{"id":2032,"date":"2012-10-17T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2012-10-17T06:41:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:41:28","slug":"google-plus-seo-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/google-plus-seo-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus One This: How Google Plus SEO Benefits You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine a world where you didn't have to use a brand new program for every single aspect of your business's web presence<\/a>. Wouldn't that be a dream!<\/p>\n

Well, Google is giving those of us who want to maximize our online brand identity<\/a> a little extra help. Sure, the other major search engines have similar programs, but none as in-depth as Google.<\/p>\n

What am I talking about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google+<\/a>, Google Places, Google Authorship, and the rest of those Google configurations<\/p>\n

What does this have to do with SEO<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the rising popularity of other search engines (here's looking at you and your major ad campaigns, Bing<\/a>), Google continues to hold well over half of the entire planet's search traffic. Try to imagine that. Conceptualize just what that means. It's pretty mind boggling, if you ask me.<\/p>\n

Now, Google isn't just a search engine.<\/strong> You may have noticed that if you have Gmail<\/a> as your email provider. There are thousands of apps and different ways of integrating these useful programming services to your benefit.<\/p>\n

Well, Google the Search Engine<\/a>'s often discounted search engine, Google+, offers a host of perks to business owners<\/a>. Of course, the profile allows you to connect with potential customers or clients like other social media services.<\/p>\n

Google+ gives you room to create a customized profile with useful company history, links, and images. But it also lets you tie in a Google places account, which sends local search traffic right your way.<\/p>\n

Google+ can also be integrated into your website to allow your readers to link up with you or your company on your site without even leaving the page.<\/p>\n

We've seen integration like this on the other major social media sites, but they are not mathematically tied into a major search engine. Remember when we talked about Google Authorship<\/a> in the past? Well, connecting your website and Google+ and Places profiles to your website can even send additional traffic to your page by displaying your profile picture next to your article and potentially even rewarding acclaimed profiles with a higher position on the search engine page results.<\/p>\n

Google Plus SEO benefits you<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If this is still a little confusing, think of Google as a powerful family<\/em>. All of these other aspects of the Google family communicate with each other on a regular basis. When a neighbor or friend asks for a recommendation, who will that family give preference? Well, someone the family already knows well.<\/p>\n

I've heard a lot of negative press about Google+, but it's not going away any time soon. If you want to tap into the ocean-full of Google search<\/a> traffic, start your Google+ profile today for both you and your business. Add the coding to your business site to connect everything together. Start sharing links and getting engaged.<\/p>\n

Not only is your social presence going to be increased, but so will your search engine optimization. Sign up for Google+ and start connecting today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine a world where you didn't have to use a brand new program for every single aspect of your business's web presence. Wouldn't that be a dream! Well, Google is giving those of us who want to maximize our online brand identity a little extra help. Sure, the other major search engines have similar programs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[189,190,196,352,422],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-google-authorship","tag-seo","tag-web-search-engine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitespot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}