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What you need to know about Google+TRANSCRIPT
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Everything Webmasters Need
To Know About
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I’ll help you discover:
• How to get it
• How to use Google + to market your business and help with relationship building
• How to optimize your Google + profile for the search engines
• Advanced tips & tricks
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How do you create an account for your
business?
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Google has banned unauthorized business profiles for now, instead
recommending you use a “real person who is willing to represent
your organization on Google+ using a real profile as him-or-herself”.
Before creating a Google+ account, you need to be
aware that:
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Step 1: Choose who you think can best represent your company on this social network i.e. CEO, Owner,
Marketing Spokesman.
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Step2: You need a Google account…
Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/Login
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Note: You can use any email address
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Step 3: Now go to https://plus.google.com, click
“Sign In”..
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Step 5: It’ll prompt you to create a Google Profile
Enter the details of the person you
chose here.
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You will be directed to the Welcome page. To complete
your profile..Click here
& then click on the ‘Edit Profile’ button.
OR here.
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Google has made it clear that:
“Once these pages/profiles arrive they will probably operate in a way that’s pretty similar to Facebook Pages, but with some Google SEO benefits. They will be indexed, “followable” and individual updates or posts can be +1′d — much or all of which will be fed back into search results and rankings.”
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These sections indicated appear in your search results so take advantage
of this!
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So optimize your profile!!
1. Title = Google Plus Profile name.2. Description = Introduction field on your
profile page.3. Links = Links field on you profile page4. Unfortunately you can’t change your URL
just yet
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Make sure you select “Anyone on the web” in the ‘Introduction’ section..
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1. Now click on your name.2. Then ‘Privacy’ and you will see..
This is what it will look like in the search results
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Tip: When someone hovers their mouse over your profile image, a small
pop up will appear showing your profile photo, your name & sometimes
a few words about where you work, location &/or school name.
But if wouldn’t you want them to see..
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This when they
hover their
mouse over your
image?
Here’s a simple trick to do this for your profile.
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1. Go to ‘Edit my profile’.2. Click on ‘Employment’ or ‘Education’
section.3. Enter your detailed description in the
first field box (This will be either ‘Employer Name’ or ‘School Name’).
4. Now just hover your mouse over your icon!
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And while you can’t change your permanent Google +
URL, you can shorten it so it is easier to use to promote your Google + account to existing & potential customers by..
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going to http://gplus.to/ to shorten your URL and entering the relevant
information.
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Circles & Streams
Circles help you organize people in groups so you can share content relevant to that
particular circle only. Streams show the content shared by people in different
Circles.
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When adding people you’ll be able to specify a existing circle to put them or
create a new circle.
You can separate people into existing and new customers,
which of your products/services
they’re interested in & so on depending on
your company.
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You can also just select people and drag and drop them in circles at any
time
I.e. When a potential lead becomes a customer, you can move them to the
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Now you’ll want to add some people..
1. Through Google’s Suggestions. On the right hand side, Google gives suggestions
of people you can easily add.
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2. Through Yahoo Mail & Hotmail by going viewing your ‘Circles’ (Add your
mailing list!)
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Now you can see what
people in that circle share
when you click on that
particular circle.
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Tip: If you expand the ‘Share’ box, you can
drag and drop content, photos, links, videos & other users
profiles into it.
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Tip: You can send direct messages to multiple people by using the @ symbol
followed by their name (only they can see your message). Then just type your
message.
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But Circles aren’t just for sorting contacts, you can use them as a bookmarking device!
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For example, I created a ‘social media’ circle. When someone from my normal circle posts a related message or link to an article I want to save for later, I click ‘share’ and share it to my
‘social media’ circle.
By default it will share to the ‘Public’ and all your circles, just click on the ‘x’ icon. Then click ‘+Add more people’ and select a specific circle.
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Now I can view these status updates and articles easily any
time, just by clicking on the ‘Social Media’ stream. This is great for saving tips that
could help your business!
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Hangouts
Let’s up to 10 users video and voice chat with each other
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Start a Hangout
Click ‘Start a Hangout’, then a window will pop
up. Just click ‘Install Plugin’.
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Now just ‘Add circles or people’ you want to hangout
with.
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You can even select YouTube
videos for everyone in your
hangout to watch.
