I've seen a lot of information out there about getting a Google+ vanity URL, and how Google needs to get on the stick with that piece of updating right quick.
Well, for all of you out there who own a domain, I have a solution. I own the domain www.swaymaker.com - it's a nice domain, and hosts a Wordpress copy of this blog. For now.
Here's what you do...you go to whatever dashboard your domain vendor provides you with. If you have a GoDaddy domain, or one of several other domain vendors, you'll have free subdomains. GoDaddy give you 90 of them.
So I set up http://plus.swaymaker.com and then go to my G+ profile page and copy the URL. It's https://plus.google.com/100074993095416326109/posts so I can see why people want vanity URLs. Then I point the forwarding for plus.swaymaker.com at the Google+ profile page and...that's it.
Wait for the change to go through your vendor's system and you can now happily point people to plus.yourdomain.com -- sure, it's going to go crazy when Google do allow vanity URLs, but this will work for now.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Get Your GooglePlus Vanity URL
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