{"id":828,"date":"2011-11-09T01:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=828"},"modified":"2011-11-09T01:55:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:55:22","slug":"how-to-get-a-nice-short-google-plus-profile-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2011\/how-to-get-a-nice-short-google-plus-profile-link\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a nice, short Google Plus profile link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing Twitter and a lot of other social sites have that Google+ lacks is a nice, short url to give to people.  I can say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nice to meet you, I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iamjason\">twitter.com\/iamjason<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And there I am.  That&#8217;s a lot easier than saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why hello there, would you like to follow me at <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101453275162405736930\/posts\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101453275162405736930\/posts<\/a>?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>After the 6th digit or so people wander off.  Just imagine trying to spell it out during a candlelit dinner on your first date with someone.  Ruins the mood.<\/p>\n<p>I could use a redirect service, like gplus.to, for a vanity url, but then they get to see who&#8217;s going to my profile and it&#8217;s sort of up to them if it keeps working.<\/p>\n<p>So now I just tell everyone to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonmorrison.net\/+\">jasonmorrison.net\/+<\/a>.  It&#8217;s easy to set up, if you have your own domain.  Here&#8217;s how to do it if your web server is running Apache, which is pretty common:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>  FTP to your server, go to the root directory for your site, and open or create an .htaccess file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>  Put this in your .htaccess file:<\/p>\n<p><code>Redirect permanent \/+ https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/(your profile id)\/posts<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This will create a 301 (permanent) redirect to your profile, which also tells search engines that you mean business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong>  Order a new box of business cards, with your spiffy new Google+ profile link.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing Twitter and a lot of other social sites have that Google+ lacks is a nice, short url to give to people. I can say: &#8220;Nice to meet you, I&#8217;m at twitter.com\/iamjason.&#8221; And there I am. That&#8217;s a lot easier than saying: &#8220;Why hello there, would you like to follow me at https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101453275162405736930\/posts?&#8221; After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[714,710,644,195,269,713],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apache","tag-google-plus","tag-redirects","tag-social-networking","tag-twitter","tag-vanity-url"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}