How to Customize Your Facebook Profile URL

by: Joanna - February 24, 2009 04:33pm

At least a few times a week I see a tweet roll by asking the Twitterverse “Where someone can find their personalized Facebook profile URL?” I also get emailed quite a bit by jobseekers, inquiring as to if this exists, and if they can just create one that will go there, like: “http://www.facebook.com/_____ (enter name here).  I have even seen some people give up trying to locate the illusive URL altogether by posting a link to the Facebook homepage as their own and bylining it with “Search:____ (Enter name here).  (I am going to give bonus points to those people for being creative, but I sure hope they read this post.)

arrow facebook app how to customize your facebook profile url The truth is –none of us HAVE personalized Facebook profile URLs. Unlike Myspace, Twitter, linkedin, flickr, and so on, Facebook didn’t quite lace this one in there when they launched. Instead an application surfaced about two years ago that enables you to give yourself a customized profile URL, as well as give your groups and fan pages personalized links. Considering how important customization is in personal branding, I thought I would throw down a quick tutorial on how to add and use this application to give yourself a clean, name branded Facebook URL.

  1. First go to the Memorable Web Addresses for Profile, Page or Group Application.
  2. Then on the right click “Go to Application.”
  3. It will redirect you to a screen, where you will have to allow the application access. Click “Allow.”
  4. You will be redirect to another screen where you will have to click “Add to Info.”
  5. A layer will come up, and you will have to again agree to “Add” this application.
  6. The application is added to the bottom of your profile. You must go scroll down to it and click “Keep.”
  7. It is from here that you can customize a web address. You get three options:
    - http://profile.to/YourChoice/
    - www.profile.to/YourChoice
    - http://apps.facebook.com/profiles/YourChoice/

Like for example, mine is now http://profile.to/joannalord  Feel free to connect!

That’s all there is to it! It really only takes a few minutes, but will definitely come in handy moving forward. Having your name searchable, and clearly identified across your profiles will become more and more important as the job search continues to infiltrate the social network space.  So go do it. No really, if you haven’t already… go do it now. There you gooooooo. Here is the link again ;)

Customizable Facebook Profile Application

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Why not just do a 301 from your own URL to facebook? I have www.jackleblond.com/facebook set up to redirect to my facebook page. It's simple, it promotes my URL and not someone else's and it does not prompt visitors to install an application.

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I was not aware of this one, thanks Joanna!

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