{"id":38847,"date":"2013-10-31T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T05:29:15","slug":"brand-google-custom-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/10\/brand-google-custom-url\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab Your Branded Google+ Custom Url"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the right time to grab Google+\u00a0custom urls for your brand&#8217;s Google+ page. Google has revealed that they are rolling out custom urls to all eligible pages and profiles over the week &#8230; and you should hurry to get you favorite custom vanity url which will gives solid branding. If you are late, someone else may grab you custom url and you might need to adopt poor brand options.<\/p>\n<h2>Google+ Custom Urls<\/h2>\n<p>While Google+ has initiated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/google-plus-short-custom-name-urls\/\">custom profiles for top brands and celebrities<\/a> over a year back, it is now finally rolling out to all profile and pages. We excitedly logged into our Google+ page and indeed there is a pre-approved url waiting to be approve based on our page name.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38848\" alt=\"google+ custom url\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-google-url.png\" width=\"426\" height=\"34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-google-url.png 426w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-google-url-150x11.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/custom-google-url-300x23.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you click on the &#8216;Get Url&#8217; link, a pop up alert gets you to confirm your url change.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Saver Google+ url\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/save-custom-url.png\" width=\"334\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is great as it will change the difficult to recall url<br \/>\n<em>plus.google.com\/104720479662987122222<\/em><br \/>\nto<br \/>\n<em>google.com\/+Quickonlinetips<\/em> (which is great for branding)<\/p>\n<p>After you agree to change url, it will again ask to confirm change as you cannot revert back or transfer the url later if needed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Confirm Google+ url\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/confirm-custom-url.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And once you confirm, the new url is live!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Custom Google+ url\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-custom-url.png\" width=\"419\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this is our new Google+ url<br \/>\ngoogle.com\/+Quickonlinetips<br \/>\nwhich actually redirects now to\u00a0https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+Quickonlinetips<\/p>\n<h2>Eligibility for Google+ Custom Urls<\/h2>\n<p>So how do you know if your page is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/plus\/answer\/2676340?hl=en&amp;topic=2400106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eligible<\/a> for getting a pre-approved custom vanity url?\u00a0For Google+ pages the only requirement is that they should link to a website! For local Google+ pages, you need a verified local business. For profiles the rules needs at least 10 followers, a profile photo and a profile older than 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>What are you waiting for &#8211; grab your custom url before someone else does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the right time to grab Google+\u00a0custom urls for your brand&#8217;s Google+ page. Google has revealed that they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38850,"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":[6,3,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-google","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847","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=38847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}