Certain social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, allow users to use “vanity URLs” that create a direct link to the user’s profile. For ...

A vanity URL is a Web address that contains the name of a user or product. On Facebook, for example, John Smith's vanity URL could be facebook.com/johnsmith. Your ...

Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday, Facebook's more than 200 million users will be able to personalize the URLs for their profiles, the company announced Tuesday. By rolling out so-called ...

When you're creating a URL, context is everything. The URL you create for a personal blog would be different from your business website's URL. When you use a subdomain to create a custom vanity URL, ...

The ability of Google to reclaim any custom name precedes this clause, and it makes sense for the Google+ Team to highlight that power at the outset of the custom URL project. But offering a free hit ...

Because www.wm.edu/offices/communityvalues/sarp/studenthandbook/ won't fit on a postcard. Good information architecture does not necessarily translate to simple URLs ...

Here's the newest reason for companies in social media not to make money: because their competitors don't, so they shouldn't either. In my view, they should all charge, but I get Facebook's point, to ...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do it. I wasn't going to stay up past midnight to try to grab a vanity URL on Facebook. After all, I have a 2-year-old who would certainly be waking me up bright ...

Facebook watchdog AllFacebook is reporting that the company is asking select users if they would be willing to pay for vanity URLs, such as "http://www.facebook.com ...

If an award were presented for the most significant event of 2008 in local search, Google's AdWords ban of vanity URLs would win hands down. The policy change took effect April 1 and specifies that ...

If you're an avid user of the Google social network called Google+ you will be excited to hear that starting this week everyone will have access to customized vanity URLs. The idea is that by signing ...