How To Get Your Own Vanity Google+ URL

January 5, 2012

How To Get Your Own Vanity Google+ URL
If you’re using Google+ you are probably wondering why you can not customize your vanity url like Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. Google uses a long string of numbers for each user (e.g. 113864065458009379418). The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since many Google Accounts are linked [...]
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Google+ Brand Pages

November 7, 2011

Google+ Brand Pages
Finally!  Something a lot of people have been waiting for… the equivalent of Facebook fan pages is Google+ brand pages. When the search giant first launched Google+, brands immediately jumped on the opportunity to gain additional exposure. Google soon asked brands to stop creating Google+ profiles. It quickly became a controversy that forced the company to accelerate its plans for business pages. Some reasons for businesses to [...]
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Setting Up Google+

August 15, 2011

Setting Up Google+
I got an invite from a friend of mine for Google+ and join right away.  I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and if was going to be anything like Google Wave. I filled everything out and added all my friends to appropriate circles.  Making sure to put people in the right circles in the beginning so I didn’t have the same [...]
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