For most of my companies that I work with I've created quick links to our Facebook page as well as a Twitter search for our company. This makes it really easy to promote the pages by word of mouth (literally) or on Twitter where every character counts.
For example, if you want to go to OtherInbox's Facebook page, you can just type in facebook.otherinbox.com (or even shorter, facebook.oib.com). That link is a redirect that sends you to our Facebook fan page for OtherInbox.
To see what people are saying about OtherInbox right now, go to twitter.otherinbox.com. That link is a redirect that sends you to a pre-defined search on search.twitter.com.
Here's how to set it up for yourself.
Next, I do the same thing for Twitter search and twitter.otherinbox.com. First I go to search.twitter.com and manually type in the search that finds the content that I want to show.
When I tried to put that URL into Register.com's redirect it didn't like some of the characters, so I put it into TinyURL first and put the resulting TinyURL into Register.com's redirect. But that worked fine.
It doesn't take long to set up, and I find it quite handy. I hope you do too!
Here's how to set it up for yourself.
Go to your Facebook fan page. The URL will probably look something like this:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=69949101476#/pages/Capital-Factory/62503086648
I don't know why Facebook does this because its unnecessary and really ugly, but you probably want to clean it up first. Look for the "/pages/" that appears the farthest to the right (it could be in there twice). Delete everything to the left of it other than "www.facebook.com".
I don't know why Facebook does this because its unnecessary and really ugly, but you probably want to clean it up first. Look for the "/pages/" that appears the farthest to the right (it could be in there twice). Delete everything to the left of it other than "www.facebook.com".
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=69949101476#/pages/Capital-Factory/62503086648
Now this is the nice URL to your Facebook fan page:
Now this is the nice URL to your Facebook fan page:
Now all you do is set up a web redirect for a certain web page or domain name to go that URL. I like to use custom domain names because I think they are easy to remember: facebook.oib.com. However, you could also do oib.com/facebook just as easily. I use Register.com's RComExpress service to host my domains and they have a great feature where you can set up a subdomain and enter a page for it to redirect to and they take care of the rest.
Next, I do the same thing for Twitter search and twitter.otherinbox.com. First I go to search.twitter.com and manually type in the search that finds the content that I want to show.
For OtherInbox that is:
otherinbox OR "other inbox" OR #OIB OR oib.com OR "mr. spam" OR mrspam OR "mr spam"
When I tried to put that URL into Register.com's redirect it didn't like some of the characters, so I put it into TinyURL first and put the resulting TinyURL into Register.com's redirect. But that worked fine.
It doesn't take long to set up, and I find it quite handy. I hope you do too!
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Posted by: Uggs Clearance | July 20, 2011 at 08:16 PM
BY getting 25 fans for your page you can create username for the page.
Goto www.facebook.com/username
Select Create a username for your pages, select the page with 25 fans and create your username.
Be very carefull you can't redo this with deleting the page first.
Your fan page url then becomes www.facebook.com/username
Posted by: Gary | January 05, 2010 at 08:29 AM
I found this exceptionally helpful.Also, signed up as a FAN
Thanks for taking time to share your expertise
Posted by: rosie | May 28, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Great idea, I'll be doing this with our websites today. Thanks for the tip!
Posted by: Matthew Forr | May 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Awesome idea. Will definitely use this for our companies website once we go public, but for the time being I have adapted the concept to my personal use with /twitter /facebook /blog, should make things a bit more cleaner now.
Posted by: Janitha Karunaratne | April 04, 2009 at 01:12 AM