ShoeMoney Readers: What FaceBook Url Did you get?

by Jeremy Schoemaker on June 13, 2009 · 154 comments

So tell me! I am curious what vanity facebook url did you get during the landrush.

I love to see what people choose:

It was tough for me to decide. My first choice was “jeremy” but I was too slow. My second choice was “marketer” but again to slow…. then I went for internet marketer and got it!

In hindsight I am pretty happy with the choice.

So what did you get?

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1 Leo Fogarty June 13, 2009 at 5:51 pm

Nothing fancy, just got my personal ones. Should have went after some good generic keywords. Oh well!

2 L2 Lumpy June 13, 2009 at 9:49 pm: http://www.facebook.com/L2Lumpy

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3 Lake of the Ozarks June 13, 2009 at 5:57 pm

I got just what I needed as I own a vacation rental company here at the Lake of the Ozarks in missouri and I got lakeoftheozarks. I’m a happy guy:)

4 Ethan June 13, 2009 at 5:57 pm

turns out an FB employee snagged mine – probably a few months ago.

Just duplicated the twitter and myspace handles for uniforimity. Its all at /rethansmith

5 joe hall June 13, 2009 at 5:59 pm

http://www.facebook/joehall

6 Joe Hall June 13, 2009 at 6:01 pm: Oops that link is broken!
http://www.facebook.com/joehall

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7 Jon Kelly June 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm

http://www.facebook/jonkelly

8 Jon Kelly June 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm: ha ha I copied Joe’s broken link.

The real one:
http://www.facebook.com/jonkelly

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9 Justus Marten June 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm

http://facebook.com/affiliatemarketeer

10 Igor Varyvoda June 13, 2009 at 6:06 pm

just got my last name, er, http://facebook.com/varyvoda

11 Sukosaki June 13, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Nothing fancy here either. /sukosaki & /affiliateobsession

12 jonathan June 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm

facebook.com/digitalpoint

13 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 14, 2009 at 10:11 am

Risky take … I am afraid they can banned your account if Shawn will demand this name … lollzz

14 jonathan June 14, 2009 at 8:35 pm

its a fake account I created to test facebook apps so no worries

15 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 20, 2009 at 11:11 pm: I think you should not do such things. You are responsible person and such kind of fake accounts create burden on server only.

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16 Chaaban June 13, 2009 at 6:15 pm

it seems they blocked all countries names , famous words , big compagnies , etc … had to go with my name

17 Chaaban June 13, 2009 at 6:17 pm

companies *

18 Mike @ MyNewAffiliateLife June 13, 2009 at 6:36 pm

I rolled with firstlast http://www.facebook.com/mikechiasson . I’m so original its not even funny!

19 Danaly Design June 13, 2009 at 6:36 pm

http://www.Facebook.com/WebDesignServices

20 Nathan Driver June 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm

It was tough I kept going back and forth from my company tag name “@drivenmg” or mine. went with facebook.com/nathan.driver

21 Soggy Dave June 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm

Just my regular username which the page still needs to be worked on. http://www.facebook.com/soggydave

Also got some great names for my existing niche pages on facebook that are fairly busy.

22 La Carmina June 13, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Naturally, I got http://www.facebook.com/lacarmina

Ever since I launched my Japanese fashion blog – http://www.LaCarmina.com – I’ve nabbed my name (lacarmina) for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I think it’s really important to do so.

