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
• How to claim a Custom URL on Google+
• What if my Google+ Profile or Page isn't offered the Custom URL I want?
• How to alter your Google+ Custom URL

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

2014 Yr Inward Review: Youtube As Well As Google+ Closer Than Ever

In 2014 YouTube in addition to Google+ integration actually took off. On November 6, 2013 YouTube switched to the novel Google+-based commenting system. Over the yesteryear twelvemonth YouTube in addition to Google+ became fifty-fifty to a greater extent than tightly entwined. YouTube in addition to Google+ introduced a lay out of novel features, piece nosotros said goodbye to others (RIP YouTube Inbox).

There was a alter at the top for both products. At YouTube Susan Wojcicki - formerly Google SVP for advertising - took over from Salar Kamangar, piece over on Google+ Vic Gundotra was replaced yesteryear quondam Google+ VP of Engineering Dave Besbris. I recollect it's withal also early on to nation whether that represents a meaning shift inwards direction, but their interviews at Re/code give a feel of management things are heading:

• Comments page brings your comments inwards i place
• View in addition to moderate comments on your channel: www.youtube.com/comments

Get A Custom Url For Your Youtube Channel Together With Google+

Update Apr 2, 2019: amongst the shutdown of consumer Google+, Google+ custom URLs volition no longer work. This volition non send upon YouTube custom URLs.

Update  Apr 5, 2017: yous tin at nowadays take Custom URLs, as well as add together a novel dissimilar Custom URL.  Learn how to alter your Google+ Custom URL.

Update Dec 16, 2016: YouTube Custom URLs are at nowadays independent of Google+ Custom URLs (Official Announcement)

Go to www.youtube.com/features to reckon if your YouTube channel is eligible for a Custom URL.

Learn how to add together a Custom URL to your Google+ Profile or Page.

Update 10/13/15: at nowadays solely 100 subscribers are required for custom URL eligibility, rather than 500 subscribers. 

Update 3/4/15: you tin at nowadays banking concern stand upwards for the custom URL laid for your channel inward your channel's Advanced Account Settings (https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

Update 2/26/15: shorthand vanity URLs are at nowadays based on the novel /c/ custom URL, rather than the onetime /user/ custom URL. More details

If yous have got late created a novel YouTube channel, yous are certain to have got noticed the default channel URL includes a long string of characters that are difficult to yell back as well as tricky to type. H5N1 custom URL makes it slowly to part as well as promote your channel.

At the destination of Nov 2014 YouTube introduced a novel custom URL process. New custom URLs at nowadays apply to both your YouTube channel as well as the Google+ Page or Google+ Profile connected to your your channel.

That agency i unified identity as well as URL across Google products. And if your channel already has an old-style YouTube username URL, this is an chance to add together a novel custom URL that improve reflects your channel’s electrical flow identity.

How the novel YouTube as well as Google+ custom URL procedure works:

1. Your YouTube channel or your Google+ Page or Google+ Profile becomes eligible for a custom URL
2. Google offers i or to a greater extent than custom URLs based on a number of factors including your Google+ name, YouTube channel name, electrical flow YouTube /user/ URL, as well as associated website domain. It is non possible to asking a particular custom URL.
3. After claiming an offered custom URL, it straight off applies to both your YouTube channel as well as Google+.
   
       Google+ URL:       plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC
       YouTube URL:      www.youtube.com/c/PeggyKTC
4. You tin alter the capitalization, diacritics as well as accents on letters of the custom URL, simply non the URL itself

If your Google+ Page or Profile already has a custom URL, therefore that URL already applies to your YouTube channel connected to that Google+ identity. Check your channel's Advanced Account Settings (https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced).

Questions? Read on to larn to a greater extent than virtually YouTube as well as Google+ custom URLs:

• What are the eligibility requirements for a custom URL?
• How practise I uncovering the Custom URL offer?
• How practise I claim the custom URL?
• What tin I practise if I don’t similar the offered custom URL or ask to add together a suffix?
• How tin I alter the custom URL i time it's laid (capitalization, diacritics as well as accents)?
• If I add together a novel custom URL volition the onetime custom URL for my YouTube channel withal work?
• Why doesn’t my novel YouTube channel custom URL display inward the address bar?
• Why does the onetime shorthand vanity URL for my channel at nowadays direct to a dissimilar channel?
• Why hasn't my YouTube channel or Google+ Page been offered a custom URL?!

What are the eligibility requirements for a custom URL?

Either your YouTube channel or the Google+ Page or Profile it's connected to tin qualify for a custom URL. Once the custom URL is laid it applies to both YouTube as well as Google+.

Check your channel's Advanced Account Settings (https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced) to reckon if your channel already has a custom URL.

