How to Customize a LinkedIn URL for Better Visibility
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Summary
A customized LinkedIn profile URL is easier for others to find, enhances your online presence, looks more professional, and is easier to share on resumes and social media as it boosts your credibility
To customize your LinkedIn profile URL, log in to LinkedIn and go to the ‘Edit Profile’ section, where you scroll down to ‘Contact Info’ and click ‘Edit Contact Info’, then click on your profile URL to customize it with a meaningful URL, with letters and numbers, and without symbols or spaces
Use your full name or brand name to make the URL professional and consistent with other social media, making it meaningful, short, and easy to remember
Avoid auto-generated URLs with random characters, keeping it readable and only using relevant words, avoiding abbreviations, nicknames, slang, or extra words
For a company page URL, the admin logs in to LinkedIn and navigates to the company page, clicking ‘Edit Page’ in the admin panel where they type the new URL in the ‘LinkedIn Public URL’ box and saves the changes
