{"id":16311,"date":"2013-05-08T18:42:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:29:56","slug":"17-enormous-advantages-of-google-training-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/17-enormous-advantages-of-google-training-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"17 enormous advantages of Google+ (training May 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re resisting Google+ because you don’t have time, you don’t have patience to learn it, or you don’t think you need it, this should change your mind: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Google+ gives you a huge advantage over your competitors when it comes to ranking higher on the Google Search results. All things being equal, a competitor who’s active on Google+ when you are not, will most likely rank higher.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Google+ is fast becoming the backbone of Google,<\/strong> and participation there is more important than your activities on any other Google platform.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Google’s \u201c+1\u201d is similar to Facebook’s “Share.” The more +1\u2019s your pages and posts, the better you look in Google’s eyes.<\/strong> All those “votes” let Google know that people are reading and passing along what you’re sharing.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Google+ integrates seamlessly with other Go0gle services such as Gmail, Search, Documents<\/strong> and YouTube<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. You can write about your business<\/strong> in the About section of your Google+ profile. Explain what it’s about, what you sell, why you’re the go-to expert, and how you help customers. Google will use this as your page\u2019s meta description<\/strong> when it shows up in the search results.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. The “Circles” way of segmenting friends isn’t as cumbersome as it is in Facebook. And this makes it far easier to target a specific market<\/strong> with your message and content.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Google+ makes it easier to share content with the right people.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Google protects your privacy<\/strong> far better than Facebook does. Just look at the number of news stories Facebook has generated because of privacy problems.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Google always asks for customer feedback<\/strong>. Facebook tells you what you must do. And if you don’t like it, tough.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Many of your clients and customers, and others who might buy what you sell,<\/strong> are already on Google+.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Google’s activity stream is perfect for sharing rich media content<\/strong> such as photos, video and audio.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Hangouts, the video calling\/conferencing feature, allows a group of users to meet across multiple screens<\/strong>. And you can now share desktops!\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. The web album provider Picasa can also be connected<\/strong> to Google+.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. On your Google+ profile, you can link to your other social media profiles on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, thus giving those profiles more “authority” from Google.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. When you comment on content other people have shared on Google+, you promote your expertise<\/strong> and encourage more people to add you to their circles, thus widening your audience<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Your employees can create their own Google+ profiles and post links to your website, share your blog posts and +1 your content.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Google’s Authorship means you can get your picture to show up in Search results<\/strong>. This makes your content more prominent and more credible and encourages people to click on YOUR link<\/strong> rather than someone else’s.\u00a0Even if you\u2019re not active in Google+, Google Authorship will still work, but you do have to set up your profile anyway. So why not become active on Google+ and reap all the rest of these benefits?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Bonus Reason:<\/strong> Google+ currently has 500 million users!<\/strong> Can all those people be wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Convinced? Join me tomorrow, May 9, when social media strategist BL Ochman explains the nuances of Google+ and helps get you on the road to more exposure and better search ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Register for the Google+ webinar training here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you’re resisting Google+ because you don’t have time, you don’t have patience to learn it, or you don’t think you need it, this should change your mind:  Bonus Reason: Google+ currently has 500 million users! Can all those people be wrong? Convinced? Join me tomorrow, May 9, when social media strategist BL Ochman explains\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":5,"wds_primary_category":638,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[67,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-16311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-google","8":"tag-seo","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43115,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions\/43115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}