Make Short Vanity URL for Your Google+ Profile

Google+ has arrived, is in full swing and people are loving it. But there are still things that people coming from Facebook desire in Google+. For one, Google+ does not offer vanity URLs like Facebook. A vanity URL is a short URL to your profile which is easy to remember and share – in contrast to a URL with twenty one character long profile ID. But if you want, you can still have a shorter vanity URL using third party website gplus.to. Here is how :

  1. Visit the Google+ website https://plus.google.com/ and logon to your Google+ account.
  2. Note down your Google+ profile ID from the address bar as shown. It is twenty one character long ID starting after google.com in the address bar of your browser.

    Short Vanity URL for Google+ Profile

  3. Now point your browser to http://gplus.to/. Copy-paste (or type) your Google+ profile ID (that you found in the step 2 above) in the Google+ ID field. Then type a nick for the short URL. This nick can be between three to twenty five characters long and can contain letters and numbers only. Finally click on the Add button.

    Short Vanity URL for Google+ Profile

  4. If everything goes okay, you will be shown your shorter vanity URL for your Google+ profile. This URL is simply gplus.to/ followed by your chosen nick.

    Short Vanity URL for Google+ Profile

Google+ is still in the budding stage and the vanity URL feature is not present. I expect that Google will add this feature in near future but till then you can make use of the free gplus.to service to have a shorter vanity URL for your Google+ profile.