The Facebook gold rush for user names went ahead this morning and already we are seeing the fallout. Twitter is a blaze with “%$^* I didn’t get my name” etc and, amusingly, some in the web marketing community are ticked off that keywords were taken before they could get to them, one web market saying ‘he isn’t even one of us and he only has 100 backlinks, what a waste’ about the guy who got makemoneyonline as his username.
Battle was joined with individuals clamouring for their names, and then bragging about it on Twitter, but by far the most activity has been savvy Internet marketers grabbing keywords. There was no squatting allowed because only accounts opened before June 9th counted, so you had to be quick and realise that your account would be stuck with your shiny new user name for-ever and people got creative according to the Tweets that were whizzing around
It will be interesting to see how the user names rank in the search engines. Some say it won’t make much difference but, judging by the amount of SEO guys who were posting on boards early doors this morning, it probably will be something useful in SEO.
One of our crowd was after ‘Facebook.com/Make.Money.Online’ but was beaten to the punch but quickly rethought and got ‘Facebook.com/Make.Cash.Online‘ and is in the process of linking everything back here. One guy also got Facebook.com/Online.Trading which he couldn’t believe. I was almost certain that those kind of keywords would be scooped up well before anyone got the chance to get hold, but I guess some SEO guys were sleeping last night and ours weren’t!
I am just waiting to see who of the big boys were asleep at the wheel. John Chow got his name and Shoemoney also passed the test, so I guess we can all sleep more safely knowing that;-), but I am sure some missed out. A quick scan sees Aston Kutcher’s twitter name ‘aplusk‘ biting the dust to one Banjamin Standerfer and Trevor McFedries collars ‘IamDiddy‘ Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combes Twitter name. I suspect they couldn’t give two hoots but judging buy the hundreds, if not thousands of comments on Twitter with a link to the ‘aplusk’ Facebook name, it was a smart move. I do like the name for what he did ‘brand jacking’.
Anyway, I guess we will see what affect these user names have when they hit Google properly. Having just done a search there aren’t that many that have been indexed yet, only some celeb names who, I understand were given their names a few days ago.
Interesting to note that, apparently, celeb names are being protected by Facebook, for example ‘BradPitt’ has not been allocated and comes up with ‘The page you requested was not found’.
All in all we will have to see what affect the rush to grab keyword user names really has, one thing is for sure, those who got in there first, as is always the way for the Internet, will be in the pound seats if there is an effect on SEO… Let’s hope so.. eh!
What are your thoughts? Do you think those who grabbed some decent keywords will see any benefit?
Battle was joined with individuals clamouring for their names, and then bragging about it on Twitter, but by far the most activity has been savvy Internet marketers grabbing keywords. There was no squatting allowed because only accounts opened before June 9th counted, so you had to be quick and realise that your account would be stuck with your shiny new user name for-ever and people got creative according to the Tweets that were whizzing around
It will be interesting to see how the user names rank in the search engines. Some say it won’t make much difference but, judging by the amount of SEO guys who were posting on boards early doors this morning, it probably will be something useful in SEO.
One of our crowd was after ‘Facebook.com/Make.Money.Online’ but was beaten to the punch but quickly rethought and got ‘Facebook.com/Make.Cash.Online‘ and is in the process of linking everything back here. One guy also got Facebook.com/Online.Trading which he couldn’t believe. I was almost certain that those kind of keywords would be scooped up well before anyone got the chance to get hold, but I guess some SEO guys were sleeping last night and ours weren’t!
I am just waiting to see who of the big boys were asleep at the wheel. John Chow got his name and Shoemoney also passed the test, so I guess we can all sleep more safely knowing that;-), but I am sure some missed out. A quick scan sees Aston Kutcher’s twitter name ‘aplusk‘ biting the dust to one Banjamin Standerfer and Trevor McFedries collars ‘IamDiddy‘ Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combes Twitter name. I suspect they couldn’t give two hoots but judging buy the hundreds, if not thousands of comments on Twitter with a link to the ‘aplusk’ Facebook name, it was a smart move. I do like the name for what he did ‘brand jacking’.
Anyway, I guess we will see what affect these user names have when they hit Google properly. Having just done a search there aren’t that many that have been indexed yet, only some celeb names who, I understand were given their names a few days ago.
Interesting to note that, apparently, celeb names are being protected by Facebook, for example ‘BradPitt’ has not been allocated and comes up with ‘The page you requested was not found’.
All in all we will have to see what affect the rush to grab keyword user names really has, one thing is for sure, those who got in there first, as is always the way for the Internet, will be in the pound seats if there is an effect on SEO… Let’s hope so.. eh!
What are your thoughts? Do you think those who grabbed some decent keywords will see any benefit?
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Hey Guys… interesting to see how many blogs and websites were talking about the elusive http://www.facebook.com/makemoneyonline
I was actually offered $500 in the first 10 minutes, but as you mention the SEO benefit is yet to be seen.
But hey everything’s for sale at the right price isn’t it…
Cheers
Nathan @ Web Money Blog
Zavrion… It remains to be seen what SEO benefit we get… I guess we will see the rankings etc fairly shortly. We have been offerred money for facebook.com/makecashonline already…
I managed to get facebook.com/resveratrol, and I’m not sure there is going to be a massive benefit or anything. Also, Acaiberry wasn’t allowed as a vanity URL.