A client asked me to tell him if he should go with a vanity URL on Facebook. He is worried it will hurt his ranking of the fan page in Google.
The thinking is that his fanpage is separated by dashes like this facebook.com/fan-page/1234.
Whereas a vanity url can only be this facebook.com/fanpage/ or facebook.com/fan.page/
I give my opinion on this video. I use my own personal profile and my Fan Pages as examples in this video.
- http://www.facebook.com/tim.okeefe
- http://www.facebook.com/spider.juice.technologies
And as of this moment it seems Google cached my new url structure on Feb. 17th.
And the ranking has actually stayed in the same position since the video. Now to be completely intellectually honest we have to realize that my clients phrase and name of his fan page has more competitors than a brand name like mine. So we have to consider that fact. However, I do believe it will stay the same if all else is equal withing Facebook. (relatively same friends counts (links) and same inbound links from outside Facebook to the Fan page)