23 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 14, 2009 at 10:09 am: Certainly yes … that’s the magic of Web 2.0

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24 Greg Ellison June 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm

I just got http://www.facebook.com/greg.ellison. I am happy with that because it is my personal account. My mom got her first name so that was pretty cool. Greg Ellison

25 Terry Krysak June 13, 2009 at 6:48 pm

I decided to go for the same name as my blog.
http://www.facebook.com/TerryKrysakArtworks

26 Keith De La Rue June 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/kdelarue, which matches the handle I use in other places. (Including the URL http://kdelarue.com/.) The benefit of having a Scottish first name and a French surname…

27 aaron June 13, 2009 at 6:57 pm

I really wanted aaron but some facebook employee already had it…so instead:
im.awesome

28 adwords training June 13, 2009 at 7:08 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/HOWannoyingIsShoemoneysPopoverEVERYTimeISeeHisPage-IMeanGiveUsYourPaypalAndAskForDonationsIfYouCantPayYourRent

I think it’s quite classy

Seriously. Want to advertise your classes put a banner ad at the top not a pop up from the 90′s

I know the economy is bad, but did you knock up your wife again and need college money or something? Jeesh!

Love ya

29 Jeremy Schoemaker June 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm

luv u2-

the popup uses cookies to make sure people dont see it more then 1 time EVER. So make sure your cookies are working. BTW akismet flags you as spam… spammer =P

30 Chaaban June 14, 2009 at 7:47 am: yeah , I’m seeing it also more than once …

and i hate it !

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31 John Doerty June 13, 2009 at 7:09 pm

I got facebook.com/casualsex. Now if I could only monetize it .

32 Jeremy Schoemaker June 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm

now thats a way to impress the laides!

33 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 14, 2009 at 10:07 am: We expected to see something at there … but there is nothing

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34 Mat June 13, 2009 at 7:30 pm

I got /carloan

It’s memorable as it makes all the people who I have told go “wtf..?”

Hehe. I can’t see any way I can make $ out of this but I thought, just in case, might as well get a good keyword.

35 Pedro B June 13, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Got my last name! http://www.facebook.com/brannum

Yes!

36 Ultimate Toronto June 13, 2009 at 7:35 pm

We got http://www.facebook.com/ultimatetoronto, tried to get just “Toronto” but was too slow. It’s all good, as the name we chose is the name of our site.

37 Sean Eddy June 13, 2009 at 7:43 pm

I was lucky and got my name. Facebook.com/seaneddy

38 Brandon Eley June 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm

I got http://facebook.com/brandoneley . I thought about getting /beley since I use it for a lot of sites, but opted for my entire name instead.

I noticed that Darren Rowse, Wayne Sutton, Chris Brogan and several others did not get their own names. I think there were a lot of people trying to snipe names of popular Internet personalities (and maybe regular celebrities too).

39 Mickey June 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm

I use “mickmel” for everything, and was able to snag it:

http://www.facebook.com/mickmel

40 bilin June 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm

i think the shorten URL is good than longer ones. so my facebook url is http://facebook.com/bilin
it’s just five letters and it’s the smallest length.

41 ways to make money online June 13, 2009 at 8:26 pm

I got facebook.com/biggerthenshoemoney…

42 Jeremy Schoemaker June 13, 2009 at 8:50 pm

found your comment in the spam founder. Akismet is flagging your ip address as spam. Looks like you have had one to many people report you with the spam button my friend.

43 Ben Pei June 15, 2009 at 10:52 am: I believe its because of his name.

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44 T William June 13, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Too bad you scored with a grammatical spelling error: then/than

45 AJ Kumar June 13, 2009 at 10:13 pm

HAHHAHA thats too funny! Now that’s what I call a “zing!”

46 ways to make money online June 14, 2009 at 11:07 am: Geez thanks for the information, I’ve known that for a long time!! Whoaa

And I meant, Bigger size wise…Your what like 200 lbs? I got ya!

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47 Lisa Young June 13, 2009 at 8:49 pm

I grabbed http://www.facebook.com/lisa.young … my name is incredibly common so I really did treat it as a landrush

48 Marcus Neto June 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm

I got facebook.com/marcusneto which is my name. Quite pleased. I didn’t think anyone else would grab it as it is not a common name but you never know.

