3 Choices for Facebook Vanity URLs

Facebook just launched vanity URLs which means you have a chance (or had a chance if taken) to get a url like this www.facebook.com/darrenmonroe

Why Does This Matter?

The big deal? Facebook being a large authority site could get your name in the higher ranking with Google/ Bing. So there is the hype, and actually that’s it nothing more. I don’t see the big deal because Facebook is actually behind as far as social sites go for this feature. Linkedin had vanity links for some time. It’s Facebook and their guarded policies that kept this from making this happen. The bigger you grow the slower you can possibly get. Ahem “MySpace” .

I really like blogger Chris Brogans spin on the whole URL Facebook thing. He changed his vanity not to www.facebook.com/chrisbrogan but www.facebook.com/dotchrisbrogan. And has been catching hell for it for days LOL!Look at his intro comment below.

“Yes, search marketers and SEO professionals everywhere just wrote me off.”

I am not advising you to follow SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or go against it. I think you should follow your thoughts. Now that you know the SEO advantages you make the call. But remember before you begin to criticize someone because they didn’t follow the high and mighty SEO rules remember something…..   Entrepreneurs follow their own set of rules. Think about it, if you were into following what other people say you sure as hell shouldn’t be reading THIS site LOL!

You have 3 options

1. Either follow the use of your name to the Facebook Vanity URL

2. Add your own creative creation

3. Tell Facebook to go to blazes and keep your URL as it is.

Its not the Link its the content and consistency inside.