One of the most important reasons to set up a vanity URL for your LinkedIn page is so that you can easily share the address with others.  A “vanity” URL is a clean address which is both easy to include and mention to others.  It is fairly quick and easy and definitely worth the few minutes!

To get your own vanity URL on LinkedIn:

Go to your profile page and scroll to the bottom, you will see ‘Public Profile’

If this is not your name, but a series of letters and numbers, you can change this to a ‘clean’ URL address.  To do this you:

• Go to Profile
• Edit Profile
• click ‘edit’ next to the public profile link

• click ‘customize your public profile URL’ at bottom of right hand sidebar

You may be able to use your own name if you are lucky – if not, choose something that is a professional variation (ie: not bubblegumguy – try numbers using your middle name or initial)

The sooner you do this, the more likely it will be that you will be able to claim your own name!

Note: Your custom URL must contain 5 – 30 alphanumeric characters.
Please do not use spaces, symbols, or special characters.

Save and you are done – congratulations!

And please be sure to send me an invitation to link – and mention if this tutorial was helpful!