Your public profile
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Your public profile is a page at /u/ followed by your username. It shows who you are as a
curator: a headline, topics, links and your public collections. Other readers can follow you from it.
Before you start
Your profile fills up as you publish collections. With no public collection the page says No public collections yet..
Steps
- Open Settings and choose Curator profile.
- Under Visibility you see your Handle. View public page opens the page as visitors see it.
- Turn Public profile on or off. It is on by default and saves at once. Off hides your page.
- Write a Headline: one line under your name, up to 120 characters.
- Add Topics: up to 8, press Enter after each one.
- Add Links: up to 5, each with a label and a full address that starts with https://.
- Press Save profile.
Search engines
Show in search engines lets Google and Bing list your page and public collections. It needs a public profile with enough public items. The line under the switch tells you the state: shown, hidden, not yet because more items are needed, or not yet because new accounts wait a few days.
Turn your profile on or off
Public profile decides whether anyone can open your page. It is on for every new account. When you turn it off, your page shows Profile not found to visitors, search engines stop listing it, and other readers can no longer find or follow you from it. Your collections and settings stay as they are. Turn the switch on again and the page comes back. While it is off, a note on the Curator profile page reminds you.
What visitors see
The page shows your name, headline, topics and links, a line with followers, public collections and public items, your collections with their sizes, and recently added items. If you turned on Ask My Library, a card invites visitors to ask a question. A Report link lets visitors report a page.
An unknown or hidden profile shows Profile not found.