Sorry if this topic is already formed – I didn’t see one though.

Since Google+ pages are difficult to get followers I thought it would be great to create a “follow” exchange for business pages. Follow the business pages from your personal page and then share your business page as well! Together we can help create connections!

Here is my Google+ business page: https://plus.google.com/b/103466608100621418309/

Here is my individual page if you would like to connect there as well: https://plus.google.com/114549049022387784117

Share your business page here to grow your circle!

@shannontaylor22 Hi Shannon

I don’t think link exchanges are a very good way of boosting your Google+ page or any social networking page for that matter.

You mention it is difficult to get followers. What have you done thus far to attract followers to your page?

Also, I notice that you have just 3 posts on your page – do you think this is enough to entice people to follow you?

Russell

Getting followers for our business pages have been a bit of a challenge. What is working for you guys?

Heres a few: https://plus.google.com/b/113996200939163804347/https://plus.google.com/114103478414575546271/posts

Here’s my business page: - http://gplus.to/sociovant – and my personal page: - http://gplus.to/jamesalonso - Thanks!

@juliacasey you have some great tips for Google+, I know i have been struggling to get new followers for my business page gplus.is/realgyenergyservices.
Thank you for your advice

@amyhallbiz

I did actually get my first sale from a huge company that I had added on Google Plus.  I can’t make a definitive correlation, but we had never had any quote request or lead from this company prior to me setting up the page and adding them about a week ago. It was a very nice, large sale, was very pleased.

The thing about Google Plus is that the value is much further reaching than just having followers read your posts.  The more +1s you get, the more trust your site shows.  Also, just recently my +1 number has started to show in all my ads on AdWords.  This is major as none of my competitors use Google Plus.  So on the ads, all three of us are listed in the ad block, but my site says +1′d by xxx amount of people.  This has increased my CTR in a huge way.  I believe searchers are influenced by this to click my site instead of my competitors.

My Google Plus posts now show up in the SERPs too, on regular Google.  If someone who has added me is signed in to Google Plus, and they do a Google search for any item I sell, my site comes up +1.  This is hugely valuable.

More than anything it has boosted my organic rankings, and increased my click through rate indirectly through all these other aspects.  Not much actually happens via direct conversations on Google Plus.

@amyhallbiz

It is a little scary everything Google is doing now.  Kind of makes me think of a sci fi movie from the 50s with some big corporation owning the world.

I don’t know if you’ve been following, but Facebook has just partnered with Bing in yet another attempt to become the Google Killer.  Bing is going to include Facebook in their search results (much much more complicated than that simple statement).  So it looks like everyone predicting that we need to jump on social marketing is exactly right.

You can read more about this new Bing/Facebook search collaboration here

@shannontaylor22  Do what @juliacasey did. She nailed it.

Russell

@russellallert

Thanks for the read. 

As far as 100 million users, and “fastest growing network” I have to roll my eyes. Wasn’t a G+ account forced on just about everyone who had a gmail, google docs or google analytics account? 

Besides, everything’s faster these days. Does anyone really think Pinterest would have caught on as fast even two years ago? 

Everything gets picked up faster these days because we are all connected.

A big part of me wishes that Google would go back to being the world’s greatest search engine and leave social to someone else…rather than mucking up their search results with G+ interference.

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I haven’t been using G+ as much as I should, I seem to be hit and miss.

My personal page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102982150411002413147

My business page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/117129024986984199834

@emillewolstenholme  On your page, in the profile area, edit your profile and add your site to the links area at the bottom of the profile page. The other thing you need to do is to put the red G+ button on your website. This will cross link and give you the best SEO juice. Google really encourages/pushes adding the G+ button to your site.

@russellallert While there may not be the networking opportunities on G+ that there are on Facebook … G+ is much superior to Facebook to help with ones website search engine rankings. It’s not that the G+ will bring your site more traffic, it’s the point that being on G+ and playing the G+ game will raise your P/R rank and your Alexa rankings, and in the long run more people will see your website and you’ll probably get more leads.

IMHO if you’re not on an industry specific social media network you’re probably wasting your time on social media. No matter how much time I spend and how hard I try on Facebook I haven’t gotten any leads from Facebook. But my business exploded when I added SME and MailChimp experts into my social media daily duties. Industry specific social media sites are where the gold is at. That is why LinkedIn and Facebook groups work well … because the members are interested in the topic. I get leads from groups in LinkedIn, not from my LinkedIn profile. – It’s all about letting people know about you and helping them solve their problems and hopefully they like what you’ve done and call you to help them more.

Just got this email/blog post from Local Visibility System regarding the announcement of the Google Places-Plus merger and the mass chaos this is going to cause poor little business owners, most whom have not yet even claimed their Google Places page and don’t have a clue what a 1+ is. Yall simply MUST read this! Made me quiver and shiver and shake and giggle all at once.

http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2012/05/30/my-cliffsnotes-on-the-google-places-plus-merger/

All I can say is that this surely will give social marketing managers and local marketing consultants something to do for a while. But how do they explain what’s happening to their clients’ Places Page rankings and all the money spent on what now looks like another defunct Google venture?

@susanking @amyhallbiz @emillewolstenholme @lorithueme @russellallert @rich-brooks @shannontaylor22 @juliacasey @jamesalonso @deairby @danielmckean @robpeck @mgoes @shannontaylor22 @nicolewerner

I got a weird thing when i tried to follow some of you… you have reached the maximum number of people that you can be in your circles at this time… What does that mean… ? Anyone know? Wanted to connect to few of you, but could not.

@shannontaylor22  and @mgoes – I have added follows to your pages. Are link exchanges the ideal way? No, and that’s okay with me; you asked for help here’s mine.If you would like to reciprocate: https://plus.google.com/b/101927332964952920083/

To success!

Reg