49 Dave Rigotti June 13, 2009 at 9:30 pm

Hi Jeremy -

I got my name, which I’m quite pleased about. Also, in the post, I think you meant to link to http://www.facebook.com/anesthesiologist for your wife’s page. – Dave

50 Clark Covington June 13, 2009 at 9:36 pm

I got Clark Covington because I figured that would be the worst thing to lose if someone else got it. Aren’t you worried about somebody else grabbing your name, or were you able to do that with another account?

51 Bradley Nordstrom June 13, 2009 at 9:37 pm

nice post.But I don’t have a facebook account.

52 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 14, 2009 at 10:06 am: And what is the reason of that ?

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53 Ben Pei June 15, 2009 at 10:51 am: Then I think you are losing quite abit of fun there Brad.

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54 Melvin June 13, 2009 at 9:38 pm

I would probably love to get facebook.com/melvin but someone already has it so i settled for my fullname…

55 Geno Prussakov June 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm

I tried getting Facebook.com/geno but learned that vanity URLs have to be 5 characters or loner. Ended up getting http://www.facebook.com/prussakov

56 Jeffrey Remick June 13, 2009 at 9:43 pm

I decided I’d keep it simple, just grabbed my last name.
http://facebook.com/remick

57 Kim Oser, Certified Professional Organizer® June 13, 2009 at 9:46 pm

http://facebook.com/KimOser

I did not go on to Facebook until after 2pm EDT today, 14 hours after they became available. Believe it or not, there are 3 unrelated Kim Osers on Facebook.

I have to wait for my page until June 28 to a vanity url for my page b/c I had less than 1K fans as of 5/31.

58 Jaky Astik June 13, 2009 at 9:51 pm

Well, I got facebook/jaky.astik
Though, I am pretty sure the (.) has no importance just like google usernames.

59 Jason Bartholme June 13, 2009 at 9:56 pm

In the interest of continuing to brand myself, I claimed http://www.facebook.com/jasonbartholme. Nothing fancy, but it serves it’s purpose.

60 Rachael June 13, 2009 at 9:57 pm

I got http://facebook.com/liposuctiondoctor
Waiting to see what love the search engines give these facebook URLs.
Congrats to your wife; great catch!

61 browie June 13, 2009 at 9:57 pm

facebook.com/browie

Got my name.

62 Phil Gerbyshak June 13, 2009 at 10:00 pm

Interesting that Facebook was meant for personal use and catching up with friends, and now is being used as a sort of landgrab to do something hip and edgy. Internet Marketer is a good one though!

I went with the basic http://www.facebook.com/philgerb because that’s who I am.

63 Jeff Lombardo June 13, 2009 at 10:05 pm

I couldn’t get my name only so i have jlombardo62

64 Joe Tech June 13, 2009 at 10:10 pm

I grabbed http://facebook.com/JoeTech

65 Roseli A. Bakar June 13, 2009 at 10:12 pm

I managed to get my “brand” – http://www.facebook.com/ezyblogger

66 Toan Nguyen Minh June 13, 2009 at 10:17 pm

http://facebook.com/clickkt

67 Pangeran June 13, 2009 at 10:34 pm

I choose to get http://www.facebook.com/pangeran

my first name, but damn, spammers have come to get it first..

Then I need to choose my fullname

http://www.facebook.com/pangeranwiguan

68 Chris Webb June 13, 2009 at 10:53 pm

http://facebook.com/thegoodnamesweregone

which goes alongside:

http://delicious.com/thegoodnamesweregone
http://twitter/tgnwg
http://www.tgnwg.com/
http://www.thegoodnamesweregone.com/

Kick ass!

69 Andy June 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm

I got one of our brands – http://www.facebook.com/seattletravel/

70 James June 13, 2009 at 11:15 pm

I got my companies name because someone got my name. I didn’t think the landrush would go that far. I was surprised.

