Comments on: Facebook to allow customised & personalised usernames http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/09/facebook-to-allow-customised-personalised-usernames/ "I am what I am because of who we all are" [Ubuntu] Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: franky http://www.rickseymour.com/2009/06/09/facebook-to-allow-customised-personalised-usernames/comment-page-1/#comment-33 franky Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:38:42 +0000 http://www.rickseymour.com/?p=438#comment-33 <cite>Call me cynical but this will allow facebook to pull in more search engine results for an individuals name. I do hope that Google does not prioritise this or else you could have pages worth of useless content.</cite> Wrong, Facebook's PR and Google weight is heavy enough already to rank well for most names. This will allow you to use your Facebook URL on your business cards in an easy way though. Much like most platforms always have offered. The URLs now are an utter PitA. Call me cynical but this will allow facebook to pull in more search engine results for an individuals name. I do hope that Google does not prioritise this or else you could have pages worth of useless content.

Wrong, Facebook’s PR and Google weight is heavy enough already to rank well for most names. This will allow you to use your Facebook URL on your business cards in an easy way though. Much like most platforms always have offered. The URLs now are an utter PitA.

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