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Facebook Vanity URL or Link is a nice feature provided by Facebook to help shorten your Small Business Fan Page URL for creating a short version for print media, email signatures and advertisments.

Step 1: Plan your page

Facebook Fan pages can have vanity urls. Meaning instead of the ugly

http://www.facebook.com/#!/ThinkGeeks4u?ref=ts

you could have

http://www.facebook.com/ThinkGeeks4u

In order to set the Facebook vanity url for your fan page, there are several things which need to be in done first.

• You need to be admin of the page in question
• It seems you also may need a verified account
• You need to know which name you want for that page. Because once you have set it, you can never change it.

Facebook lists the following restrictions:

Create a username that is as close as possible to your public figure or business name (e.g. AshtonKutcher, PizzaHut).

If you own the rights to a given name, make it your username so that others cannot obtain it.

Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").

Choose a username you will be happy with for the long term. Usernames are not transferable.

Your username must adhere to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

Step 2: Choose your vanity URL

For choosing your pages url, visit http://www.facebook.com/username/. Once you select your vanity url you can now start marketing your newly created short URL

Note: Facebook requires 100 Fans before you can actually create your vanity url. Though there are work arounds to this rule like the blog article below. One of the fastest ways to add fans to your website is to create a personal Facebook profile and asking your friends and family to join and become a Fan of your Business Fan Page.

Friends help Friends: Get more than 100 fans for your Facebook Fan page