Create Customized URLs on All Your Social Profiles
Not all major social networks automatically create profile URLs out of your full name or username by default when you sign up.
Exceptions: Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Pinterest
Your Twitter URL will always be twitter.com/username. Your Instagram URL will always be instagram.com/username. Your Tumblr URL will always be username.tumblr.com, and your Pinterest URL will always be pinterest.com/username. When you change your username on any of these social networks, your URL automatically changes.
Ones You Can Change: Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
Some of the most popular social networks don’t set up your profile URL for you by default, using your full name or username. For example, Facebook started notifying users that they could change their profile URLs years after it launched. Look at the URLs of your Facebook profile, Facebook pages, YouTube channel, and LinkedIn profile. Snapchat makes it possible for users to share their usernames with new contacts, so you should consider looking into that, as well.
Why Streamline Your Social Profile URLs
Customizing your social profile URLs can make your profiles more discoverable. A couple of benefits to changing your URL are:
Give new contacts an exact URL to connect with you. Then you don’t have to tell people “look me up on Facebook” and force them to play a guessing game of which profile is yours. You can say, “my profile is facebook.com/myname,” and they’ll find you on the first try.Rank in the search engines for your name. When somebody searches for your full name or your business name in Google, your profile is more likely to come up as a top result if its URL also includes your full name or business name.
Change Your Profile URL (Username) on Facebook
Let’s start with changing your Facebook profile URL.
Change Your Page URL on Facebook
Now let’s take a look at how to change your URL for a public Facebook page. Your URL displays as facebook.com/[username]. Enter your password to confirm the change.
How to Change Your Channel URL on YouTube
Depending on when and how you set up your YouTube channel, you may have a custom channel URL without knowing it. The page URL becomes www.facebook.com/[Username].
How to Change Your Profile URL on LinkedIn
Changing your LinkedIn URL is relatively easy, and you’re allowed to change your URL up to five times over 180 days.
How to Share Your Snapchat Username URL With New Contacts
While you can’t exactly plug a Snapchat URL into a web browser to see a user’s profile, you can share a link through the app to make it easier for new contacts to add you. Your new LinkIn URL is www.linkedin.com/in/[username]. When new contacts see the link from the tweet you posted or the message you sent them, they can tap it from a mobile device, and it prompts their Snapchat app to open a preview of your profile so that they can add you.