71 Ankur Jain June 13, 2009 at 11:31 pm

First choice was ankurjain but have to settle with ankurj

It was not because I was slow but probably they have already reserved my name (journalist or probably FB employee)

72 The Bad Blogger June 13, 2009 at 11:57 pm

I was so lucky that no one uses “The Bad Blogger” Nick —> http://www.facebook.com/TheBadBlogger

73 Tran Harry June 14, 2009 at 12:34 am

I got http://www.facebook.com/tranharry pretty much my name, same as my blog.

74 Christian Jessen June 14, 2009 at 12:40 am

I really wanted just “christian”, but as I was drunk, like a lot of other people friday night, I didnt really got a chance to take part of the rush. So I went with my name, which I hope will get up in the search engines, like my blog is when you search on my name. http://facebook.com/christianjessen

I still blame Facebook developers for having no life, and the date and time they choose, just signals to me, that they wanted the spammers to get first! Who, sorry if I diss anybody, sits in their office, or in front of their computer, 12:01 FRIDAY NIGHT! I dont want to spend my friday night waiting to get a good name. But maybe thats just me, “ofcourse the majority of facebook users is online 12:01 friday night”..

Anyway, congrats with the name. I didnt want to go for anything else then Christian or Christian Jessen, since that is not my name, and thats not the reason for my personal page on Facebook.

75 kuuzak June 14, 2009 at 12:41 am

http://www.facebook.com/ticklethesquid and http://www.facebook.com/resveratrol

I’m a little worried that they’ll block the later, but so far its all good.

76 rhodzy June 14, 2009 at 1:24 am

Just got my usual nickname

http://www.facebook.com/rhodzy

77 Chris Marshall June 14, 2009 at 1:37 am

http://facebook.com/almerimarlife

Not a huge Facebiok user. Never was and then Twitter came along (MyAppleStuff) and much prefer that.

Looking at Facebook to hep the site (http://almerimarlife.com) grow so was natutral choice

78 Dino June 14, 2009 at 1:41 am

I got myself the name of my blog which is “Dinono”

so http://www.facebook.com/dinono

79 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 14, 2009 at 10:03 am: So someone took your Dino … thats very bad.

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80 Ben Pei June 14, 2009 at 2:36 am

Lol my name of coz! http://www.facebook.com/benpei

By the way, do you still accept photos with your shoemoney shirt?

81 JackK June 14, 2009 at 2:41 am

Was there money to be made on this waste of time? Explain why this really matters.

82 Jeremy Schoemaker June 14, 2009 at 2:49 am: branding

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83 Find Affiliate Offers June 17, 2009 at 7:25 am: It also makes it much easier for people to find you and something easy to print on a business card if needed.

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84 Link Building June 14, 2009 at 3:26 am

I was very pleased with the whole event and outcome.

85 Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net June 14, 2009 at 4:08 am

Mine is http://www.facebook.com/dexter.panganiban

86 Youngistaan June 14, 2009 at 4:09 am

I really like this move of facebook. And thats my new url.

http://www.facebook.com/youngistaan

87 R Kumar June 14, 2009 at 4:38 am

I was quick enough to get my name. So I got the url, http://www.facebook.com/dilip.kumar

88 free directory submission June 14, 2009 at 4:42 am

Thanks for reminding, got mine – http://www.facebook.com/customwebsite , hoping that it may add value for my new startup.

89 Justus June 14, 2009 at 5:36 am

Got myself http://www.facebook.com/pokerrooms

90 varinder parihar June 14, 2009 at 6:08 am

I got writingleaf

91 Gloson June 14, 2009 at 6:36 am

Hehe. I managed to get ‘Gloson’, my first name. Short and personal! – http://www.facebook.com/gloson

92 YingHang June 14, 2009 at 6:40 am

Hey Jeremy,
I got http://www.Facebook.com/onlinestrategist!
Yeah, like Ben Pei said, do you still accept T-Shirts. I wanna send you one!

