Add Or Alter A Google+ Custom Url

Note: equally utilization of the shutdown of consumer Google+ on Apr 2, 2019 Google+ custom vanity URLs volition no longer live on supported. Any links that utilization Google+ vanity URLs, including Album Archive, volition no longer work. 

When yous laid upwards a Google+ Profile or Page, the link to the profile uses an impossible to retrieve 21-digit user ID.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Custom URL lets yous utilization a link that's slowly to retrieve when yous are promoting your Google+ activity.

If your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL, yous volition reckon a banner on your Profile or Page's profile.  You volition as well as thence cause got the choice to claim the offered Custom URL.

The offered Custom URL is unremarkably based on the cite of the Google+ Profile or Page. You volition non cause got the choice to asking a specific Custom URL.

Also complaint that Google+ as well as YouTube at nowadays cause got split Custom URL systems. Adding a Google+ Custom URL does non do a YouTube channel Custom URL, which has different eligibility requirements.



Read on for detailed instructions:

Eligibility requirements for a Google+ Custom URL


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Google+ Profile or Google+ Page must meet the same requirements to live on offered a custom URL.
  • Ten or to a greater extent than followers 
  • Account is at to the lowest degree xxx days old
  • A profile photo
  • Account is inwards practiced standing
It does non involve to cause got a comprehend image, a minimum number of posts. or live on associated amongst a website (which previously was a requirement for Google+ Pages).

How to claim a Custom URL on Google+


Check to reckon if your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL:

1. Sign inwards to Google+ on a computer as well as if yous cause got a Google+ Page, switch to acting equally manager

2. Click Profile on the left menu

3. If your Google+ Profile or Page is eligible for a Custom URL, in that place volition live on a greyish banner nether the comprehend icon that says:
We've preapproved or thence custom URLs for your page/profile, including plus.google.com/+[example]

Note that in that place may live on to a greater extent than than 1 custom URL choice offered, but yous volition non live on able to propose a specific Custom URL that yous want.

Claim a Custom URL

To claim the offered Custom URL



1. click the CLAIM URL button to opened upwards a novel page amongst your Custom URL options

2. if yous are offered to a greater extent than than 1 option, conduct the Custom URL yous want

If yous add together a suffix to the offered Custom URL, the concluding URL volition display at the locomote yesteryear of the page, adjacent to the Google+ icon:


3. Read the Google+ Custom URL Terms of Use

When yous claim as well as utilization a custom URL, yous must follow the Google Terms of Service, the Google+ User Content as well as Conduct Policy, as well as the Google+ Pages Additional Terms of Service (if applicable), as well as encounter the additional Google+ Custom URL terms. Take fourth dimension to read those.

4. Agree to the Terms of Service

5. Click Save URL 

6. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 alert volition popular upwards - read it as well as Confirm URL




Note that fifty-fifty though it states the Custom URL cannot live on changed, it tin dismiss unremarkably live on changed (with or thence limitations).

And that's it!  Your Google+ profile as well as links to your posts volition automatically display the novel Custom URL.  Any quondam links using the 21-digit user ID should maintain to work.

What if my Google+ Profile or Page isn't offered the Custom URL I want?

Sometimes the offered Custom URL volition non live on the 1 yous wish to use. For instance inwards or thence cases yous may live on required to add together a suffix to claim the Custom URL.

If that's the case, in that place isn't much yous tin dismiss do nearly it.

Keep inwards take heed that the offered Custom URLs are unremarkably based on the Profile or Page name, thence if your desired Custom URL is dissimilar from the name, yous may non larn that offer.

Before yous brand whatsoever cite changes, complaint that your cite volition display across Google products as well as services, including Gmail, YouTube as well as Google Drive. And equally cite changes are limited, yous may involve to await xc days earlier changing it again.

You tin dismiss shipping feedback to Google+ using the Report an issue link on the left menu, but that does non guarantee that yous volition have a novel Custom URL offer.

In many cases, a novel custom URL may live on offered if yous simply wait, although that could cause got weeks (or non occur at all).

How to alter your Google+ Custom URL

You tin dismiss alter your Google+ Custom URL up to iii times per year. 

Before yous alter your Custom URL, maintain inwards mind:
  • removing the quondam Custom URL does non brand that URL available to other Google+ Profiles or Pages
  • any links to your profile or 1 of your posts  using the quondam Custom URL volition live on broken

Note that if yous created your Google+ Page amongst a Google My Business listing, yous volition non cause got this option. You tin dismiss try contacting Google My Business support for assistance.


Remove the electrical flow Google+ Custom URL



1. Sign inwards to Google+ on a figurer as well as if yous cause got a Google+ Page, switch to acting equally manager

2. Click Profile on the left menu

3. On the comprehend icon click ABOUT which opens the "About Me" page for the Profile's Google trouble concern human relationship or Page's Brand Account

4. Under Sites you should reckon your electrical flow Google+ Custom URL
   
If yous cause got a YouTube channel Custom URL it volition live on listed in that place equally well. Note that YouTube has   different Custom URL eligibility requirements. Changing your Google+ Custom URL volition non alter your YouTube channel's Custom URL.

5. On the Sites card click the edit pencil icon at locomote yesteryear right


6. The Sites card editor volition open. Click the X  to the correct of the custom URL to take it.

7. Read the alert information, as well as click CONTINUE



8.  Click OK at the bottom of the card to relieve the changes.

Once yous cause got done that, whatsoever link using the quondam Custom URL volition at nowadays halt working.

Add a novel Custom URL

If your Google+ Profile or Page is as well as thence eligible for a novel Custom URL, yous volition 1 time again reckon a banner on the profile notifying yous that in that place is a Custom URL to claim.

For example, I changed the cite of my Google+ Page from "Fun as well as Games"  amongst the URL +FunandGames to "Fun Games".

After removing the Custom URL, I reckon a novel Custom URL offering on the Google+ Page's profile.


And when I click CLAIM URL I reckon the novel options, including a Custom URL associated amongst the novel cite (+FunGames)  as well as the quondam Custom URL I tin dismiss re-claim (+FunandGames).


But complaint that in that place is no guarantee yous volition live on re-offered the quondam Custom URL or offered a dissimilar Custom URL.

Learn to a greater extent than inwards the Google+ Help Center: Get a Custom URL for your Google+ Profile