Are you seeing a “Create Page @username” on your Facebook cover photo and you aren’t sure what that means? Would you like to create a custom URL for your Page so that it can be easily found?
How to Set your Facebook Page Username. To set your Facebook Page username, you can either just click the hyperlinked “Create Page @username” on your cover photo and a popup box appears, or your username settings are in your About section of your Page. When you click there, a popup box appears. If your preferred username isn’t available. Adding Impressum to your page is really a very simple process. 1) Login to your account and go to your Facebook page. 2) Click on “About” section, it’s just below your Facebook page’s cover picture. 3) In about section, you will find all the page info section and editing options for your Facebook pages.
If you have not yet set up a custom username for your Facebook Page, you may be seeing some new text under your Facebook Page name. Don’t worry, as an Admin of your Page, you are the only one who sees that cryptic message. But it’s a good idea to get your Username set up so that your Page is more “findable” (which should totally be a word).
What is a Facebook Custom Username?
First of all, what does a custom username do for you? Didn’t you already name your Facebook Page? Yes but the custom username is also the custom URL or web address for your Page. So instead of a long Page web address like https://www.facebook.com/Cakes-Cookies-and-Creampuffs-630557690356089/, you can specify a shorter name that is easier to put on business cards like: www.facebook.com/CakesCookiesCreampuffs. Ahhh much better.
Just to be clear, the Create Page @username is only visible to Admins and the category still appears to other people:
To view your Page as a Page visitor, just click on the 3 dots and select View as Page Visitor.
When you do that, you will see that your Facebook Category is still showing and you can switch back to the regular view to manage your Page.
One important thing to note is that when you do choose a Username for your Page, the category will be removed and your Page username you choose appears under your Page name. So Facebook seems to be de-emphasizing the categories of Pages.
Facebook Page Username Tips
Facebook is now asking people to set up their Page username in the Setup process (shown in step number 3 of my How to Set Up your Facebook Page blog post) so many people are setting it up earlier.
Be careful when setting up your Username because Facebook only allows you to change it one time! And after that, it can be very challenging to change it again.
A few things to consider when choosing a username:
No spaces or underscores but you can have periods separating words
You cannot have .com at the end of your username (and that would be confusing anyway)
Capitalize the words for readability (this will not affect if people type in lower case letters for the address)
Usernames can be a maximum of 50 characters (although shorter can be better to prevent mistakes)
Your preferred web address may not be available
It’s hard to transfer usernames but if you “release” a username it can be “reclaimed” by another Page or profile. This happens often when someone accidentally set their personal Facebook profile up with a name that they may have wanted to use for their business. Usually there is just a short waiting period that seems to vary.
Note that I can’t help with Facebook username issues – that has to be handled by Facebook and you can message the Facebook Help Center for that.
How to Set your Facebook Page Username
To set your Facebook Page username, you can either just click the hyperlinked “Create Page @username” on your cover photo and a popup box appears, or your username settings are in your About section of your Page.
When you click there, a popup box appears.
If your preferred username isn’t available, you will get a message that you cannot use that username.
I suggest capitalizing the first letter of each word for readability (it won’t be case sensitive when people type it in to their browsers).
Then just select Create Username and you are done!
The only thing I’m not in love with is the fact that it’s a bit redundant if you are choosing a username that is similar to your Facebook Page name. But it’s Facebook – it could all change tomorrow.
Once you set your Username, your old links to your Facebook Page (with the longer address) will still work. But now, you can use your shorter name to direct people to your Facebook Page.
Hope that is helpful and let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!
Impressum, a kind of about us, privacy policy and disclaimer, is one of the most important features in Facebook. As we all knows that Facebook gives value to their users and don’t want any type of miscommunication between Facebook page and users. Either it is small business, multinational business or the entertaining page, cricket updates page, one needs to clear the policy about their page and that’s where the Impressum comes into the role. So let’s talk about Impressum and how could you fill it according to your business area or field of your page.
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What is Impressum?
Impressum is a Latin word described as ‘Legal Statement of Ownership’ ‘Legal Notice and Disclosure’. Today, Facebook is having millions of traffic and the small miscommunication or misleading can harm the Facebook users and that’s the reason adding an Impressum is law in few countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland etc. If you are Indian, it’s up to you whether you want to add it or not.
If you build any website, app or game, it’s required to have About Us and Terms of Condition (TOS) Page, and that’s why Facebook added an ‘Impressum’ option.
How to Write an Impressum for Facebook Page?
Name and Address of your Business/Organization
Contact Information with Name of Owner/Manager of the Page
Explain about page nature in accordance with your local law
Detailed and legal information about your Facebook fan page.
Suppose you are running a page which adds funny stuff to entertain others then you should mention that “This page is not made for any type of illegal activity or it’s just made for fun.” If you are running a page through which you are getting business then you should mention your business policy so that the users can decide accordingly.
You could write Impressum as long as 2000 characters in which you could draw all the necessary details about your page either it’s a gaming page, a Hollywood page or a local business page. If you write it properly, you get more chance to grab the business so don’t take it for granted, work on it and get the job done!
If you are struggling in creating your own Impressum about your Facebook page then you could use some other’s Impressum information to get the idea. You could change your Business name, owner name, email id, official phone number. Though many Impressum is already added to Facebook Pages, many business owners still feel uncomfortable to add this portion because it’s some sort of legal bound and limitation which owners need to take care.
How to add Facebook Impressum into a Fan Page?
Firstly Login into your Facebook Account.
Go to “Your Pages”
Select the page in which you want to add Impressum.
Once you visit page, there is option on Sidebar i.e. “About Us”
About Us > Edit Impressum
Write down 2000 character about your legal terms and business.
Click on ‘Save’ button.
If you follow the steps as given above, it would be very easy for you to add Impressum. This Impressum could be shown by your Facebook fan page users in “About US” section.
Still Having Problem in Creating Impressum? – Here is Impressum Generator for your Facebook Fan Page!
While searching for Impressum Generator, I didn’t find any generator with the primary language of English. Few of the good Impressum generators are listed below which you could use to create your own imprint.
Impressum Generator Germany
In Germany, People are using this website to generate their personalized imprint for the private or commercial use of any website, blog or Facebook page. You need to follow the steps given below:
Visit: http://www.impressum-generator.de
Click on ’Create an Imprint’
If you need Imprint in the english version, just open Google Chrome and then click on ‘translation’ button for understanding the language.
Use “Sample Data or Real Data”
In Sample data, they will show you the method of generating Impressum.
In real data, you need to answer their questions and add your own information.
According to nature of the business you choose, they will give you Impressum for using anywhere on blog or website.
There are few other Impressum generators like Muster-Vorlagen.net, eRecht24, Deutsche-an Walt hotline which can help you to create your own customized and personalized imprint.
When I was creating Impressum for my page, I didn’t know about these tools and then I search for it on YouTube and there I got to know about the use of this Impressum, how could we impress our facebook fan page user by adding customized and personalized Impressum.
Adding an Impressum and adding a quality Impressum are two different things. If you are a real hard working guy, you should go with adding an impressive imprint. You must check out few Youtube videos, create the Impressum by above Impressum generator and then edit it accordingly.
I hope you like the post and will work on your Impressum. Please let me know 2-things now:
Being an Admin, Which option of Facebook page you like the most?
Will you add Impressum or not? Specify the reason
Your feedback helps us to work in a better way so I hope you will give us your precious time in writing about Impressum and other qualities of Facebook pages.
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