If you are looking for visitors for your blog, there are new sources of traffic, such as the new platform (Google says it is not a social network) Google+. I am not a user, but in the last few weeks I have probably read about 30 posts in English, German and Spanish on the subject. I am sharing what I have learned from them.
Carlos Bravo1
Google+ is the new bet of the search engine that dominates the world. Things have changed since Schmidt left his position as CEO to Page . Google is obsessed with beating Facebook in the social networking race. All new projects have to add value to the strategic product Google+.
Using Google+ as a traffic source for your blog
I am not a user of the platform. All the points I mention in this post are a summary of x blog posts in Spanish, English and German that I have been reading lately on the subject. For those who do not know journalist email list Google+ that well, I recommend reading the post by guest blogger Sonia Diez “Google+ – alternative or complementary to Twitter and Facebook” , a “heavy-user” of the platform and who is also part of the “77 social media blogs you should not miss” . Let’s start with the question about its importance.
Why might it make sense to open a Google+ account?
I have been refusing to write about Google+ for a long time because I don't like to follow topics that are in fashion. Seeing that it has held up for the first few months and people are still talking about it, I have to take it seriously. It seems that the new platform is gaining more and more importance.
Traffic source to generate visits to the blog or website.
Impact on web positioning through “+1” .
Appearance in search results by integrating the new author tag (“authorship mark-up”) into your website.
It seems that Google's plan is to force us to create an account on their platform if we care about SEO. Still, there are also several reasons against Google+.