93 Anthony June 14, 2009 at 7:03 am

i got http://www.facebook.com/OnlineMarketing
… pretty happy about it

94 Deneil Merritt June 14, 2009 at 8:10 am

I got my name.
http://www.facebook.com/deneilmerritt

95 Marko Nikolic June 14, 2009 at 10:54 am

I got: http://www.facebook.com/iam.markonikolic

96 Luke June 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

I still haven’t gotten mine. lol. I’ll probably just grab xy7luke or stickycarrots whenever I get on facebook again

97 J. Money June 14, 2009 at 11:43 am

I was lame and just went with my blog name…thought about doing my alter ego (J. Money) but figured i could then never change it if i wanted to…that, and apparently there’s a rapper named J. Money and i didn’t want him coming after me

http://www.facebook.com/budgetsaresexy

98 Ferry Prima June 14, 2009 at 11:50 am

I just happen to use my original my name. It was my first choice also.

Http://facebook.com/ferryprima

good enough LoL

99 therealjosh June 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm

I managed to pickup http://www.facebook.com/therealjosh to match with my twitter.com/therealjosh also http://www.facebook.com/diamondjewelry It was extremely fun participating in the great facebook landrush.

100 Jason Kingston June 14, 2009 at 1:51 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/affiliatemarketing

101 free directory submission June 14, 2009 at 7:54 pm: Wow, this is a good one…

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102 Cheaper Parcel Deliveries June 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm

I don’t even have a Facebook account.

103 Hooshmand Moslemi June 14, 2009 at 2:44 pm

WOW! Jeremy, you’re genius. You’ve chosen one of the most wanted keywords as your URL. That was smart!

What I chose was my own name as my URL. Here it is:

http://www.facebook.com/Hooshmand.Moslemi

Peace!

Hooshmand

104 fasf June 14, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Did not get what I was looking for so settled for blog name.

105 Keith Cash June 14, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Just me

http://www.facebook.com/KeithCash

106 VaBeachKevin June 14, 2009 at 8:01 pm

I picked up http://www.facebook.com/v.a.b.e.a.c.h.k.e.v.i.n

107 David Halpert June 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm

You wouldn’t believe it. I run a science fiction blog (http://www.scifiwatch.net) so you could imagine my surprise when I was able to get the below URL on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/sciencefiction

108 Russ June 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm

I got one. It will work for me. Please check me out here. I think the FB vanity is a place that will work well. Thanks for keeping me posted Jeremy. I like the X marketer as well. I read is every week. Gives me renewed focus. Which all developers and marketers need.

http://www.facebook.com/russ.bauer

109 Oho State Football June 14, 2009 at 9:07 pm

http://facebook.com/brutusreport

110 BB June 14, 2009 at 9:10 pm

I am boycotting facebook because my girlfriend spends more time on it than she does on me. Seriously, how much fun can it possibly be to email and click around with the geeks from your high school who are now old and balding?

111 Phil Ayres June 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Nothing fancy… I just managed to acquire my name:

http://www.facebook.com/philayres

112 Wess June 14, 2009 at 11:13 pm

What is social networking, but an opportunity for shameless self-promotion?

I snagged:

http://www.facebook.com/wessrocks

113 turisuna June 15, 2009 at 1:20 am

I don’t need to rush, I just use my name ^-^
http://www.facebook.com/turisuna

114 Ricky Peterson June 15, 2009 at 7:55 am

http://www.facebook.com/bloggingwithchris

115 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:56 am: When we click on your given URL this message was showing …

The page you requested was not found

Seems to me some mistake

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116 SEO Services June 15, 2009 at 8:14 am

For my personal page, I got my name. For my company, I wasn’t able to get anything yet because we didn’t meet the time criteria. One of the things I’m working on here is social media presence. We’re under new ownership and it hasn’t been addressed before.

Which is cool, y’know, you get a new job and you have to play on Facebook. Poor me, right?

