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How to Claim your Facebook Fan Page User Name
August 4th, 2011 | 
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I originally wrote this for the Facebook Fans Exchange Forum on Mom Bloggers Club. I’ve been visiting/liking a lot of fan pages lately that are fairly new, so I thought I would add this post to my blog. I hope it is helpful to all those new fan pages out there.
Facebook states that “All Pages are eligible to claim usernames if they have more than 25 fans.” Claiming your username for your fan page allows you to promote your page with a shorter URL.
For Example:
This will change your fan page link from looking like this…
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonaire-GA/Georgia-Angel-A-Southern-A…
To this…
http://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaAngel
1. Go to: http://www.facebook.com/username/
{DO NOT change “username” to your user name, copy and paste the link just as it is}
You should see a link that says something like
“Set a username for your Pages”
I have 13 fan pages, so I had to select the page, then type in the user name I wanted.
2. Then click “Check Availability”.
A message will display if the name is available or not. Then just follow the instructions from there.
For more information, here is the Facebook Help Center page on “Usernames: Facebook Pages”
http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=896#!/help.php?page=900
and on “Usernames: Usernames” http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=896.
I have a few fan pages in need of “likers” so that I can claim my username. If you have a moment, and you are interested in the content, please stop by and like my page.
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I did this about a month ago. I actually had no idea I even could do it. A fantastic kind blogger let me know out of the kindness of her heart. One more thing we can do to help monetize our blogs!
I was so happy to get rid of all those numbers on my username. I learned how to do it from a blog post too. I love it when people write posts to help other bloggers. They are so informative. I found your by vB members to remember. I am now following via GFC, FB and Twitter.
Kristen from http://www.babygiveawaysgalore.com/
Great post! Thank you, I've just claimed my pages YAY! I'm also now following you on GFC from VB. Would love for eyou to follow me at www.mommydigger.com :)
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It took me over three hours to do this the first time!! I am so glad someone actually posted this so others having BLONDE moments can actually get it done.
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