How To Change My Url On Linkedin

Here's an piece of cake and essential LinkedIn tip that everyone should do ASAP – create a custom LinkedIn profile URL.

Why? A custom URL volition enable you to use your LinkedIn profile as a branding and lead generation tool.

Your default LinkedIn URL is not hands shared with your network

Your default LinkedIn URL is long and full of numbers and other characters, which is not very user friendly or easily shared with your network. The main betoken of LinkedIn is giving others the ability to quickly and hands detect and connect with you lot.

Having a custom LinkedIn URL also helps with SEO on major search engines such as Google and Bing. Setting upward a custom URL requires turning on your LinkedIn public profile – this is what search engines scan – which helps you lot to be found organically.

How to create a custom LinkedIn URL

Setting upwards a custom LinkedIn contour URL is easy to do – if your name is somewhat mutual, you may demand to play around with it a bit to add together in your middle initial or an "esq" or "cpa" because LinkedIn has more than 650 million users, many of whom have already set theirs upwardly – here'southward how your customized LinkedIn profile URL will expect:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/yourname

(With your name, of course, in identify of the language above.)

To change your public profile URL from your desktop:

Click the Me icon at the acme of your LinkedIn homepage.
Click View contour.
Click Edit public contour & URL on the correct rail.
Under Edit your custom URL in the right runway, click the Edit icon next to your public contour URL.
- It'll be an accost that looks like www.linkedin.com/in/yourname.
Type the last part of your new custom URL in the text box.
Click Save.

Hither'south how to change your public profile URL on your mobile device

Tap your profile picture.
Scroll to the Contact and Personal Info department and tap the Edit icon.
On the Edit contact info folio, tap on your personal Profile URL. You'll be redirected to the Public profile settings page.
Under the Edit URL department, tap the Edit icon adjacent to your public profile URL.
5. Type the concluding part of your new custom URL in the text box.

As LinkedIn notes, you tin customize your public profile URL when you lot alter what appears on your public profile. Custom public profile URLs are available on a first-come, first-serve ground. Members tin can only have 1 custom public profile URL at a fourth dimension.

A few other things to notation:

Your custom URL can accept five-30 letters or numbers. Don't use spaces, symbols or special characters.
LinkedIn recommends using a variation of your name and/or your professional brand since you'll share this URL with people, and then they can find your LinkedIn profile. Some job applications may besides ask you for your LinkedIn profile URL. It's a proficient idea to add it to your resume besides.
The customizable part of the URL is example insensitive. This ways using JohnSmith, johnsmith, or johnSmith volition all signal to the aforementioned profile.
If the URL you want isn't available, please select a different one. They tin can't make custom URLs available to members upon request.
You can change your URL up to v times inside six months. Once you lot have changed your URL for the fifth time, you won't be able to modify it for another vi months. Irresolute your URL several times may make information technology hard for people to find yous.

I recommend doing a firmwide assay of each employee's LinkedIn URL then exercise a training/handout to explain how your employees can customize it themselves. Then encourage anybody to add the URL to their email signatures, pitches, business cards, website bios. Basically whereever your face or proper noun appears your LinkedIn URL should appear besides.

It's easy to modify your custom LinkedIn profile URL – do information technology today.

[Stefanie Marrone helps law firms effectively tell their stories and find their unique voices. Over the last xviii years, she has worked with some of the most prominent and innovative law firms in the world, developing and executing global revenue generating business development and communications strategies, including media relations, branding, and multichannel content marketing and social media campaigns. She is very passionate about using social media for lead generation and brand edifice. She has a diverse range of experience in both Big Constabulary and mid-size/small-law firms. Connect with her on LinkedIn and follow her latest writing on JD Supra as well every bit her blog The Social Media Butterfly .]