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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Top tips for using Google+ for your business - part one

Top tips for using Google+ for your business - part one


When setting up social media for websites, businesses often overlook Google+, favouring Twitter and Facebook instead.


Our two part feature looks at Google+ with some top tips on how to get Google’s social network working for your business.

Refresh your Google+ stream

Sadly, at the moment, there is no way that your Google+ is automatically refreshed so you will need to keep an eye on it throughout the day. Hopefully Google will bring this feature back as the first version automatically refreshed it.

When you post, you have to tell Google whether you want it to go to Public or Extended circles.
However you choose to post will continue by default in the same way unless you change it, so if you only want your family to see your post, be mindful that you will need to change it when you post your next one.

If you are looking to increase engagement, make sure that your posts are defaulted to Public status.

Make sure your page is interesting and informative

As there is no stream on Google+, it is important to build your page so that it feels welcoming and says a lot about your businesses and what you do.

Enable the translation tool

Make use of the Google “one click” translation tool – this may well increase your engagement with foreign users on Google+.

Manage your circle limits

Keep an eye on your circle limits – use Google+ Suggestions page; this is much quicker than manually going through all of your circles looking for people to engage with.

At the same time, uncircle pages and users to make sure that you are keeping to the limit; eliminate the limit or increase it by circling users and pages.

Get in touch with us and let us know your hot tips – we would love to find out your thoughts on Google+. Do you use it to your advantage? Could it be improved?


Tweet us @AceComputerSup or of course, add us to your circles on our own ACE Computer Support Google+ page

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