{"id":28965,"date":"2012-08-14T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=28965"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:30:03","slug":"google-plus-short-custom-name-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/google-plus-short-custom-name-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"New Short Google+ Custom Urls: Get +YourName"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out +Britney Spears!\u00a0Google+ rolled out custom vanity name URLs for celebrities and popular brands which gave them a short branded name URL instead of the long number code which has been long attached to Google plus profiles and Google plus pages.<\/p>\n<h3>Short Google+ Urls<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28966\" title=\"britney-spears-profile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/britney-spears-profile.png\" alt=\"Britney Spears profile\" width=\"411\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/britney-spears-profile.png 411w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/britney-spears-profile-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/britney-spears-profile-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is what our Google plus page URL looks like right now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104720479662987122222\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104720479662987122222<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if it could look like this<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">google.com\/+QuickOnlineTips<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well actually if you do test the URL below, you will see it is 404 error right now! \u00a0But it does work for a lot of other people with the new change which Google plus introduced today &#8211; you can try\u00a0\u00a0google.com\/+hugoboss, google.com\/+davidbeckham\u00a0or\u00a0google.com\/+delta!<\/p>\n<p>Most of the social media services have already introduced similar vanity URLs for better branding a long time back and we could grab our URLs like<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/quickonlinetips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facebook.com\/quickonlinetips<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com\/QOT<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/quickonlinetips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pinterest.com\/quickonlinetips<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/quickonlinetips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youtube.com\/quickonlinetips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact I remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/facebook-username\/\">Facebook usernames<\/a> were launched and there was a massive rush as people went out of the way to grab their own usernames, with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/journalists-grab-facebook-usernames\/\">journalists getting special privileges<\/a>, and people sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/best-facebook-usernames\/\">cool Facebook usernames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/109179785755319022525\/posts\/aWREtiDhse2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promised<\/a> that they will roll out this feature in a phased manner to many more of its millions of Google+ profiles and Google+ Pages very soon. If you have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/get-verified-google-plus-page\/\">verified Google+ profile<\/a>, there are better chances that Google will upgrade your Google plus URL to your name URL of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out +Britney Spears!\u00a0Google+ rolled out custom vanity name URLs for celebrities and popular brands which gave them a short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}