Comments on: Facebook Fan Page & Vanity URL For Your Interior Design Business

By: mortage

mortage — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:47:39 +0000

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By: NEX-5

NEX-5 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:03:42 +0000

Ez a cikk a fény, ahol megfigyelhetjük a valóság.

By: Luxury Fabric, Inspired Design

Luxury Fabric, Inspired Design — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:58:21 +0000

It is either a ‘feature’ of FB or your security settings need to be made more general.

By: Vaishakhi

Vaishakhi — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:50:00 +0000

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if you could help me.

I have a business page with about 31 fans on it and I have manage to create the username as instructed above. However, when I type the URL with username is does work but only works if you are logged into FB. Can you please guide me to resolve this problem.

Thanks

Vaishakhi

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:52:11 +0000

Thank you SO much for blogging these instructions. I needed to make that change and fast, and was near pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. Your help got it sorted within minutes and now I’m ready to go. No if I could only figure out how to delete the other page I accidentally created before seeing this post… Here we go. Round two!

Thanks again!

By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:06:11 +0000

Yep FB is rubbish at admin.

The original article covers the exact scenario you describe and the change did work. HOWEVER I think FB has changed itself since then. Good luck.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:42:23 +0000

This is not working for me. When I go to my business “page” then type in facebook.com/username it states “You are using Facebook as, “My business name”. To access this page, you’ll need to switch from using Facebook as your page to using Facebook as yourself.” Then I go to the next page, I try to change the username to my business name which also shows up in the drop down menu box. But, then it says this name is not available. I know it is avaible, because it is the former name of my personal page which I just replaced with a different name. It’s too bad the twin brothers didn’t keep facebook, has Zuckerberg ever tried creating and editing the url on a business page? Doubt it.

By: KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers

KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:13:04 +0000

if it’s the fan page you want to change then do it via your personal account which is also an admin of the fan page.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:58:10 +0000

Before I start this process I need to understand the procedure a bit more. Here’s my situation:

Not knowing much about the difference between an Account page and a Fan page — I created a separate Account page for my business. Then created a Fan page for that Account. I accidentally set the Username (www.facebook.com/greenslopebuilding) to the Account page when it should have gone to the Fan page.

So to be clear I have a Personal Account page, a Business Account page, and a Business Fan page.

I am an admin of the Business Fan page because I created it using the Business Account page, but I am also an admin of the Business Fan page via my Personal Account page.

What I don’t understand from you instructions is should I try your procedure logged into my Business Account page or my Personal Account page?

And I’ve read on other blogs that this procedure may or may not work. The common thread seems to be an internal change Facebook made in the beginning of November 2010.

Thanks for you help,

Mark

By: KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers

KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:55:55 +0000

you are very welcome

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:38:30 +0000

Thank you so much I have been fiddling around with this for days, and your instructions have been the clearest. Thanks again.

By: KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers

KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:14:44 +0000

yes it will release the url. I have done that myself.
you just have to rename the page, you don’t have to delete it.
the article covers your question.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:34:37 +0000

HELP!

i created a facebook business page for my business under the name
“Bugggy.com” i then picked a vanity url so its facebook.com/Bugggy

Then, I realized I screwed up. I want my business page name to be “Bugggy” (no .com)

My question is: if i create a new business page under the correct name and delete the old one (with the .com) which has my vanity url linked it to, will it release that vanity url and I’ll be able to use it for the new page?

(in case anyone wants to know: i am the admin for the original business page and would be creating a new page under the same facebook account)

anyone tried this?? any help??

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By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:16:02 +0000

SORTED excellent!

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:06:20 +0000

Yes Verity, it worked finally I had to open a personal account (which I didn’t want to at the begining) and then followed all your steps above.
Thank you again for your help, and I wish fd could offer one day this tecnical assistance like you.
All the best

By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:51:40 +0000

Let me know if it works please.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:34:33 +0000

No, I don’t have an personal account because I thought you do not need a personal account in order to open a business one (and that’s why I thought this can be done by making another person as an Administrator of your page), but if you think this is the only solution, I have to open it for myself as well.

Thank you

By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:18:33 +0000

OK, have you done what it tells you to do? IE create a personal account? You must have one of those linked to the page as admin…you might have to verify your account by mobile phone etc etc but just do what it tells you to do.

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:55:34 +0000

When I do both as admin, so clik on http://www.facebook.com/username and/or clik on “Manage” at “Privacy” setting, they both send me to this link http://www.facebook.com/upgradeaccount.php which says “To use this feature, you will need to sign up for a personal Facebook Profile.” While when my friend tries to log in from her personal account, we can go from her page to our Albania Holidays fb page but there are less functions/buttons available and we cannot find “our Settings” there where to change the username.

By: KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers

KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:11:54 +0000

1. so type in exactly this: http://www.facebook.com/username or click it as a URL. Do you get the drop down list of pages when logged in as both administrators?
2. check your privacy settings are for all age groups.

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:03:33 +0000

Hi Verity,

my full URL is http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Tirana-Albania/Albania-Holidays/131569440207349 while the short URL I want it to be is: http://www.facebook.com/AlbaniaHolidays . As I said I have the same situation like JD above and now we cannot find the Setting page when my friend loged in as Admin.

Thank you

By: KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers

KOTHEA - Passionate About Fabrics For Top Designers — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:42:55 +0000

Hi Toni
Please provide more info on your page URL(s) – full and short.
Are you saying that http://www.facebook.com/username does not show the page? or something else?
Please read the article in detail.

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:36:08 +0000

Dear Verity,
I have exactly the same problem like above. I made admin a friend of mine who liked our page but but we cannot find the Settings page for the business page when she logged in as administrator. We have seen the bottom of your article but we don’t see that. I am sorry to bother you but this thing is taking us so much time so please help.

By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:19:15 +0000

I am not logged into facebook. Your/SeekTeachers page works for me. I get sent to the WELCOME page straight away. I can’t click ‘like’ and things like that … but that is because you have to be logged in for that functionality to work i would imagine.
check any age restrictions as well.

seems to work for me tho…

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:18:58 +0000

I have published my vanity url, no countries are blocked, in addition it works when a user is logged into facebook but not when the user is not

my vanity url is http://www.facebook.com/SeekTeachers

it does not work and I have followed all steps. I also have a profile but still no joy

any further suggestions

regards

Ash

By: Verity du Sautoy

Verity du Sautoy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:14:44 +0000

The instructions, so detailed they are.
Be sure you have followed and checked every point then pls say exactly what is not working and I will try to help, thanks

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:09:23 +0000

Hi Verity
I have just recentgly started my fan page and have 34 members already and have checked the publication setting as well. All is set but I have the exact same problem. post loging its fine and shows but pre-login http://www.facebook.com/seeteachers does not work. so annoying it is.

any suggestions

thanks in advances
Ash

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:37:47 +0000

Thank you for this post, it fixed a mess up I had with my facebook! You rock!

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