Facebook Vanity URL’s Hysteria

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Much has been said since Facebook allowed the new “vanity URL’s” (or user url’s like I rather call it, since vanity urls is purely an american expression adopted from the vanity plates they have in their cars).

Most of the posts about this are from users bitching about the way Facebook roll out this feature, allowing the users to choose any alias to be used in http://www.facebook.com/whateveryouchoose regardless of their username, unlike Twitter that has http://www.twitter.com/username. Others rant about the fact that Facebook should have provided something like http://user.facebook.com, forgeting that Facebook has milions of users and something like that would have a termendous weight in their DNSs…

But, as always, there’s something good to learn. One of the posts I read about this subject (no link, sorry, can’t find it) mentioned a cool way to give your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, [insert your favorite social network here] URL’s to other people, that is, if you have your own domain.

In my case, my domain is odrakir.com, so I created some subdomains redirecting to the social networks I use the most:

This way, I can give an url that’s easy to memorize and always mentions my “brand name”, cool enough to use on a visit card 🙂

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Posted 14 Jun 2009 14:10 by | Web 2.0 | 4 comments

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  • WhoSayIn says:
    June 18, 2009 at 13:12

    so can you tell me how can i create that subdomains on my cPanel?

    thanx

  • Odrakir says:
    June 18, 2009 at 13:26

    I don’t know which CPanel version your hosting company provides you with, but in my version there’s a whole set of options just for configuring domains. In the subdomains options you can configure create the subdomains and the redirects.

    The number of subdomains you can configure also depends on your hosting plan, so check your plan first and find out if how many subdomains you’re allowed to have.

  • johnchen says:
    June 18, 2009 at 13:50

    Nice idea, this way you can also keep some of the link juice if you do a 301.

    thanks

  • WhoSayIn says:
    June 18, 2009 at 13:51

    thank you for your reply, i’ve done 😉

    http://facebook.whosayin.com

    thank you again for your great idea