How to Make Use of Google+ as an Author

Another way to get yourself and your books noticed 🙂

.
Everyone wants to be listed high on Google’s search engine results. You write a blog post, tweet, update your website or add otherwise content to the web. Google bots, crawling the web, are coming across your post. The page is indexed within seconds. Google estimates the domain and pages’ overall authority, based on links.

Page rank depends on a few factors, such as the number of Web pages that link to your site, the frequency of keywords within your site and how long your site exists on the internet. However, with Google+ it’s completely different: your presence at Google+ means you are high-ranked from the moment you post something on your Google+ timeline or your Google+ pages.
.

.
Use hashtags on Google+ too
Just like Twitter, Google+ offers #hashtag benefits to make searching for topics easy. It’s a great way to get found, not only inside…

View original post 585 more words

4 thoughts on “How to Make Use of Google+ as an Author”

You are hitting this new author stuff like a 800-pound gorilla! Thanks for all the blog posts and info., including this one!

LikeLike

The Story Reading Ape says:

September 10, 2013 at 08:30

LOL I had to do a quick check in the mirror and on the scales before stating that I’m only a 500 lb ape, so I’m punching above my weight LOL 😀

LikeLike

Reply

Reblogged this on anastaciamoore and commented:
Optimize your web pages . . . . read on . . .

LikeLike

Great post Great Ape, but I’m already on G+ and try to keep a balanced ‘diet’ of time spent online vs. time spent on writing/editing/reading.
I do know about and use G+’s great potential, but I also know I don’t use it to its fullest potential. One day, one day … 🙂

LikeLike