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Google Plus. That Damn Thing

Google Plus. That Damn Thing

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I know its too late now to post about what Google Plus is and what I think about it but screw it, I’m gonna post about Google Plus anyway. 🙂

google plusGoogle Plus was launched last June 28 although it was just like a week after before i got aware of it. Truth is it was just this Saturday that I got an account with it thanks to a very very beautiful lady named Pao (she gave me an invite).  So I started using it and exploring it and quite frankly, its confusing. I mean just imagine how its so different coming from a platform like Facebook and then moving on to Google Plus and then thinking it just works like Facebook.

Anyway here’s my Google Plus account and you’re free to add me up if you think I deserve it. 😉 As of writing this blog entry, its already my fourth day using Google+ and I can definitely see its potential and how its so different from Facebook and Twitter as far as usability and worthiness are concern, yet they’re on the same plate when talking about ease of use. I see it as a combination of Facebook and Twitter plus LinkedIn. You can pretty much imagine it as something like Facebook yet with a professional ‘semi-corporate’ touch. With that, I don’t really see myself posting as often as I do on Twitter/Facebook as with Google Plus.

Google Plus for Internet Marketers

Well a lot of marketers and bloggers have already expressed their thoughts on how they can use Google Plus to market more and tap into a more “confined” audience. I would say I can’t agree no more.

Google Plus made it a lot easier to connect to the right people/demographics with the use of circles w/c is basically just like groups. The idea is that when you add people, you are allowed to place them inside these circles. So if 10 of these people are family members, then obviously I would place them inside the family circle and so on for the other groups.

With this you can ‘segment’ people that you are following and are following you and then share to them accordingly. Let’s say I’m voicing in something about internet marketing or a make money online tip, then what I will do is simply just allow people in that ‘circle’ to see it. The same way when you go personal and you don’t want your customers to see what you’re violent ramblings are. Now bare in mind that this is possible to when using Facebook, only that Google Plus has done a good job making this feature much more intuitive.

With that in mind, I’m seeing this tool as something that could potentially be in the same level as emails as far as marketing is concern. Because I feel that right now we’re getting into this point that a lot of people are getting more and more tired of the ‘usual’ marketing stuff and that they’re slowly tuning it out.

So does that mean Google Plus will be a good way to tap into a slightly different way to reach out and market to people? Absolutely! What’s remains unseen is how effective and worthy it could be since right now Google themselves are limiting people who can join and obviously they’re not gonna let marketers take over Google Plus. Google’s definitely not the easiest company to game with.

That’s my take with Google Plus and how it could impact us overall. How about you, what do you think of it? Perhaps, it might be a better idea to add me to Google Plus so I can test it out thoroughly and then let you know my findings. 🙂

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  1. You’re right but whats most interesting to see is how Google would respond knowing that its us,marketers who are going to try the game the system the most. I’m sure they’re going strictly implement some hardened fast rules especially on things like promoting stuff that we can normally do on some channels. Its intersting I guess.

  4. Yea thats exactly my point but right now there really isn’t anything to game because Google+ is still in invite mode.

    As far as massively promoting something I think theyre just gonna take the same stance as other sites. I mean how can you prohibit dropping affiliate links there or doing some other shady stuff that in reality isn’t really bad (just annoying).

  6. I haven’t had a chance or invite to check it out yet. The layout and design looks smooth and decent, I hope it isn’t too confusing like you mentioned. But, like anything new it will take a little exploring to get the hang of things. It was the talk of the internet world the past week or so. I don’t hear so much lately. Wait until it goes full public, it will be the talk of the internet world again.

  12. I see Google Plus is a new thinking about SEO. Internet marketers need to think this. Blog with adsense also be affected if Google plus has been launched for the public, because Google Plus features circles and sparks. Targeted keyword will be much affected

  13. I dont wanna say I agree because Google plus is pretty much like just Facebook as far as search benefits are concern. There really isn’t that much to gain..