How to Increase Your Google+ Followers

Bloggers and marketers are always aiming to weave magic by placing their brand in front of as many people as possible without having to show up. That is why I like video marketing and blogging because after you have recorded or written it and then uploaded it, your presence whether it is on video or in the written word continues to be read or viewed while you sleep all around this social and intriguing web world.

The online videos educate while you snooze and the blog articles inform while you nap… that is what I call efficiency and leverage!

Social Networks such as Facebook and the fast rising Google+ (which is projected to reach 20 million users by this weekend) provide platforms to leverage your content and spread your brand.

How to Make your Ideas and Content Spread

I added the Facebook social plugin to my blog a few months ago and it created a significant increase to the number of Facebook likes (or fans) for my Facebook ‘page’. In fact the plugin increased it by 1,000% over 4 weeks (read the post here)

Increasing your Facebook likes is great to make your content spread because after they have ‘liked’ your Facebook page, your posts when published to Facebook, will appear in their Facebook updates where they can then click on the link and visit your blog.

Add People to Google+ While you Sleep

The new Google+ social network has a similar feature so when people add you to their circle, your Google+ updates (such as your latest blog post or news with a link) will appear in their Google+ stream and will drive traffic to your blog.

What if you had a simple tool that made it easy for people to add ‘you‘ to their Google+ circles and they didn’t have to actually go to their Google+ account to do that?

Well the Tech gurus have been programming (while you slept) and have created a WordPress Plugin that allows people to add themselves to your Google+ followers and put you in their circles.

It is called the Google+ card by plusdevs.

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How To Install it on Your Blog

The easiest way to install this is to follow these steps

Step 1.  Go to Plugins Section of your WordPress Blog

Step 2. Click on “Add New”

Step 3. In your “Install Plugins” section enter “Google+ Cards” into the search box

Step 4. Click on “Install Now”

Step 5. Click on “Activate Now”

Step 6. Go to your Widgets section of your WordPress blog

Step 7. Drag it to where you want it on your sidebar

Step 8. Edit the Title

Step 9. Go to your Google+ Profile and copy your 21 digit Google+ ID number (it will be part of the URL)

Step 10. Click on “Save” and it should appear on your WordPress Blog

Note: You may notice a difference in the numbers of people that have included you in their circles as counted in the plugin and your own “circles” numbers, but I believe that is a Google+ glitch that will be corrected over time.

The growth of Google+ is something that marketers and bloggers will need to continue to optimize as it will drive traffic to your sites.

In the last 24 hours Google+ has referred 38% as much traffic as my Facebook page after only being on Google+ for 2 weeks.

 

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Milan Tomic

Hi. I’m Designer of Blog Magic. I’m CEO/Founder of ThemeXpose. I’m Creative Art Director, Web Designer, UI/UX Designer, Interaction Designer, Industrial Designer, Web Developer, Business Enthusiast, StartUp Enthusiast, Speaker, Writer and Photographer. Inspired to make things looks better.

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