Vanity URLs have been long misunderstood, for good reason. A vanity URL is an unique web address that is branded for marketing purposes. Vanity URLs are a type of custom URL that exists to help users ...

Certain social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, allow users to use “vanity URLs” that create a direct link to the user’s profile. For ...

What’s in a name? Everything. One of the most important branding assets your business can own in today’s digital age are your vanity URLs. Through personalized vanity URLs, you can establish your ...

A vanity URL is a Web address that contains the name of a user or product. On Facebook, for example, John Smith's vanity URL could be facebook.com/johnsmith. Your ...

Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook's more than 200 million users will be able to personalize the URLs for their profiles, the company announced Tuesday. By rolling out so-called ...

Because www.wm.edu/offices/communityvalues/sarp/studenthandbook/ won't fit on a postcard. Good information architecture does not necessarily translate to simple URLs ...

The ability of Google to reclaim any custom name precedes this clause, and it makes sense for the Google+ Team to highlight that power at the outset of the custom URL project. But offering a free hit ...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to stay up past midnight to try to grab a vanity URL on Facebook. After all, I have a 2-year-old who would certainly be waking me up bright ...

Here's the newest reason for companies in social media not to make money: because their competitors don't, so they shouldn't either. In my view, they should all charge, but I get Facebook's point, to ...

A few weeks ago, the Google+ team punked The Oatmeal by redirecting its Google+ profile URL to a slightly more interesting (and profanity-laden) URL. That, it turns out, what just a test for today’s ...

As promised, Twitter has opened up for verified users vanity URLs for upcoming profiles on its Vine short video service . To reserve your URL, you’ll need to head to the Vine website and login.

If you're an avid user of the Google social network called Google+ you will be excited to hear that starting this week everyone will have access to customized vanity URLs. The idea is that by signing ...