{"id":727,"date":"2007-12-03T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/facebook-prettier-profile-url\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T19:44:11","slug":"facebook-prettier-profile-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/facebook-prettier-profile-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Prettier Profile URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the lesser advertised and known feature of Facebook is that you can link to a prettier profile URL than the default and rather lame <em>profile.php?id=123456789<\/em>. For instance, my profile URL is either: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=575310952\">Ozh<\/a> (full profile, sucky URL) or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Ozh_Richard\/575310952\">Ozh<\/a> (short profile public page, slightly less sucky URL).<\/p>\n<p>From an SEO perspective it does not change a lot since complete profile pages on Facebook are unspiderable by search engines because they are behind a login, but from a usability and readability point of view, I think it&#39;s better, since you get a hint of the actual destination of the link when hovering it.<\/p>\n<p>To craft your own &quot;prettier profile URL&quot;, go to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php\">profile<\/a>, and scroll all the way down to the very bottom. Click on &quot;Create a Profile Badge&quot; and here it is. Not as cool as Last.FM&#39;s plain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/-ozh-\/\">\/user\/<em>username<\/em>\/<\/a>, but better anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Although not explicitly mentioned, it works the same for pages that you can create for a site, product or anything (example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/planetOzh\/21200206216\">my blog&#39;s page<\/a>), and you can even make it shorter replacing &quot;people&quot; with just &quot;p&quot; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Ozh_Richard\/575310952\">example<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit<\/b>: <del datetime=\"2007-12-04T19:45:30+00:00\">AH. Those retarded dumbasses replied to my feature suggestion with an account disabling, because it seems that using &quot;Ozh Ozh&quot; as a name is a violation of their TOS. Very great support there :)<\/del> It&#39;s back. What a bunch of donkeys. Who cares if you&#39;re using your name, a nickname or your dog&#39;s name, really :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the lesser advertised and known feature of Facebook is that you can link to a prettier profile URL than the default and rather lame profile.php?id=123456789. For instance, my profile URL is either: Ozh (full profile, sucky URL) or Ozh (short profile public page, slightly less sucky URL). From an SEO perspective it does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[249,119,11],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-facebook","tag-seo","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}