Facebook are about to provide the ability to choose use your name as a username for your Facebook profile. It’s one username per person so once it’s gone, it’s gone – this is not an opportunity you want to snooze and lose on especially if your name is Jane Smith!
If you are building your credibility and brand online you will automatically want to use your own name but for anyone who logged on to Facebook and created a profile based on their business keyword it will be interesting to see how it helps them in the search engines.
The count down page is here http://www.facebook.com/username/
Blog post is here http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130
Could having a Facebook keyword rich username help you get to the top of the search engines for a major keyword?
We all know “make money online” is a huge keyword to have – what it you were using that as your Facebook keyword right now, I am sure you will be very happy! Of course people still need to be logged in to see your full profile but with the millions that are already on Facebook it certainly won’t do you any harm.
This is what your Facebook username will look like :
Opening Your Facebook Account With Your Keyword
If you are thinking about running to Facebook to open an account using your keyword you are already too late. According to the FAQ section Facebook have already said that accounts opened after the announcement of usernames (which was June 9th) won’t be eligible.
With thanks to Paul Colligan who alerted me to this piece of news and who created a video on it (and Google Profile)
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Well I managed to get start online business as my user name, so you will find me at
http://www.facebook.com/startonlinebusiness
What’s yours?