How to Customize Your LinkedIn URL

{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "HowTo", "name": "How to Customize Your LinkedIn URL", "description": "Make your LinkedIn profile easier to share and more professional by customizing your URL. Follow these quick steps to update your public profile link.", "keyword": ["LinkedIn", "Customize"], "step": [ { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Understand LinkedIn’s default URL format", "text": "LinkedIn generates profile URLs by appending your name with a unique alphanumeric string, but it's clunky and unmemorable, e.g. 'john-smith-a1b2c34'." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Click the Me icon", "text": "In the top-right corner of your LinkedIn navigation bar, click the Me icon." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Select View Profile", "text": "Choose View Profile from the dropdown to open your LinkedIn profile page." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Click the Pencil icon next to Public profile & URL", "text": "In the right-hand panel, click the pencil icon where it says Public profile & URL." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Edit your profile URL", "text": "Click inside the text field containing your profile URL to customize it." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Return to the homepage", "text": "When finished customizing, click the Home icon to return to your LinkedIn homepage." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "View your profile again", "text": "Click your Me icon once more, then select View Profile from the dropdown." }, { "@type": "HowToStep", "name": "Confirm your new custom URL", "text": "Your new custom LinkedIn profile URL will now display in the browser’s address bar, ready to be shared in resumes, emails, or elsewhere." } ] }