Hi, Once you create a facebook page you can give it a unique url name eg. http://www.facebook.com/username I suspect this is good for SEO wrt the search engines. Q1: Pls confirm from your experience Q2: If I want to use several keywords as part of the username. Eg. Rain In Spain Whats better with dashes, underscores or nothing for SEO eg. http://www.facebook.com/rain-in-spain or http://www.facebook.com/raininspain http://www.facebook.com/rain_in_spain thanks david j.
Never tried. So can't answer Q1 For SEO I believe that dashes work best as it helps crawlers and other SEO tools distinguish between each keyword. Tho if you do that, you'll be using the keywords "rain", "in", "Spain"
It wont help much in facebook ...if anybody searches with keyword then your FB profile comes first ....that's all
Hi Thanks for answering Q2 I created this facebook page without a profile since its a business. Its just a fan page. To answer Q1; maybe facebook is submitting all its urls to the search engines for us. Wouldn't that be nice ie in xml site maps. Interested in peoples feedback Thanks David j.
It won't help too much - don't break your head about avoiding hyphens in URL, and secondly you don't need to submit them to search engines! But, you should be more concerned about building links through blog comments, and forum posts
Basically all the profile urls and fan page urls are do-follow and do not have any value in regards of SEO or SERPS to your site. So it is of not any use, however if you can send your fan page url to someone or put it in your business cards or for promoting online, then I would recommend you to go with the option : facebook.com/raininspain. That is because it is easier and quicker to memorise or convey to someone
As such i do not prefer to use dash or underscore for user name but i have observed that in Facebook , when you search it shows underscore and dash results prior to continuous name. But for SEO point of view this does not make any difference. so choice is yours.