by brian-hancock on June 13, 2009
As I’m sure you are aware by now, Facebook users frantically logged on at 12:01am ET this morning to snatch up a vanity URL for their name, brand, or a desirable keyword they wanted to target. The old URLs still had the profile name present, i.e. www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Hancock/743482939 but the new vanity URLs leave out all of the extraneous information.
Anyway, I stumbled upon a possible issue today. Click the following links:
See how they both resolve and neither redirects to the other. Am I the only one sensing a duplicate content issue on the horizon?
by brian-hancock on June 11, 2009
Got the idea to give this a little test today. I setup a fan page on Facebook to promote myself and see if I can get it to show up for a general search. Like anything else on the Internet, it’s going to need some inbound links pointing to it, but it’s got some great attributes from day 1:
- URL with keyword phrase in it: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Marketing-Expert/83917058869 (even has dashes in it which google sees as spaces)
- Authoritative domain: it’s Facebook after all, the site has over 189,000,000 pages indexed and 657,000,000 links pointing to it.
- Nice title tag: Facebook | Internet Marketing Expert
- Nice H1 tag: Internet Marketing Expert
- Keyword-rich content: I added my blog feed so above every post it inserts your name, mine being the keyword Internet Marketing Expert…
Time will tell if one can get a Facebook fan page to rank high for a competitive search, but it’s certainly worth the test! Help me out and become a fan of my Internet Marketing Expert Facebook page.
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