How To Create Google Plus Vanity URL With Custom Username

Posted In Google, Tips & Tricks - By Soap Young On Thursday, July 7th, 2011 With 11 Comments

Google Plus Nick 2011 07 07 11 55 34 How To Create Google Plus Vanity URL With Custom Username

Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 116552493316270859899. Ewwwwwwww! Here’s how to pretty it up.

That Google+ profile address looks like crap on the Web, and even worse in an email signature. But if you want to share your profile, and make it easy to remember, head to Gplus.to. It’s an easy vanity URL-shortener that will let you create a handy nickname that redirects to your Google+ account. So instead of user 116552493316270859899, It can just be Gplus.to/yourname.

Note: If you already had a Google profile set up before the Google+ launch, that address (such as http: //profiles.google.com/yourusername) now points to your Google+ profile.

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  1. This sud suffice until Google launches custom url for google+ which i suppose wont be anytime soon !!!

  2. Mainual says:

    Temporarily cool solution

  3. Gplus.to was the first one to jump at the opportunity and seems to fare quite well.

    The other alternative, of course, is to use one of the “established” URL shorteners (à la tinyurl, bit.ly etc) and create a customized shortcut there.

  4. James says:

    Just launched DirPl.us a Google+ users directory and Short URL creator.

    The full directory will launch shortly. Please add yourself and share it with your friends!

  5. merry says:

    Try this for Google plus username or short url – http://iGpl.us

  6. 4Gplus says:

    another alternative to customize profile url from googleplus is http:// 4gplus.me
    It’s simple ;D

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