Streamline Your LinkedIn Profile URL

Have you ever wondered how to get rid of these numbers and random letters at the end of your LinkedIn URL? Today’s lesson will help you do that. Why streamline your profile URL? So you can put it on your business cards, or include it in your email signature. And most importantly because it looks more professional. As you can see below this person has numbers and letters after her name in the URL.

Let’s look at how to get rid of those. To do so you want to go to your profile page. And there you will see on the right, “Edit public profile & URL”. That’s where you want to click.

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At the top right of the next page, you’ll see “Edit your custom URL. By selecting the pencil in this section, this field and profile URL becomes editable.

What I recommend you do is enter your cursor into the box with your name and eliminate all of the numbers, letters, hyphens, or special characters at the end of the URL. Now you start playing the LinkedIn lottery game to find a URL that uses primarily your name, or your first initial and last name, as in this case, your full first name and last name, your full first name, and middle initial and last name, and you get the idea. You might need to try a few different approaches before you find one that isn’t taken. You’re looking for an available URL that no one else is using.

And speaking of URLs, I often get the question, should I put keywords in my URL? And the answer on LinkedIn is no. Google likes to see keywords in the URL but in this case, your name and being found as a real person are more important than your keywords. Once you’ve won the lottery and found a combination that’s available and that isn’t too long (this isn’t intended to be a novel) then you should save your selection. Try reloading the page and you’ll see your new URL all shiny and new.

That’s it for today’s LinkedIn minute. If you would like to see a video tutorial on how to do this step-by-step as well as dozens of other LinkedIn quick tips, please go to https://try.bizhack.com/liminutes. Be sure to subscribe to be notified whenever I add a new LinkedIn minute.

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Sheryl Cattell, is the course creator and lead instructor for the LinkedIn Business Edge™, presented by BizHack Academy, and author of Turning Adversity into Purpose. Cattell is also a Master Certified Life Coach and founder of Allmaya, LLC, a coaching service dedicated to helping aspiring high achievers realize and attain their life’s purpose.