16. January 2007

Creating custom url for your Orkut Profile

When you compare sites like HI5, Bebo, LinkedIn, Friendster with Orkut the main bit Orkut lacking was a Custom URL for your profile page.

                                  A Custom URL is a small and easy to remember web URL by which one can access a profile page in a site. Basically one cannot remember the long URL provided by Orkut for your profile, so instead its easy to create a custom url which re-directs to the URL provided by Orkut.

Creating a Custom Url in Google Pages (Free):

  • Login to Google Page Creator with Your Google accounts username and password
  • Either create a new site or choose the Create Another site from the drop down box available at the top right corner of the page
  • The next step is about choosing an address which is going to be the URL of your Orkut profile, so enter the profile name you want for your url basically it should be like this http://yourdesiredname.googlepages.com which will re-direct you to the Orkut profile.
  • Say for example you want to use “XXXX” as your profile url then you should enter xxxx in the box provided for choosing an address and click Check Availability to see if the entered name is available or not.
  • Select any layout and a starting look because because it has nothing to do with your url.
  • Making sure you have entered the desired URL and check if its available or not, then click the Create Site Button.
  • Now you have successfully created a site, click the [no title] link in the page name column to make it open.
  • There you go, you are ready to edit the page where Google pages allows you to add title and other bla bla things. But you don’t have to touch them just click the [edit html] link at bottom right corner of the page.
  • Type the following javascript code in any part of the blank page.

<script>
window.location = “your link here”;
</script>

  • Replace your link here with your orkut profile url which will basically look like this http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=8454709067165079466
  • You can find your profile url by login into Orkut and clicking the Profile link in your homepage, then copy the profile link which appears in the address bar.
  • After making changes in the javascript code click the Save Changes button
  • Now click Publish button to publish your webpage. Cool you are ready to launch your custom url.
  • Just navigate to your address bar and type http://xxx.googlepages.com (example) and click ok ……..zooooooooooooo you will be re-directed to your orkut profile page.

Advantages of using this technique:

  • You can easily share your profile URL with your friends, family or post this URL in your weblog or website.
  • Now they no longer need to remember those long URL to add you as friend.

Also you can create a custom url in your domain name (if you own a domain address) by using the .htaccess technique. You can also use re-direction service sites like SnipUrl, Co.nr, shorturls.co.uk and other sites but it depends on own risk whereas by using this technique you have a google domain url.

Please comment if you have any queries and help related to this technique. Your suggestions are most expected.

Thanks Haochi for the JavaScript code.

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32 Comments

1. MyAvatars 0.2 Neil on 16. January 2007 at 1:20 pm

Hey sankar,
Thats a really very good post indeed…..keep up the good work buddy….n thanks for helping me out in creating my page.

Best of luck.

Neil

2. MyAvatars 0.2 raghul on 16. January 2007 at 7:05 pm

this is a good post helping out many who dont know about this facility
keep the good work going by unearthing more such facilities

3. MyAvatars 0.2 ramakrishnan on 17. January 2007 at 7:43 am

by this facility helping others how do not know about this facility

4. MyAvatars 0.2 Sankar Anand on 17. January 2007 at 6:43 pm

Yeah thanks for the appreciation

5. MyAvatars 0.2 Darnell Clayton on 18. January 2007 at 1:39 am

Hey Sankar,

Thanks for the tip! I’ll be posting your tip on my blog (as I am in the process of testing this out with my domain Inside Orkut).

~Darnell

6. MyAvatars 0.2 Prashanth on 19. January 2007 at 10:29 pm

hi…

thanks for your tip….will be doing this at once….
btw if you dont have any issues can i ask you some more q on google…

7. MyAvatars 0.2 Sankar Anand on 19. January 2007 at 10:40 pm

yeah sure but i am not a Google Expert.

8. MyAvatars 0.2 Pramod on 23. January 2007 at 2:51 am

sorry to say so,
but i couldn’t get the redirection to work as you showed.
I guess its my fault and I may have made a mistake but can you please elaborate the process or tutorial in detail..
thanks for a wonderful idea

9. MyAvatars 0.2 Sankar Anand on 23. January 2007 at 8:16 am

Pramod do tell me what is your problem ? i mean in which part of the step you have your problem ?

