Tag: "google plus"
Google Plus To Shut Down On April 2, 2019
It’s not an April fools joke, Google Plus is finally shutting down to low use. It may soon be time to remove those Google+ Buttons from your website. The following email has been sent to Google+ users: You’ve received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page. […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus To Shut Down
Google Plus recently (in March 2018) suffered a security flaw in their social networking product that exposed user data that had been set to private. Such data like name, age, gender, occupation and email address has been exposed. The security vulnerability was kept quiet and only recently revealed in the media. Google has now announced they […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ Finally Rolls Out Vanity URLs To Most Users
As of today, Google+ (Google Plus) is now offering vanity urls (“pretty urls”) to normal non business accounts. Previously vanity URLs were only available to verified accounts, businesses and brands. Google+ first started testing the vanity URL system in August 2012 so it has taken them awhile to finally roll this product out to the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Creates Google+ Sign-In To Compete With Facebook Connect
Google is creating their own ‘Sign in with Google+’ button to compete with Facebook Connect, which is deeply integrated across tens of millions of websites around the world. Google Plus actually launched almost one and a half years ago – so I’m a little surprised to see it has taken them this long to create […]
Read More | ShareBoost Your Homepage SEO With This Social Media Share Button Tweak
We have discussed in the past how lots of social media sharing and retweets can boost your websites SEO. Google has admitted they look at social media websites to use social signals as part of their search algorithms. Facebook is a closed system and Google has said many times they can’t access the site properly, whilst Twitter […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus Reaches 400 Million Users
Vic Gundotra, Senior vice president of engineering at Google has just announced via his Google+ page that their social network now has 400 million registered users all around the world. This is both mobile users and those visiting plus.google.com. Gundotra also went on to say that G+ has 100 million monthly active users. Google has just […]
Read More | ShareYou can Finally Autopost your RSS Feed to your Google+ Page
That’s right. You can finally autopost all your RSS feeds to your Google Plus Company Page, via Hootsuite. Many of us have been patiently waiting for Google+ to open up their posting API so we can post automated feeds. Google has been working with some select providers and they now have a product available. The […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus – What does the Future Hold?
Google has created such internet relevance it is now considered a clean and simple tool which everyone would like to carry and use wherever they go. Google has so many applications associated with it, and recently, Google Plus, which is a social network, joined the line of Google innovations. Others have criticized this innovation saying […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus hits 2.2 Million Australian Users
According to recent numbers by Google, their social network Google+ has now reached 170 million users globally. This includes users on their social networking site as well as Google Account holders using the +1 button across various Google properties. Yesterday Google also released a whole new design and look and feel to their social networking […]
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Google to Launch Third Party Commenting System, and Vanity URLs
Google has just held a conference in Saudi Arabia and some interesting new information has been released. Blogger, Tech-WD has posted about Google talking about and introducing 2 big changes that centre around Google + in an effort to continue driving more users to their social network, and to also increase the relevance of their […]
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