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June 15, 2011

How To Set A Username / url For Your Facebook Page

A Facebook username or url makes it easier for you to direct people to your Facebook page. Once you have 25 Likes on your page you are able to create a unique url that works like a web address. All usernames start with www.facebook.com/ you can then choose what you want to appear after this. Ours for example is www.facebook.com/spiderworking.

I’ve encountered a few people recently who have had problems setting their Facebook username. The interface is a little confusing and It’s easy to end up setting your business username for your profile page and visa versa. Follow the steps below to set your business page username and remember that once it’s set you can’t change it.

- Make sure you are logged into Facebook

- Click this link www.facebook.com/username

- The next page gives you the option to change the username for your personal profile and for your ‘Page’

- Underneath ‘Each Page can have a username’ Click on the drop down menu next to ‘Page Name’

- Choose the page that you want to set the username for (you must have 25 Likes on a page before you can set username)

- Depending on your browser a box will open up next to or underneath your page choice.

- Type in your desired username – like a web address this should contain no gaps and be easy for others to spell and remember

- Click ‘Check availability’

- If the username is available double check the spelling and click ‘Confirm’. Once you have completed this step you can’t change or edit your username, you are stuck with it so be very sure you have it right.

If you have accidentally set your username for your profile

Facebook allows you to change the username for your personal profile once, so if you have accidentally set your Facebook page url for your profile you have one chance to change it.

- From your home page click on ‘Account’ on the top right hand side.

- Click ‘Account Settings’ from the drop down menu

- On the next page click ‘change’ next to ‘Username’

- Type in your new personal username into the box underneath ‘Username’

- Click ‘Check availability’

- If it is available and you are happy with it click ‘Confirm’

This will free up the original username for you to use for your business page. It can take a while for Facebook to release the username but you will soon be able to reclaim it for your business page.

Have you had problems setting your username? What else has you stuck on Facebook? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

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October 6, 2010

2 ways to customise your Facebook link

Once you have set up your Facebook page it can be hard to direct people to it. Facebook give you a very long url for your page containing lots of numbers and text, even if you could remember it passing it on to other people could be quite a task.

Here are two ways to create an easy web address for your Facebook page.

1. If you have 25 ‘Likes’ on your page

Once you have 25 Likes on your page Facebook allows you to set a personalised username

Go to www.facebook.com/username
Choose the page you want to give a username to from the dropdown menu
Enter your desired username into the box, it doesn’t matter if you use caps or not but don’t leave any gaps. Make sure this is the url you are going to stay with as once it is set it cannot be changed.
Click ‘check avilability’

If the name is available click ‘confirm’

Your username is now set and you can direct people to www.facebook.com/yourusernamehere
For example the Spiderworking.com Facebook page is here: www.facebook.com/spiderworking

2. If you don’t yet have 25 ‘Likes’ on your page

You can set a temporary link for your Facebook page using a link shortening service such as Bit.ly. Sign up for an account so that you can use all the features.

Go to your Facebook page, refresh the page as Facebook tends to adds other information into the url, this will disappear if you refresh.
Copy the address from your address bar

Go to your bit.ly account
Paste the long link into the box ‘shorten your links and share from here’
Click ‘Customize’

Change the part of the link in red to something memorable.

The nice thing about creating a custom link through Bit.ly is that you can also measure how often it has been clicked.

Tags: Facebook — Tags: bit.ly, Facebook, Facebook link, Facebook page, Facebook url, fan page, Link shortening, tutorial, url, username —

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May 5, 2010

April 30, 2010

How to stop Farmville and other apps updating your status

I posted a few weeks ago about how Facebook users could hide updates from Farmville. It proved very popular! However if you are a user of Farmville or any of the ‘noisy’ applications it is possible to stop them updating your Facebook status and it’s very simple.

Log into your Facebook account and click the ‘Account’ tab on the top right hand side of your page.

From the drop down menu choose ‘Application Settings’.
On the next screen scroll down until you find the offending application.

Click ‘Edit settings’.
From the pop up window select ‘Additional permissions’ and uncheck the box ‘Publish recent activity (one line stories) on my wall.

Click ‘OK’ and updates from that application will no longer auto publish.

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2 easy ways to feed your blog to Facebook

If you’re a blogger did you know that you can feed your blog automatically into Facebook. In this weeks video blog we show you two ways to do this:

1. Using the existing “Notes” application
2. Using Networked Blogs:

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