YouTube channel custom URL minimum eligibility requirements:

• Channel is inward good standing
• 100 or to a greater extent than subscribers
• Channels is at to the lowest degree xxx days old
• Channel has uploaded a photograph for the channel icon
• Channel has uploaded channel art

Learn to a greater extent than inward the YouTube assistance center.

If your channel does non reckon those requirements, it is oftentimes easier to brand the Google+ Profile or Google+ Page connected to your channel eligible instead. 

Google+ Profile custom URL eligibility requirements:

• Your line of piece of work organisation human relationship is inward proficient standing
• You have got x or to a greater extent than followers (people who have got added yous to their circles)
• Your line of piece of work organisation human relationship is at to the lowest degree xxx days old
• Your profile has a profile photo

Learn to a greater extent than inward the Google+ Help Center

Google+ Page custom URL eligibility requirements:

• Account is inward proficient standing
• If a Google+ Brand Page: must be linked to a website
• If a Google+ Local Page: must move a verified local business

Learn to a greater extent than inward the Google My Business Help Center

My channel is eligible, how practise I uncovering the Custom URL offer?

It is non possible to asking a custom URL. Instead, i time your YouTube channel or your Google+ Profile or Page connected to your channel becomes eligible for a custom URL, yous volition move offered i or to a greater extent than URLs that yous tin claim. You should have an electronic mail notification from YouTube or Google+ when a custom URL is ready for yous to claim.

However, inward my experience, the electronic mail notification seems to sometimes transcend away missing. If yous are certain your YouTube channel or Google+ Page is eligible for a custom URL, yous tin banking concern stand upwards for for offers directly.

Sign inward to Google+ as well as persuasion the “About” tab of your Google+ Profile or Page. If a custom URL is available yous should reckon a banner at the top of the page:

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And yous should reckon a Google+ URL department inward the Links box:

Note that if your YouTube channel is connected to a Google+ Page, yous must move signed inward every bit the director of that Google+ Page to reckon the offered custom URL(s).

You should too reckon a message on YouTube channel's notifications page: www.youtube.com/notifications

How practise I claim the offered custom URL for my YouTube channel as well as Google+?

Using a desktop computer, yous tin claim your URL from the link inward the notification email, the notification inward YouTube channel’s Creator Studio or Notifications, or from the “Links” department on the About tab your Google+ Profile or Google+ Page.

1. On the notification message, click the link that says “Get yours now” or “Get URL”

2. a Google+ window amongst your custom URL options volition open

3. select the custom URL yous desire to purpose as well as add together extra characters if required

4. grip to the Custom URL Terms of Use

5. click the dark-green “Change URL” button

Note: i time yous have got claimed the custom URL it cannot move changed! Don’t claim a custom URL unless it’s i yous are happy with!

What if I don’t similar the offered custom URL? or I’m required to add together a suffix?

One of the drawbacks of the electrical flow custom URL procedure is that yous cannot select the custom URL yourself.  Instead yous tin solely conduct from what Google offers you.

You may ask to add together extra characters to the offered URL. H5N1 dark-green banking concern stand upwards for grade volition demonstrate if the URL is available.

This URL is not available (because it's already inward use)

This URL is available

But what if I don't desire the offered URL? 

If yous practise non similar the offered custom URL, or practise non desire to add together a required suffix, don’t claim it. Once the custom URL is laid it cannot move changed. 

While it's non possible to asking a dissimilar custom URL, at that topographic point are a few things yous tin try:

• Wait!
  
  If yous are offered a custom URL that requires a suffix, yous may later on move offered the URL without having to add together extra characters, if that is available. Keep an optic on the Links box on your Google+ About tab, because yous may non move notified of novel custom URL offers.
  
  In the example I demonstrate above, the offering of the custom URL without a suffix appeared inside a calendar week after the master offering that required extra characters
  .
• Make certain your cite as well as associated website accurately reverberate your channel identity
  
  

  

  This is me.

  Google+ as well as YouTube have got non shared whatever details virtually how the offered custom URLs are selected, therefore this is based on observing what URLs Google+ Pages, Profiles as well as YouTube channels are offered. Changing the cite or associated website sometimes may number inward the offering of a dissimilar custom URL (but is non guaranteed to trigger a novel offer).
  
  > Google+ Profiles are oftentimes offered a custom URL based on the Profile cite and/or nickname
  
  > Google+ Brand Pages are commonly offered a custom URL based on the domain of the associated website.
  
  As yous tin reckon inward my example above, linking a gratis Blogger spider web log (Custom URLs on Google+ for Everyone
  
  > Google+ Local Pages may move offered a URL that includes  the line of piece of work organisation cite as well as location, peculiarly if the line of piece of work organisation has multiple location.
  
  +Mike Blumenthal has additional observations here: Learn to a greater extent than virtually the novel shorthand custom URLs.
  

  Why doesn't my novel YouTube channel custom URL display inward the address bar?

