GooglePlus Expertise

Every day, I hop on a global magic carpet and attempt to interact with millions of people. The ride has allowed me to grow my Google+ following. 

This massive list of Google+ tips will help you rock the second most active social media platform. It will also help you take advantage of Author Rank.

Google+ is poised for major growth with 3 out of 4 top 100 brands on the network. With 85% adoption, YouTube is a hit among marketers. Together, Google+ and YouTube make Google a search and social media powerhouse.

Focusing solely on Author Rank may blind us to tracking Google's progress and building what is truly important. Authority.

This latest confession from Facebook does beg the question: What kind of unethical behaviour will it take for Facebook users to rebel?

Google has unveiled a new tool for marketers and agencies called Think Insights. Think Insights is a massive resource of information for marketers, providing the "latest research in digital marketing" as well as "industry-leading case studies and Google’s latest research, strategic perspectives, interviews with innovators and experts and more."

You want to connect, and you need to do it virtually. So you need a connection tool that’s easy, fast, user-friendly and highly accessible. Google Hangouts are about to become one of the best tools in your online content marketing toolbox.

Assuming the company gains control of such top-level domains as .search, .app, .blog, and .cloud, it doesn't seems to want to restrict their use to its own products. Read this article by Lance Whitney on CNET News.

Google+ posts you share with limited circles will not be showing in Google's non-personalised search results. What about the link value?

The new Google+ profile cover photo is gigantic, and challenges designers & marketers to tell their story visually. I built a style guide to help.

And a couple of surprises towards the end...

The whole look is much nicer and clearer, with each category of content in its own box. The editing is also easier, each box has it's own Edit button.  And Reviews are now visible in a tab so this is a welcome change for the Google+ Local pages.

If you're like me and you have your finger on Google’s pulse on a daily basis, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Author Rank.

Everyone might be focused on the services Google is scrapping as part of its spring cleaning, but it looks like there's at least one new (or rather, renewed) service on the way. Android Police...

resize and retouch your favourite Social Media images (Facebook, twitter, google +,...)

Google’s algorithm that informs how search results rank constantly evolves. However, one element is clearly important: how your business fares on Google+.

In less time that it takes to eat a meal (well, kind of!) you will have the context of Google Plus...

We don't have to be professional photographers to brighten our circles: Sometimes a little editing will make all the difference to an image.

No need for an expensive Adobe Photoshop, either.

The new new new new News Feed is Facebook's latest stab at rendering your swarming, swirling online life easier to digest. According to Facebook. Yes, it's cleaner than a German toilet.

There are many ways "Sign in with Google" is much different than Facebook Connect but for the purpose of this article we will only discuss how data is collected and used.

Some people were panicking because they saw private photos or videos displayed but those are only visible to yourself and those they have been shared with.

Today's huge update to profile design is a lot to take in. Along with the new cover photos and "cards" layout for profile information, there are also some smaller but important changes that we've noticed here at GPD.