10 Great Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages
With regards to social networking, Facebook remains the most popular with over hundreds of millions of users daily. Likewise Google+ pages are also available for social networking and integrating people on the internet.
The Google+ Project offers various features to help people connect with others. First, there are Circles, where you can easily separate people you know into groups so you can share different information with them. The next feature is called Sparks, which is basically an online sharing engine. You can type different keywords and find relevant information in them.
The third feature is Hangouts, where you have the option of chatting Circles of people whom you have added as your contacts. You can also see them on the computer screen. And the last feature of Google+ is Mobile, where you can easily upload your pictures, group chat, share your location, and a lot more using your mobile phone through the platform.
The tips for better Google+ Brand Pages can be listed as follows:
1. Access Your Brand Page: One should access the personal pages from Google+ profile.
2. Adding People to Circles: This involves adding people to one’s own profile. A person needs to add another profile. Likely the other person is also expected to add another profile.
3. Your Brand Page Google+ URL: Google gives you your brand page’s URL on set-up, but if needs to find it again, one can click on “Get started” under your name and avatar on your brand’s home page.
4. Remove Unwanted Tabs: There aren’t many customization options for Google+ pages available but one can remove unwanted tabs.
5. Connect Your Site to Google+: Google offers many easy-to-use code and various G+ buttons so that one can link their site to Google+.
6. Lock Posts to Prevent Sharing: Google+ offers the ability to lock posts within a certain circle. It is important to lock posts because someone can see, use copy and paste the content.
7. Hide Your Follower Count: While you’re building your brand’s presence on Google+, you might want to hide your low follower count. Click the “Change who is visible here” option. One can now hide as many people one has added.
8. Add Useful Links: One can add links on ‘About’ page on Google+. The good thing about this feature is that you have complete freedom. To add links, click on “Edit Profile” when you’re on the “About” page and then click “Recommended Links” to open the edit options.
9. Use Circle: While grouping people by location, interests or other relevant categories, one can broadcast brand messages to relevant circles.
10. Have Fun With Your Scrapbook Photos: The photos that show up at the top of profile page on Google+ are called ‘Scrapbook’ photos.
The main challenge for Google+ is how to get more users to utilize the platform. It is too early to comment upon the popularity of Goolgle+ and whether it can lure the users of Facebook or not. The extra advantage, is that Google+ alerts show up in the corner of Gmail account the status of your connectivity.
Right now, Google+ still has a long way to go before it can really compete with other chat portals. With its excellent features and its integration with Google Search and its wonderful target “circles” Google+ definitely has a lot to offer anyone who wants to start their personal brand communication.