Those steps described above are simple buddy and i tried my best to elaborate it… you can feel free to ask me for any queries

10. MyAvatars 0.2 Thilak on 28. January 2007 at 12:46 pm

How can I ever miss this one !!

Although, I’m so addicted towards Orkut. I’ll go bookmark this post.

11. MyAvatars 0.2 Abhishek on 30. January 2007 at 9:33 am

I am unable to get the redirection done
the live page shows the blank layout i selected :( the edit html section just has the script u told with the replaced link
do help me :)

12. MyAvatars 0.2 Fred on 05. February 2007 at 8:13 pm

At first I didnt get the redirect working. I had it like this:

window.location = http://fredjeffry.blogspot.com/;

but then I put QUOTES around the link, and now it works:

window.location = “http://fredjeffry.blogspot.com/”;

Maybe thats the issue that Abishek has.

-Fred Jeffry

13. MyAvatars 0.2 Raghav on 16. February 2007 at 5:44 pm

Hi sankar
i have the same problem as abhishek..
Do u think this cud be becoz of the operating system..
i mean i use a mac.

14. MyAvatars 0.2 tanya on 20. May 2007 at 5:22 pm

hi frends

15. MyAvatars 0.2 gerard on 20. May 2007 at 5:30 pm

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16. MyAvatars 0.2 jayanthram on 10. July 2007 at 8:16 pm

hai shankar…
am in a country where orkut is blocked..! i tried doing wat u has said but in vain…
can u help me out..?

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18. MyAvatars 0.2 Sankar Anand on 31. July 2007 at 7:23 pm

@ jayanthram

maybe you should try this link it helps accessing blocked sites like orkut.
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/04/tricks-to-access-orkut-myspace-bebo.html

19. MyAvatars 0.2 ushakiran on 16. August 2007 at 7:17 am

helo shankar
i will try my level best hope it successe r not thanq.

20. MyAvatars 0.2 ushakiran on 16. August 2007 at 7:20 am

[:(]
sorry shankar i can’t what can i do[:((]

21. MyAvatars 0.2 Jill on 25. August 2007 at 11:42 pm

Nice article !

22. MyAvatars 0.2 Gauri Anand on 21. October 2007 at 11:07 am

smone is herrasing me in orkut very badly. my name is ramakrishnan there. n the person who is irratating me is zeba khan page no. 8

23. MyAvatars 0.2 Gauri Anand on 21. October 2007 at 11:09 am

Zeba khan is frm dubai n he even wrote there tht he frm delhi too he even wrotr in his profile tht he is a femail . orkut i feel is really unsafe plz do smthg 4 it
thx regards gauri Anand

24. MyAvatars 0.2 Shanthi on 11. November 2007 at 7:07 pm

Hi,
In the similar way, can any one tell how to play a song when anyone visits my orkut profile..

Thanks in adv…

Do post ur suggestion to my emailid:
shanthi4u2006@yahoo.co.in

25. MyAvatars 0.2 shalini on 19. December 2007 at 8:44 pm

Hi,
The tip is really good.. But I was not successful. After I created the website, when I tried to view on web, I can see nothing other than layout lines. I login to Orkut using my yahoo account and not google account. so, I linked that profile in my website. I sthat the problem? Please suggest.

26. MyAvatars 0.2 mk on 19. December 2007 at 11:54 pm

you should try http://locaworld.com/ for custom Orkut urls.

it creates personalized URLs even for scrapbook, photoalbum and Map

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28. MyAvatars 0.2 Rueben on 28. May 2008 at 2:45 am

dude my page is not directed to my ork pro, well i even need help so that i can play a music file on my profile, once someone enters it.

29. MyAvatars 0.2 gajender on 27. June 2008 at 12:41 pm

please delete the point no 22 & 23 from ur blog and also from the google searcu
thanks
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32. MyAvatars 0.2 rohit on 10. November 2008 at 4:15 pm

hi… i want to know abt html codes by which i can hide link in my orkut profile eg- (”link” click here)… in this link hide bt click here show.

thnx plz suggest me

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