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Hangouts have great potential for businesses..
• Conduct workshops and seminars.
• Communicate exclusive promotions to priority . customers
• Reveal to industry bloggers & experts upcoming products or services.
• Engage in product demonstrations and training with new and potential customers.
• And so on..
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Looking for somewhere to “hangout” on Google +?
Go to http://gphangouts.com/ to find a directory of Public Google+ Hangouts.
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You can also start your own hangout
You can use bookmarket to make sure your hangout automatically appears on gphangouts.com by going
to http://gphangouts.com/bookmarklet.html.
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Sparks
Receive content from around the internet on any topic so you can easily share this
with the circles you choose.
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Just click on ‘Sparks’ then enter the topic you’re
interested in.
Then just click “share” on content you find interesting.
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This allows for targeted marketing opportunities for
businesses
You can suggest information you think is valuable to a certain circle rather than posting it to everyone. For example, I
could have a circle for ‘SEO customers’, ‘Email marketing customers’ and so on. Then if I find something related to email marketing, I can post it only to my email
marketing customers!
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When you click on a photo, you will see this page.
A useful feature is the ability to see the photo while commenting or reviewing comments.
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Add special effects
Click on ‘Actions’, then Edit’ and this screen will appear to the left .
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You can instantly upload photos from your phone.
Add photos from company events and seminars as they happen to help customers
feel more connected to your
business.
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Security Settings
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You can specify which sections of your profile you want to be visible in any way you like, public to the web, specific
circles, extended
circles, or only you. Most of the time you should select ‘Anyone on the web’ so
potential clients can find your
profile.
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You can also specify whether to include
photos on your profile, photo tag approval settings
and whether to display geo settings for newly uploaded photos and albums.
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Google chat security settings
When you go to the stream section on the left hand side, there is a Google chat area. Click the small arrow next to
“Chat”. Then select Circles & you will be able to select the circles who can see you when you’re online and chat with you”.
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The best part is you can test your profile by viewing as another user (Check what people
in different circles see).
Just enter a users name
here
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Now I can see what ‘Siv
Rauv’ can see when if visits my profile.
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You can also change the visibility of your circles.
Just go to ‘Edit Profile’ and click
on any of the people in your circles to the
bottom left of the screen and this box will appear.
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Notifications
Google+ creates notifications when events occur that involve
you, such as when you're tagged in a photo or are added
to a circle.
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The notifications are much more advanced than
Facebook.
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View your notification
s here.
And if you click here..
You’ll find that..
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It let’s you comment on status updates right within the
notifications dropdown. This is great if you don’t
have much time to spend on Google +
everyday.
You can ‘mute’ a post. This means you won’t get
notifications for previous posts
you commented on.
You can scroll through
notifications newer or older than the one
you are viewing.
To make sure your circle will see your post (Each circles contains streams of many
updates so the user may not see your post), you can also notify them of your post.
Notify circles of relevant sales and promotions, blog posts and anything else that will help with
sales and relationship building.
Just click on the circle
and select to ‘Notify about
this post’ box.
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Advanced Tips
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Format the words in your posts
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It will look like
this.
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Change your
stream updates
settings by clicking here.
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Use the Google + shortcuts
You can posts quick
status updates here.
Gives a dropdown with links to take you directly to your profile page, circles page, account settings and privacy.
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Some great Chrome extensions
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Add the Facebook Stream to your Google+ Profile
1. Go to http://crossrider.com/install/519-google-facebook
2. Then click here and follow the prompts.
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After you install it, your Google + homepage will load.
Now click on the
Facebook button
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1. Click on the “Connect with Facebook” button. 2. Enter your login details.3. Click “Allow” so the extension can access your Facebook.
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And now you can see & post to your Facebook in Google!
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Photozoom
Enlarge pictures from your Google+ Stream by just hovering over them.
To get the extension go here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njoglkofocgopmdfjnbifnicbickbola#
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Once you install the extension, the page below will open
You can click on “Settings’
and change the settings to your
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Then just hover over an image to see a larger view of it.
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Get Helper for Google+
By going to: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hehfpbphnjppmganambkgdnkfliaipgd
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What does it do? See below:
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To keep up to date with the latest news and tips on Google + & other social media sites,
visit http://www.socialmotus.com/bl
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