Social media quick links
During a google plus hang out someone asked me my Google Plus account.
A while ago I made the following link : https://frankdoorhof.com/+ which will forward you directly to my google Plus account, somehow a lot of people don’t know how to do this so I thought maybe a little blogtip was in place.
It’s actually very easy to do if you have access to your web server. Just make a new directory called + and in that place a redirect file and that’s it.
<html>
<head>
<title>A web page that points a browser to a different page after 2 seconds</title>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=https://plus.google.com/118026639398463272784/posts”>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”automatic redirection”>
</head>
<body>
If your browser doesn’t automatically go there within a few seconds,
you may want to go to
<a href=”https://plus.google.com/118026639398463272784/posts”>the destination</a>
manually.
</body>
</html>
Rename this as index.html and put it into the directory, and you’re done.
So I’ve done this for twitter, Facebook and google plus as :
www.frankdoorhof.com/+
www.frankdoorhof.com/t
www.frankdoorhof.com/f
But you can use anything you like of course, however this is easy to remember and for people to figure out.
Great Frank! Thanks for this tip.
Also thank you for sharing yesterday the ambiance of your studio-shoot.
Great Idea Frank – you have an extra ‘http://’ in the second, manual, URL at the bottom of your html though – although I think all browsers would support the auto redirect anyway so noone will ever click that link manually
Or you can use the .htaccess file and create a redirect…. just one line, quick and easy. No extra directories or files 🙂
Example: Redirect /+ https://plus.google.com/107370613759841832903
And now http://www.niekfotografie.nl/+ redirects to my G+ profile
wow.. thanks for this advice!
Hello http://www.martinwalter.ch/+ , http://www.martinwalter.ch/t , http://www.martinwalter.ch/fb 🙂
Thanks Frank! I just created my redirect links:
http://www.darinaboycheva.com/g+
http://www.darinaboycheva.com/t
Great Tip… just solved a bunch of problems with links to the various social networks sites!!! EXCELLENT!!!!
Glad you like it
Great idea , I have used this on web pages before. Now it makes even more use to make it easier for others to find each of the social sites or what ever. Much easier then remembering my MM id number