Google+ Vanity URLs Are Here!

Posted by Kyle Misencik on Aug 17, 2012 in Articles by Kyle Misencik, Google+, Local Search, Social Media | 0 comments

The big news has finally been released – Google+ is going to allow vanity URLs for large brands much like Facebook & Twitter do. The product manager at Google, Saurabh Sharma, released this post announcing the change and gives examples of what your brand’s URL could look like.

I immediately think back to a blog post I wrote on the initial Google+ Places rollout and how Google was against both linking Google+ social pages to Google+ Places pages as well as assigning vanity URLs. Both have come to fruition. I guess nothing is ever set in stone at Google.

Learn more about connecting your Google+ social profile to your Google+ Places profile, which essentially involves going through the same PIN verification process you’d have to go through for verifying your Places listing, only for your Google+ social page.

I’ll follow-up again on this subject as Google begins to offer vanity URLS to a wider audience.

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Kyle Misencik

Senior Campaign Director, Organic Search at Intrapromote

You don't want to mess with Kyle Misencik, another one of our SEO Campaign Directors. He may be able to woo you with all his geeky analytics speak, be warned... he was a bouncer in a former life. Kyle joined Intrapromote in 2011 and has been knocking our socks off since day one. (By the way, Kyle, we'd like our socks back.) Kyle is a huge music fan and his interests lie across a variety of genres. His IP claim to fame lies in the fact that he was born on Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you) and when he isn't updating a client's SEO work, he's off snowboarding, playing drums or jumping on the nearest motorcycle he can find.