Branding, branding, branding. This seems to be a hot topic on most if not all the blogs that I am subscribed to. Today’s tutorial will focus on how to have a consistent branding across a multitude of social networking sites for your username and/or vanity URL.
Getting Consistent Web Branding
For example, you want to brand yourself as the Viral Marketing Coach and you planned to buy viralmarketingcoach.com. That’s great but before you do so, you may want to check if that same brand can be acquired for your username and vanity URL on social networking sites.
You check if twitter.com/viralmarketingcoach is already taken or www.facebook.com/viralmarketingcoach exists. If it has not been taken yet, you’re in luck and you can start registering viralmarketingcoach.com and proceed to register for a Twitter account with viralmarketingcoach as your username or you start a Facebook fan page and get the vanity URL when the time comes.
Checking Username Or URL Availability
What if Twitter and Facebook is not the only place where you want to push your branding? Maybe your site will be more niche and getting accounts at other social networking sites will be more suitable to attract your intended audience. How can you easily check multiple social networking sites to make sure that your username or vanity URL has not been taken yet?
Simple. You go to namechk to check for your username and vanity URL availability. At the time of this writing, namechk can go through 149 social networking and social bookmarking sites. Here’s a short description of their site.
Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites. Find the best username with namechk.
How To Check Your Username
All you need to do is to type in your desired username and click on the chk button. If you absolutely have to make sure that your username is available for all 149 sites, click on the Show All (149) text below the box before you click on the chk button.
Great idea, right? Do note that it may not be 100% accurate. When you see a result that says taken, click on the result to double-check that it is really unavailable. That is if you are concerned about getting your username with your brand on that site. Otherwise, it may not matter at all. Good luck branding!
