Hi Guys

I’m a fan of the social media page on FB and have been finding it so helpful.
I just have a tiny little question though about FB urls and I’m scared I’m going to get it wrong and not be able to reverse it!

my problem is I have a profile page and a business page.

my profile page is: http://www.facebook.com/webdesignme

but I really want that url for my business page which is currently – http://www.facebook.com/pages/webdesignme/113077452054930

how do I make this happen?
I know you go to basic information / Username.
If I click on the link beside it it says – ‘
You are using Facebook as webdesignme

To access this page, you’ll need to switch from using Facebook as your page to using Facebook as yourself.’

then in the drop down it has my profile page and business page and one area where I can change the username so I’m not sure if it’s going to let me change my profile username to something else and make my business username ‘webdesignme’ or if I will lose ‘webdesignme’ all together if I change my profile one to something else.

If I change the username on my profile page will I be able to use ‘webdesignme’ on my business page?

I would be so grateful for your help anyone and would be happy to ‘like’ you and comment on your page!

thank you!

Michelle Bate

@webdesignme  hi michelle, as  @localbusinessco said, you can’t get that name for page since you’ve gotta that name for your profile. To get username for your page, go to facebook.com/username select your page from dropdown menu and enter the desired username. 

“You are using Facebook as webdesignme”   That’s just the identity you are wearing at that time to post to Pages and Timelines/walls. You have your personal identity (Michelle Bate) and your professional Page identity (webdesignme).  To post to other Pages, you can use either one of these identities, or the identity associated with any other page you admin (I have several).  However, identities associated with Pages cannot post to Timelines/walls.  You have to be using Facebook as your personal identity to do that.

That doesn’t help you a bit with the vanity URL, but that’s because they’re not related.

thanks for your help Kim

so I went into my profile account settings and changed my user name to michelle.webdesignme

then I tried changing my user name for my business page to webdesignme but it says it’s not available. but I’ll do what u suggest and give it a day or 2 – fingers crossed!

If nothing happens I might try and think of another username.
any suggestions?

ie.  webdesignme.newzealand  ?

really appreciate all your advice guys

I’d give it time to go through the system.  I’m betting that if you can’t snag it in a day or two, someone in tech support or marketing can probably give you a hand if you explain the situation.

@webdesignme @kimberleyaroper  

I think you’re missing a vital part here. It all depends on how many friends and likes Michelle has on her two pages. Michelle please let me have the url of your personal profile and your page so that I can have a quick look.

If you’re lucky there’s an easy solution.

Jorgen

@jorgenpoulsen:  No, I haven’t missed that at all.  Marketing is prohibited on Timelines.  It’s not a matter of picking one or the other; it’s a matter of moving the brand to the page you CAN brand.

@kimberleyaroper yes, you have missed it. I’m well aware of what Michelle is trying to do.

I’m am very well aware that marketing is prohibited on personal profiles (timelines) according to paragraph 4 section 4 of Facebook’s T&Cs. I deal with this issue and the issue that @webdesignme is facing every single day.

In any event Andrea Vahl and Amy Porterfield will disagree with you and I have already had exchanges with Andrea about this as I feel that Amy has gone too far but Facebook has done nothing so perhaps it’s not as black and white as you think it is.

Anyway, what is important for me is to help Michelle solve her problem.

What she needs to do is 

1) change the name back to webdesignme2) convert her personal profile to a page. 3) merge the two pages

Since she has 217 friends they will be converted to fans. Her existing page has 78 fans. When she merge the two pages the page with the most likes will be the continuing page. So if she can change the name back to webdesigme then her new merged page will be http://www.facebook.com/webdesignme and she will have295 fans.

There you go Kim.

Michelle, step 1 – 3 is not for the faint of heart. Happy to help you. If you want me help then link up with me on skype. Id jorgen-poulsen.

Hi Jogen

Thanks again for your help. I think I understand what you’re suggesting I do but you’re right – it is not for the faint hearted And I don’t think that I’m faint hearted but I’m just not sure merging my business page and profile together would be such a good idea – I use them both too much for very different reasons. I’d probably rather put up with annoying long link if I have to. Such a shame that facebook can’t be a tiny bit more flexible.

Kim – thank you for those links. I did send a message to facebook very nicely asking if anything can be done about my situation. I’m not holding my breath but you never know

thanks again everyone and I’ll let you know how I get on.

Hi Jorgen – I don’t want to have 2 different pages for the same brand.
I just want to keep my personal profile separate from my business page.
I just didn’t think merging those 2 together would be a good idea for me which is what I thought you were suggesting.