Facebook Vanity URLs Present a Duplicate Content Issue?

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Facebook Vanity URLs Present a Duplicate Content Issue?

Jun 13, 2009 |

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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?

6 Comments

Jun 13, 2009

Mig Pascual said...

Nice find Brian! How did you get two Facebook vanity URLs?

Jun 13, 2009

brian-hancock said...

Hi Mig! It's not that I selected two, when I did the registration I chose brian.hancock1 but brian.hancock works as well. I confirmed the same phenomenon with someone else's profile so it's not specific to mine.

Aug 24, 2009

Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, Tauranga) said...

Why do you care about duplicate content on Facebook? Is it just something you noticed, or are you worried about watering down your link juice somehow?

Feb 06, 2010

Toby Benjamin said...

I've discovered a solution!
Have you tried slapping a big SEO friendly footer into your facebook profile?

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Facebook Vanity URLs Present a Duplicate Content Issue?

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