Custom URL questions

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HeyJayBay

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So my username on YouTube is heyjaybay93 because that's my email I used. So on here it says my channel is heyjaybay93. Howevvvvver, when you go to my channel it says my name is Just Jessica, because that's the name I gave my google + account. So when I am eligible for my custom URL, will it give me a url for heyjaybay? I really don't want to be stuck with a url that isn't the same as my channel name.
Thank you in advance-JJ
 
First, Google "Google My Business" and sign in (it already comes with your Google account). Create a new brand page, and it will automatically create a Google Plus Page (Google Plus is undergoing an overhaul by the way). Name the page Just Jessica.

After you create it, it is highly recommended you start to register a blog domain (justjessica.com or whatever). Wordpress is good for that, and it costs 26 bucks per year to keep that domain url. After setting up your domain url, I want you to sign in to Google Webmasters and create a new property. Input the property your url and it will tell you to select an option to verify it. Select HTML tag, and copy and paste the text string into your newly-set up blog. Go to your wordpress blog site, click on the link "Testimonials" and it will open up the Admin settings for your site. Go to settings, click on tools, and you will see a Google Webmaster verification box, paste that tag in, click save to update the site. Go back to Google Webmasters and click verify. That way Google knows you own the site. Now go back to your Google Business page and update the link to your website.[DOUBLEPOST=1453409195,1453408866][/DOUBLEPOST]After the link gets put onto your Google Plus page, add your social media links and an introduction. There will be a link near your website url in one of the boxes that will say "verify". Click that and verify, and Google will know that is page is the official representative of that site. There should be a check mark appearing. After that, update your wallpaper.

Now here is the risky business: Go to the YouTube homepage and click on your avatar, there will be a little gear icon near in the little box near that "creator studio button". Click that and go to advanced settings in your channel (This is not the video manager I am referring to.) You will see a page that says "transfer YouTube to another Google Plus Page". Click that and you will see an option to transfer your YouTube channel to that newly created Google Plus page. Click okay, and then Google will give you a warning comments made prior to 2013 will be deleted.
 
Just click okay, and your channel will be connected to that newly created Google plus page. No subscribers are lost. After you have created it, go to the Google Plus page, and Google will ask you to get a custom url. It should say JustJessica, but Google will ask you to input some letters and numbers to make sure "this is the official page". Just type in Official or whatever (don't use random numbers) and there will be a newly created URL YouTube.com/+justjessicaofficial .

Yes, this is complicated. Another simpler way is you have to gain 500 subscribers for a custom URL.[DOUBLEPOST=1453409527,1453409470][/DOUBLEPOST]
Just Jessica said:
Thanks, that's a little more work than I was wanting. But thanks for the info.
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You're welcome. But I highly advice you to get a domain for future-proof purposes.
 
PatrickLongChen said:
Just click okay, and your channel will be connected to that newly created Google plus page. No subscribers are lost. After you have created it, go to the Google Plus page, and Google will ask you to get a custom url. It should say JustJessica, but Google will ask you to input some letters and numbers to make sure "this is the official page". Just type in Official or whatever (don't use random numbers) and there will be a newly created URL YouTube.com/+justjessicaofficial .

Yes, this is complicated. Another simpler way is you have to gain 500 subscribers for a custom URL.[DOUBLEPOST=1453409527,1453409470][/DOUBLEPOST]
You're welcome. But I highly advice you to get a domain for future-proof purposes.
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I thought it was 100 subscribers? Unless they just changed it. I just got my custom url for my other channel and I only had 182 subscribers.
 
When you're eligible for your custom url, you'll get to pick it from the ones that are available (similar to signing up for a Twitter account or similar). You can pick anything as long as it's not already taken :)
 
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