Linking to your Facebook profile
Thursday, October 9th, 2008submitted by: Tim Priebe
Want to link to your Facebook profile on your website? It’s not quite as easy as you might think. Unfortunately, Facebook does not provide a built-in way to link directly to your profile. Google to the rescue…
One of the features you might not already know about on Google is the ability to search specific sites only. So we can actually search Facebook only for your name, and see what address Google shows us.
Let’s try a client of ours here at T&S, Missi Bryant of MissiBryantVA.com. (Hi, Missi!) We’ll search Google by typing in the exact following phrase. Make sure you don’t put any spaces before or after the colon (:).
site:facebook.com Missi Bryant
If your search results were anything like mine, Missi’s profile is the first one that pops up. Right below it, Google shows the actual link to her profile page.
www.facebook.com/people/Missi_Bryant/1147929675
Not quite as succinct as it could be, but there it is. Copy and paste that link onto your web page (and be sure to add the http:// at the beginning), and you’re good to go.
Here’s a screenshot of the search results:
Just a warning: This actually links to your “public search listing” on Facebook. A website visitor must be logged in to continue on to your profile.