  When yous banking concern stand upwards for your YouTube channel, yous may non reckon the novel custom URL. Currently when yous navigate closed to a YouTube channel, the channel URL that displays inward your spider web browser’s address bar volition move either the /channel/ Channel ID URL, or the onetime /user/ username URL. This hopefully volition eventually alter therefore that the novel custom URL displays instead.

Why hasn't my YouTube channel been offered a custom URL?!

If your YouTube channel has non yet been offered a custom URL, start banking concern stand upwards for the following:

• does your channel reckon all of the eligibility requirements?
  Your channel won’t move offered a custom URL until after it’s eligible. Check your channel's Advanced Account Settings (https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced) to reckon if your channel already has a custom URL.
• does the Google+ Page or Profile connected to your channel already have got a custom URL?
  If your Google+ has a custom URL, the connected YouTube channel already has a novel custom URL as well as won’t move offered some other one.
• did your channel solely late became eligible for a custom URL?
  You ask to facial expression for a custom URL offer. Custom URLs are non necessarily offered straight off when a channel (or Google+ Profile or Page) becomes eligible. 

If yous have got questions virtually adding a custom URL to your YouTube channel, yous tin inquire inward the YouTube Help Forum.

If yous have got questions virtually adding a custom URL to your Google+ Page or Google+ Profile, post a inquiry inward the Google+ Help Community.

More information:

Learn to a greater extent than virtually custom URLs on YouTube as well as Google+:

• YouTube Help Center: Channel custom URL
• Google+ Help Center: Get a custom URL for your Google+ Profile
• Google My Business Help Center: Getting started amongst Google+ Custom URLs for Pages
• Google+ TC Jaana Nystrom: Custom URLs on Google+ for Everyone  

Thanks to +Jaana Nyström and +Masatake Wasa for comments as well as suggestions.
Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Shorthand Vanity Urls For Youtube Channels: Instantly Based On New-Style Custom Urls

Ever since the novel YouTube custom URLs were introduced, YouTubers demand maintain wanted to too demand maintain the equivalent shorthand vanity URL - 1 without the /c/ inwards the middle.  Now channels amongst a new-style custom URL automatically demand maintain the equivalent shorthand URL.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 shorthand vanity URL - 1 without a /user/ or /c/ - is useful to role to promote your channel. In the past, that curt URL was virtually oftentimes based on the /user/ URL for the channel. Now that's changed. Shorthand URLs are now based on the novel /c/ custom URL, non the former /user/ URL.

If your channel's former too novel custom URLs are different, yous should banking firm check to last certain the former shorthand URL even thus leads to your channel.

Not certain if your channel has new-style custom URL set? Check your channel's Advanced Account Settings (https://www.youtube.com/account_advanced).

Why does my former shorthand vanity URL straight off straight to the incorrect YouTube channel?

As amongst every change, at that topographic point may last complications:

If your /c/ custom URL matches your channel's former /user/ custom URL, thus the same shorthand URL volition popular off along to operate equally usual. No problem.

Also, if your channel never had a /user/ custom URL, thus this is a nifty novel characteristic that allows your channel to demand maintain a shorthand URL for the outset time.

But what happens if your channel's /c/ custom URL is dissimilar than the former /user/ custom URL?  The former shorthand URL may straight off straight to person else's channel if that channel has claimed the equivalent /c/ custom URL!  

If your channel has a /user/ custom URL, simply no novel /c/ URL, currently your former shorthand URL even thus works, equally long equally no other channel has claimed the equivalent /c/ URL for their channel.

Confused? Here is an example:

I demand maintain 2 channels amongst former manner /user/ custom URLs.

• old-style custom URL: www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt 
  new-style custom URL: www.youtube.com/c/PeggyKTC
• old-style custom URL: www.youtube.com/user/PeggyKTC
  new-style custom URL: none

The agency the shorthand URLs used to work:

• www.youtube.com/PeggyKTC redirected to www.youtube.com/user/PeggyKTC
• www.youtube.com/peggykyt redirected to www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt

The agency the shorthand URLs operate now:

• www.youtube.com/PeggyKTC redirects to
       www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt
      because it has the new-style custom URL www.youtube.com/c/PeggyKTC
• www.youtube.com/peggykyt  currently ALSO redirects to
       www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt 
  (no channel currently has the URL www.youtube.com/c/peggykyt)

There is no longer whatsoever shorthand URL for www.youtube.com/user/PeggyKTC, because a dissimilar channel has the custom URL www.youtube.com/c/PeggyKTC

The solely agency to larn a shorthand URL for add a new-style /c/ custom URL, simply that would non jibe the former /user/ custom URL (because it's already taken).

Complicated!

If your YouTube channel's former /user/ too novel /c/ custom URLs are different, brand certain that whatsoever links too promotional materials are updated amongst the right novel URL. You wouldn't desire to post potential viewers to the incorrect channel!