GooglePlus Expertise

Google+ is Google. Just as the social functionality of Facebook is Facebook.

So, not happy with Google’s forcing of Google+ down our throats?

You better get used to it if you want to be a Google user. To the best of my knowledge, you’re still not required to interact with Google+ the social destination (plus.google.com) to use Gmail, YouTube, search, or other sites.

Google isn’t forcing you to share a photo with your circles (although they’re certainly encouraging it). And don’t forget, you had a Google profile long before Google+ came about.

I’m finding myself using Google+ more and more. I recently decided that the long game Google is playing is absolutely brilliant. They are being understated about it but doing exactly what business strategists talk about when they describe the long game as the one to play.

This is a tutorial on how to produce professional Hangouts on air http://travel.hombrelobo.com

New Google+ Users: Google+ Safety Center
These resources are here for teens, parents, and teachers.

. Teens safety guide > goo.gl/KZMgc
. Parent 's guide…

Google’s social layer, Google+, was busy unwrapping presents for it’s users in late December, but the one gift that promises most to “keep on giving” is Google+ Communities.

The Google Drive Hangout App is NOT for Presentations
Discover the proper way to use the Hangout App for Google Drive

Using Google Drive Documents inside…

5 big reasons why it should be a prominent part, if not a primary part, of your social media marketing and content strategy.

3 Reasons to Dust Off Your Google Plus Business Page
In my latest post for +SteamFeed, I look at 3 Google+ Business Page goodies rolling out soon that…

If not now, when? Why Facebook's zenith may have already passed.

Search for your passions, now also in Communities: There are two way to do that.

2013 should be the year you let your webcam do the walking..........
You've heard about the free mini TV station in the middle of a social network that allows you to broadcast to your customers.

You've been meaning to host a +Google+  Hangout to develop a closer relationship with your audience.  What are you waiting for?  

Here are 7 ways your business can use Hangouts On Air.

Newcomers to Google+ have been blocking strangers who add them to circles just because they don't understand the principle of Circles.  Blocking in this case is quite unnecessary:

On Google+ anyone can add anyone in their circles and start following the posts.

Those who follow you on the Plus don't see anything you post to your circles, only your Public posts or the posts to Extended circles in some cases.

Circloscope is the Microscope for your Google+ Circles!

Linda Sherman offers an updated overview of why you should be active on GooglePlus. Select big brands and small business SMB benefitting from early adoption here.

Stop complaining about Google+ integration; we've known this day would come since November 2011.

Consultant Linda Sherman says you should definitely be on Google Plus. Do you ever get the impression no one is on Google Plus? That it’s utterly devoid of the vast audience that makes Facebook so powerful?

Five Fab People to Follow on Google+ by Google+ lover Peg Fitzpatrick.

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

From the very beginning, Google has said the point of Google+ is to add a "social layer" to all of its existing products.

I had lunch back in March with Adam Torkildson, one of the top SEO consultants in Utah and one of the best in the country.

He said something to me that blew me away. “Google is in the process of making the SEO industry obsolete, SEO will be dead in 2 years.”

+Plusses. is a hosted blogging platform that does all the work for you. 

My Google+ posts in a blog form:

Change your own Google+ ID to the URL and get yours!
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Several factors determine how well Google+ local page listings rank. However, some ways of ranking hold more priority than others. To make a listing as visible

In its relatively brief history, Google+ has rolled out more new features faster than any other social network. Many are small changes; some are game changing (one word: Hangouts). 

Call it "the worm strategy."

Google+ in 2012                                                 (expand the post)
This is just the beginning

Video: Best of Google+ 2012
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