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6 Great Tips for Using Google+ Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:20 AM PST Are you new to Google+? We all are. Like any new site, it takes some getting used to. You’ll have to learn the ropes in order to fully appreciate what Google+ has to offer. To help you out, here are some useful tips and tricks that will enhance your Google+ experience and make adjusting a little easier. Photos One of the best things about sharing photos on Google+ is the ability to fully edit them. When you’re viewing one of your own pictures, click on “Creative Kit” to open the photo editor. Here you can rotate, crop, sharpen, and resize your photo. You can also adjust levels and add cool effects (similar to Instagram). Even more than that, you can alter and add things to your photos like little beards, vampire eyes, masks, crowns, speech bubbles, face paint, and more. You can add text, too, and turn your picture into an instant meme. Google+ photo editing can be very entertaining. Newsfeed There are lots of things you can do on your Google+ newsfeed to enhance your experience with it. For one thing, scroll down by pressing “j” and scroll up with “k.” If you want to link to a specific post, click on the timestamp of that post to get its permalink. Focusing on a post and hitting “enter” will automatically open the comment box. If you don’t want to receive any more notifications about a post you commented on, you can click “mute this post.” If you suspect someone has posted something against Facebook rules, hit “report abuse.” On the homepage, pressing “q” twice will allow you to add someone to your chat list. Privacy Google+ is rife with privacy options to help you protect yourself and share only with your intended audience. If you find you’ve been added to someone’s Circle and don’t want to be, you can click “block this person.” If you’re curious about exactly what your profile looks like to everyone on the web or to a specific person, there is a “view profile as” button that will show you. When you want to double check who exactly can see a post you’ve shared, the “limited” button will tell you. Posting When you create a post, you can bold something by adding a “*” before and after the selection you want bolded. For italics, put a “_” before and after. For strikethroughs, put “-” before and after. If you want to mention someone specifically, put a “@” or “#” in front of their name. You can hit “disable comments” if you don’t want feedback on your posts. You can also create a post within Gmail by clicking the “+Share” button in the top right-hand corner. You don’t even have to leave Gmail to do it. When you want to share a photo or file that’s on your computer, just drag and drop the file directly into the post box. Bonus Tip Google+ is still developing, and there are often changes and improvements being made. If you see something that you have a suggestion for, hit the “send feedback” button that will always be in the bottom left-hand corner of your Google+ screen. Perhaps you’ll come up with a tip or trick that can make things even better. Ben Sharp is a Google Junkie. Look for his articles for the latest and greatest tips on Google + and other great services. As a prolific freelancer, his key to getting published online is checking his work with the web’s number one grammar checker. For fresh topics he frequently checks into an entrepreneur forum. Related Posts: Marketing your Business with Google Plus Adding Google Search Results To Your Blog Adding a Privacy Policy To Your Blog What 22 Plugins Do I Use? 2 Things You Probably Didn't Know You Can Do With Google Analytics

Marketing your Business with Google Plus Posted: 01 Mar 2012 04:08 AM PST Online marketing for business has a new marketing tool with the creation of the Google+ Page for brands and businesses. While offering the ability to share posts within circles and publicly, they also offer an opportunity for others to click the Google+ button and share posts while telling Google’s search engines what they find relevant to their search. How it Works Every time someone clicks the Google+1 button, the Google search engine records that click and shows in their search engine listings how many +1 clicks the page or site has received. This number of +1 clicks can be very influential to searchers as to which listed site or sites they wish to take the time to look at or read. Prefixing names with a “+” will serve as a link to your profile page for searchers. An important aspect of Google + Your World is that search results from all your circles are included within your result list. The concept for this idea is that your circles reflect interests of similarity to you; therefore, their pages, blogs, and shares are pertinent search results. The same works for them. Your pages, blogs and shares will be included in their search results when they conduct searches. Optimizing for SEO and Traffic In order to optimize your search rankings and traffic to your site, consider each circle as a community and dedicate time to participating within those communities. Begin by becoming a part of “Your Audience’s World” and graduate to “Your Audience’s Trusted World” by sharing good information from a trusted secure site to the public and to your circles. When using Google+ Pages for your business, remember brands, products and services are not people. People interact with people easier and quicker than they interact with brands or businesses. Put a personal face and touch to your shares, commenting on each share you post. Draw your customers to you with personal comments, and +1′s on their search results. Plus one’s clicked on posts and shares translate into search engine optimization for businesses and shows customer satisfaction and recommendations for pages and products. When someone is searching for a specific product or service, if the search result list contains links shared from circles of friends and family, contains links with a high number of +1′s shown and contains traditional search result links, which do you think the searcher is going to look at first? Rational thinking says they will check out the ones their circle of friends and family have shared first and then move on to the ones with the highest number of +1′s. Google Plus pages for your business can benefit you only if you have populated all pages of your sites and blogs with the Google +1 button for viewers to click. If that button isn’t there to click, there is no way for it to get +1 ratings for search optimization, so embed the +1 button on your pages today! Other Google Services Worth Using Further to Google +, there is a complete range of Google products that can help you attract, monitor and monetize your visitors that are also worth considering. Google Adwords is a great paid solution to drive traffic to your website on a cost-per-click model that is worth looking into. If you’re looking to track and monitor your visitors behaviour, be sure to install Google Analytics and finally, if you’ve got plenty of traffic and haven’t worked out how to monetize it yet, be sure to take advantage of Google Adsense, an easy platform to run ads on your site and be paid for each click they receive. Roger Blair is a web marketing expert, specialising in a range of areas from Google Adwords management to SEO, Social Media and Conversion Optimization. He writes for a number of blogs on a range of different online marketing topics and recommends that it form a major part of your overall marketing strategy. Related Posts: Does Google Favor Brands? Adding Google Search Results To Your Blog 6 Great Tips for Using Google+ How to Use SEO to Your Advantage Why Your Business Should Have a Blog

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