylor.ellwood Underneath that you can also set the url for your pages, by clicking Set a Username for your fan pages (See screenshot below).

Once you click that link, a new box will appear, which will allow you to check the pages you’ve created to determine if they can have a personalized url. You’ll need to choose a page from the pages dropdown box.

If your fan page doesn’t have enough fans, Facebook won’t let you choose a personal url for the fan page, but if you o have enough fans, you’ll be able to enter a name for the url and then select check availability to determine if that url is available.

The url may not always be available. For example, when checking the availability for The Green Wolf, it turned out that someone had already picked that url up, as well as a variant of it. In the end I ended up choosing to use the name of the store and name of the owner, which worked.

Before hitting confirm, make sure you read over the information and then select confirm. You now have a personalized url for your fan page.

The benefits of having a personalized url are several. Your fan-page will look more professional and when people search, whether on Facebook or on a search engine such as Google, it will be easier to find. It also improves the SEO for your website, because it shows up as a related backlink.