You all must be aware that, social networking sites (like Orkut) does not provide a short profile URL which you can memorize easily. And hence, you always need to copy-paste your profile URL whenever a friend asks you for it. To solve this problem, today I am writing a short guide to customize URL of your social networking profiles.
Well there are 2 easy ways to do that:
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The first is, make use of some services that provide a facility to shorten your URL
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Alternatively, you can register a free domain (some of them listed here) and divert them to your actual profile pages.
A step by step guide, to use both the procedure are mentioned below:
Procedure 1:
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p align=”justify”>This is the simplest way of customizing social profile URL and is advisable too..
For Orkut users: locaworld.com. Just visit this site, enter your Orkut profile or community link and your desired id.
( Example of customized links that I created are- djain.locaworld.com and dw.locaworld.com )
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p align=”justify”>For Facebook users: faceto.us. Same step is to be followed as done in the previous case.
( Example: faceto.us/djain )
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p align=”justify”>As mentioned, above procedure is the simplest possible way and can be done even by a rookie 🙂 But the only disadvantage is that, I am unable to find any such service for other social networks like Myspace and Hi5 🙁
If you do know any such site, please let us know.
Procedure 2:
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p align=”justify”>Register a domain, at some free domain providers (Preferred one is CO.CC) and divert it to your actual profile pages.
I’ve done that by by creating my own domain- djain.co.cc and diverted it to my Orkut home page 🙂
By using the second method, your profile links can be shortened further and can also be used for other networking sites like Myspace & Hi5. The only point in using this method is, it is bit clumsy and takes few hours to get the whole thing done 🙁
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p align=”justify”>This is the best effort I could give on this post.
If you stuck anywhere please let us know using comment form.
Links: Locaworld | Faceto | Free domain registration
2 Comments
Hey, why forget tinyurl, they also provide custom alias too…. http://tinyurl.com/
A good article…
Stumbled… 🙂
@Pavan Kumar –
Yep.. Not only tinyurl.. there any ‘killos’ of such service.
But I wanted to be specific to services dedicated for social networks 🙂