Hannush Web Blog

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.

Its that easy…at least when you know where to look.  Thanks to Facebook for making this so cryptic as usual!

Visit our Facebook business profile at http://www.facebook.com/hannushweb

As always, there is controversy in the redesign of any website…and none meets with more public scrutiny than Facebook’s.  Here you get a behind the scenes talk on what Facebook was thinking in terms of redesigning the site.

For my own part, I wish Chat was a little less glitchy. And I haven’t figured out how to hide myself yet (maybe someone can pass me the deets in comments). Also, notifications are still in my Facebook, they are just at the top…which is fine.  I actually rely on this and like it in the higher exposure area.

Thanks to Ben Parr at Mashable.com for the video.