How To Set A Facebook Business Page To Custom Web Address

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How To Set A Facebook Business Page To Custom Web Address

by Drew Hannush

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Jul

Have you set up a business page for Facebook and you’ve grown tired of giving out the long URL they provide to you…or sending people through Facebook search or your personal profile to find your business page?

I have just the trick…and it wasn’t easy to discover. I went through about 20 Google links before I finally found accurate information on how to pull this off. Apparently, over the last year the requirements for a custom business URL (web address) for Facebook has dropped from 1000 fans to 100 fans to now 25 fans (as of April).

In a nutshell, here is what you need to do to claim your URL (facebook.com/yourcompanyname):

Make sure you are logged into your Facebook account. Then go to http://www.facebook.com/username (yes, this exact address…not one related to your Facebook account…this is a general Facebook page for updating custom URL’s).

Don’t use the top box in yellow (see below)…this is where you set your personal profile URL. Right below that it says “Set a Username for your Pages”…if you have multiple popular pages, you can set multiple URL’s.