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How to Set Custom Short URL for Google Plus Page

Updated on Aug 2, 2019 by Tuan Do

After a long time anticipating, Google Plus is finally open for business as it allows creating Google Plus Page. The new feature is very similar to Facebook Fan Page and someone even called it the Google’s version of Facebook Page. This is an important move of Google Plus as the social network was open for individuals only and said no to anonymity and brands. Now all companies, celebrities or sport teams can create their own Google+ Pages at http://plus.google.com/pages/create.

The change absolutely can bring more new users and increase the number of Google Plus Profiles to more than the current number of 40 millions. Google+ has some advantages over Facebook, for example, the comprehensive collection of free services like Search, Gmail, Documents, etc, could help them easily promote and tie the network to those services. However, there is an important feature that is not available widely on Google Plus yet, that is the option to change Google Plus Page name. It is really not comfortable to promote your Google+ Page with a difficult-to-remember long numerical string. Here is the URL to TechWalls’ Page:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100456744122229823295/

This guide will show you two ways to claim a vanity URL for your Google Plus Page.

1. Custom URL from Google+ Direct Connect

Update: Google is launching Google+ Direct Connect that users can use the “+” symbol before a brand name to go directly to a Google+ page in search. Custom URLs are still under development and Google says that they probably will charge monthly fee for the URLs. Here is how you can get the custom URLs for your Google Plus page:

1. Go to your Google Plus Page -> Dashboard

2. You will see some tabs on the top, go to For Your Site and install a badge on your website. Just by adding the snippet of code to your site, you will help understand your page’s popularity and relevancy.

3. Come back to your Dashboard, choose Edit Page under Overview tab. Add link to your website on Google Plus page.

4. Wait for Google to approve and roll out custom URLs for your website.

5. You will receive an email or notification when you sign in to Google Plus account. I received an email like this:

Get a custom URL for your Google Plus Page

You’re now eligible for a unique Google+ custom URL that lets you easily point folks to your page (no more long URLs!). Here’s what we’ve reserved for you: google.com/+TechWalls

You will also see the notification in your account:

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6. You will now just click on the link or the Get URL button to confirm you want to change the address.

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7. Now you can access our Google Plus Page through the following links: google.com/+techwalls or plus.google.com/+techwalls

2. Shorten Google+ URL

In case your page hasn’t been approved for a vanity URL as Google Plus hasn’t made it widely available yet (it is even not available for Google+ individual accounts), you need to use some alternative ways to shorten the URL like we set custom URL for Google+ Individual Profiles.

Gplus is an URL shortening service but it is not an official tool from Google, so you use it at your own risk.

Here are the steps:

1. Create your Google Plus Page

2. Go to your Page and get the Page ID on the address bar. For example, my page’s ID is 100456744122229823295.

3. Go to Gplus.to.

4. Fill in your desired Page name and the ID below, then click on the button Add.

5. Your Page URL is generated now and you will get one like this:

http://gplus.to/techwalls

Let us know if you have successfully claimed the vanity URL for your Google Plus page and how you did it.

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Comments

  1. S. Anders says

    Nov 8, 2013 at 7:53 am

    Hello,
    I tried to change the URL of my Google+ page (company profile) into a custom URL. The necessary requirements are fulfilled. But the first link (http://plus.google.com/pages/create) in the text above doesn’t work. I have to log in with my login data, but then there is error 404. Can anybody help me and tell me what’s the problem.
    Thank you for your support.

    Reply
    • Tuan Do says

      Nov 8, 2013 at 10:34 am

      Hi,
      I don’t have any problem accessing the link. Could you please try again?
      Or Google uses different URL for other countries? That’s weird.

      Reply
  2. Bhupendra Chahar says

    Nov 14, 2013 at 8:21 am

    hi , Tuan
    I have Custom URL – (google.com/+bhupendrachaharjaat) But i want to change again Custom url . I want to actual URL (google.com/+bhupendrachahar)( Also available ) But how ?
    Please give me some Ideas. How to change my custom url to custom url

    Reply
  3. Anita Miller says

    Nov 28, 2013 at 3:15 am

    I would say I’m one of those happy lad who got my G+ URL customized. However, I don’t know the frequency you can apply to the changes you made.

    Reply
  4. Arslan Qamar says

    Dec 10, 2013 at 2:22 am

    I have try on my page. but I can’t see these option. Please share some video tutorial…

    Reply
  5. Himanshu Sethi says

    May 8, 2014 at 2:25 am

    I tried a lot, But i cant find find option of “for my site” …Please help

    Reply
  6. Muhammad Shakeel says

    Aug 9, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    Hey TechWalls blog!
    Thanks for such a nice post.
    i have also created a G+ page for my website smartweb and completed my profile and linked my site to G+, but g+ team is talking time to verify my website.
    can u tell me how many days they require or take to verify my website with G+.

    Reply
    • Tuan Do says

      Aug 9, 2014 at 3:36 pm

      Hi Muhammand,
      Google sent me an email after just 2 days.

      Reply
  7. MCPETheGamerPro says

    Apr 21, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Hi, this is quite complicating bro :D Very good and worked though :D :D

    Reply
  8. Stevo says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 8:41 am

    I don’t have any of the options you describe on my Google+ page.

    Reply
    • Arkantos says

      Oct 10, 2016 at 12:31 pm

      Me neither.

      Reply
  9. Ramesh says

    May 21, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    Good tips. I didn’t see the URL section in my About section of the page initially. Apparently, verification seems to be mandatory to pick custom URL.

    Reply
  10. midnight says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 5:42 am

    nice tips thanks

    Reply
  11. Gmail says

    Nov 27, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    HELP !! I didn’t find “For Your Site” option at first.

    Reply
  12. Toorsy says

    Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33 am

    There are now NEW Rules for getting a custom URL for Google+ Brand Page:
    There are a few rules to bear in mind when you’re trying to get a custom URL. If you’re having trouble, make sure that:
    You have ten or more followers (people who have added you to their circles)
    Your account is at least 30 days old
    Your profile has a profile photo
    Your account is in good standing

    Thanks
    Toorsy

    Reply
  13. Prince says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    when i click the link for creating new google plus page i redirected to google business adding page.

    Reply
  14. Lancelam says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    Hi there, I was really looking for a detailed step by step guide to do this because I was really confused about doing this. Thanks a lot, buddy. Keep posting good stuff. Cheers.

    Reply
  15. Nishat Mahmud says

    Jul 19, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Hello mate,
    I have been looking for this article for a very long time. Finally, I have found your article and it helped me to build up my own Google+ Page for my website.
    Thanks for sharing this useful article.
    Keep up the good work.

    Reply
  16. alvina says

    Sep 7, 2017 at 8:10 am

    Hi, Thank you for the valuable article. but when I click the link for creating new google plus page I redirected to google business adding page. am not able to do the same :(

    Reply
  17. Tour Bali says

    Nov 12, 2017 at 10:43 am

    is it work for google business brand page, not the local business page

    Reply
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