How To Set Up The Vanity Url For Your Facebook Fan Page
In addition to my "Friends help Friends: Get more than 100 fans for your Facebook Fan page" I got some questions about how to get the special url up and running. Thus, a quick how-to.
Step 1: Plan your page
Since today Facebook Fan pages can have vanity urls too. Meaning instead of the ugly
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-long-name-you-chose/the-id-facebook-gave-you
you could have:
http://www.facebook.com/yourchoiceofname
In order to set the Facebook vanity url for your fan page, there are several things which need to be in place first.
- You need to be admin of the page in question
- It seems you also may need a verified account
- You need to know which name you want for that page. Because once you have set it, you can never change it.
Facebook lists the following restrictions:
- Create a username that is as close as possible to your public figure or business name (e.g. AshtonKutcher, PizzaHut).
- If you own the rights to a given name, make it your username so that others cannot obtain it.
- Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").
- Choose a username you will be happy with for the long term. Usernames are not transferable.
- Your username must adhere to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
Step 2: Choose your vanity url
For choosing your pages url, visit http://www.facebook.com/username/. You will see something similar to this:
This means, that I have set my personal username and in the bottom you do find the "Set username for your pages". Click on this and you will see a new selection: 
Now, if my page for the Global Business Women had enough fans, I could now choose to enter a name for them and show you the rest. ;)
Step 3: Setting the URL
I will follow with more information once I have a page over 100 fans to check how this goes ;)
Further information from the help entry from Facebook:
- Infringement:
If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, please fill out our username infringement form. The form is located here.- I am an authorized representative for a public figure, brand or business and/or hold the rights to a trademark name. My username was claimed by another user. What can I do?
If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, please fill out our username IP infringement form.- What is the process to request removal of an unauthorized Page of a public figure, brand or business?
If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, all you need to do is fill out our username IP infringement form here.- Will usernames such as "flowers" or "pizza" ever be available for Facebook Pages? Can I sign up on a waiting list?
At this time, generic words are not available as usernames. Facebook encourages all users and Page administrators to create a username that closely matches the true identity of their name or business.
Tags: facebook, facebook fan pages
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Thanks for the information! I was really wondering that how they people are getting such url and i am very confused, Finally got time to do research on that and your article is really useful for me
Cheers man Keep it up
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.
how come it says “Aziphone is not eligible for a username at this time. In the future, Aziphone will be able to set a username.”
thanks so so much!!! you’ve just got another internet stalker!! LOL.
Thanks for the article, i was able to setup a vanity username for my fanpage within seconds.
This totally saved me! It would have taken me quite a bit of wasted time to find where this was!
Thanks so much!!!
I found the same problem. why cant i set a username for my fanpage yet? why do i have to wait for the future?
Hi Nicole, I followed your steps to get our vanity name, but it gave the name to our personal (administrator’s) page, not to our fan page. I know there is no fix for this, but for others, do you know how you can avoid this?
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was so helpful in creating a username for my fan page on facebook!
SWEEEEEEEEET! FASTEST AND BEST INFO I CAN GET ONLINE! Followed your instructions in 5 seconds flat!
Great post,
I was trying to figure out how to set up vanity urls for a facebook page i made but couldn’t figure it out, this guide helped a ton
I read somewhere that your page needs to have at least 25 fans to be eligible for a custom username.
this seems to work for my personal page…how do I set this up for my business fan page?
THANK YOU! I emailed facebook and they said this doesn’t exist… uh, how come everyone has one? So, I Googled it and your blog came right up. Thanks so much!!
Agree, too bad Facebook couldn’t make this easier to understand. (or at least train their own people!)
I enjoyed your explanation of how to get a vanity name.I had wondered how to do this. I also signed up to help others get to 100 and me too. thanks a bunch.
This is awesome! Thank you so much.
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thank you!! so helpful!
Thank you for the very clear directions you provided in this article. I set my Vanity URL in 2 minutes after reading! Really!
I have a Facebook fan page and tried to create a vanity url for it following the url in this post. it came back saying I need a profile before using this feature. Why do I need a profile page to set up the vanity url for my fan page and how do I go about setting up a profile for the business?
Thanks! (ps. have to have at least 25 fans on a Fan page to be able to set a vanity URL).
Thanks… worked like a charm!
Good article man Thanks