117 Nick Stamoulis June 15, 2009 at 8:16 am

I can’t beleive how much hype has been around this. For all those people who got the famous names first let the law suits begin.

118 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:54 am: And another opportunity for the lawyer to get more and more business.

Ed Dale started crying for his facebook name as well.

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119 Sell Porn June 15, 2009 at 8:23 am

facebook.com/sellporn

Yeah, thats right, I do sell porn. and it does pay. Even if everyone thinks I am a pig.
Oh well.

120 Pete June 15, 2009 at 8:27 am

I got the keyword “world war 2″ for my fan page:

http://www.facebook.com/worldwar2

http://www.facebook.com/world.war.2

121 Tyler Ford June 15, 2009 at 8:51 am

My name:

http://www.facebook.com/tyler.ford

122 Michael Henry June 15, 2009 at 9:16 am

I nabbed

http://www.facebook.com/mikehenry

Lots of names were already gone at 12:10am when I remembered to sign-in.

So thats twitter and facebook that I was able to get one of my top picks w/o a squatter beating me to the punch.

123 Ovidiu June 15, 2009 at 10:00 am

I got http://www.facebook.com/SEORomania

124 Online Marketing June 15, 2009 at 10:32 am

I got http://www.facebook.com/makecashonline

Nice but not exactly the most seached term n’est pas?

125 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:46 am: You have got really nice and attractive. Now we would love to see whether this one will give your benefit in SERP rankings.

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126 Internet Marketing Tips June 15, 2009 at 11:14 am

My desired username got snagged also! Thinking of another, though.

127 ken nix June 15, 2009 at 11:38 am

Well, I got 4 that I think are fantastic. First, facebook.com/kennix. then facebook.com/portlandoregon. facebook.com/clearinternet and the last one was so good, I don’t want to say at this time. I can say I’ve already been contacted by over 50 people trying to talk me out of it. LOL I was really amazed I got it. But if you’re into search marketing, it is a coveted title. ***evil smile***
ken

128 Jason Kingston June 15, 2009 at 1:18 pm: Yeah I was AMAZED at the URL that I got as well. I guess we’ll see if it pays off later or not. It’d be interesting to see all of those contact emails because I’ve only had a few and I thought mine was pretty good.

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129 bob June 15, 2009 at 9:19 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/45bob369fgwer
and was very lucky to grab it from others.

130 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:42 am: I do not think that any one can create such awesome combination … lollzz

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131 Holly Mann June 16, 2009 at 12:04 pm

My name was taken so I used my FULL name: http://www.facebook.com/HollyBethMann/

132 Matthew June 17, 2009 at 8:54 am

I chose my surname therefore http://www.facebook.com/simiana

133 Kevin June 18, 2009 at 4:33 am

facebook.com/selfemployed

134 Adult Dating June 18, 2009 at 8:49 am

I was able to get my name.

But I had to use my whole name.

Its all good though

135 J June 18, 2009 at 8:55 am

I got,

/onlinedating
/acaiberry
/cheaptickets

I think I did very well – thoughts?

136 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:40 am: So rest two are of fake accounts or you have used your relative accounts as well.

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137 Bill Ross June 18, 2009 at 1:20 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/billross

138 Answer Blip Trivia June 18, 2009 at 1:21 pm

I got http://www.facebook.com/answerblip

139 Internet Entrepreneur June 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm

I just got my surname.. so it facebook.com/bakhos

I didnt want to get my full name because it someone was to search that I want the first search listing to be my blog, not my Facebook page!

140 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:39 am: So you do not want to distract your visitors by showing your facebook page.

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141 Nahid June 19, 2009 at 7:34 am

http://www.facebook.com/nahid

142 ZK @ Web Marketing Blog June 21, 2009 at 12:38 am: Where are you in your facebook photo.

I would advice you to put your own photo only in social network.

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143 Manuel June 20, 2009 at 9:47 am