A little late today in my post, but this is a good one about the new Google Plus Fan Pages. Google finally released their long awaited pages to the world. While the Google Plus Fan Pages do not look complete that is why you have to admire Google Plus. Release, receive complaints, and then perfect. Items, such as the changing the photo size and other features and not allowing visitors to post on your page really do not help(Note: Jeff Bullas had a great post on the pros and cons of the new Google Plus Fan Pages).
Google Plus Fan Page Knee By Knee (Step By Step)
Google Plus Fan Pages Review
The coolest thing that I saw as I did the review was that Google plus actually included a separate Google+ account within your traditional Google+ account just like Facebook did. What they stopped short of, just like Facebook, was allowing fan pages to reach out to people and connect them. If it is a different identity, why not completely recognize that?
The other item was you can now have a Google Hangout specifically for your adoring fans. So, if you are not connected with someone on your personal page you can now connect with them on Google Hangout for a quick chat. For businesses, imagine doing group sessions with specific fans on your Google Hangout page.
With that, I am curious to hear your insights into how Google Plus Fan Pages will change the game for your business on Google Plus? It is too early for me to get a full picture of how to use Google Plus fan pages, because the Google API’s need to be created to make it useful.
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Hi Andy,
Many thanks for sharing your update about Goggle+ pages and your video as well. It will be interesting to see how successful Google+ pages will be. Take care Rosemary
Rosemary,
Your welcome! I think it will eventually find a niche to capitalize on, but the challenge is that they are a little too late in the game to completely overwhelm Facebook and Twitter.
Andy
Thank you, Andy, for giving an insight into the Google+ business page and what is involved to set it up.
I appreciate the video and you review.
It looks like they want a thumbnails size or square photo, have you been able to find out the size?
Cheers,
Yorinda
Yorinda,
Glad this video is helpful!
Andy
Hi Andy,
On a positive side for Google + is very easy to set up there page . I did not have size issues with pictures etc. But I do like the lay out of the long profile photo on Facebook. Here is the page I set up. http://ow.ly/7rNU5 . We are enjoying our weekend . Take care Rosemary
Rosemary,
That is a great page! More complete than mine is at this time.
Andy
Thank you for sharing your update concerning Google+. I like it a lot and I am always open to new suggestions!
Anna,
Your welcome! Great! How can we help you then with Google Plus?
Andy
I think Google+ Business pages are a HUGE step for google+ and I already love them. If you have good targeted followers and few Google+ business pages, then I think you can monetize this very easy.
Great post, by the way !
James,
Google Plus is definitely a step in the right direction!
Good to know about the monetization.
Andy
I appreciate the video and you review.
It looks like they want a thumbnails size or square photo, have you been able to find out the size? Thnaks for sharing.
John,
Glad you enjoyed the review and video.
I was not able to get any size picture to work as of yet. Will keep everyone posted when I do. This seems to be on Google. Anyone disagree, please let me know.
Andy
Andy,
It’s about time Google got it together. This move was very necessary. This will lead to an Google + boom.
I love it!
Dewane,
Glad you are enjoying the Google+ wave! Oh, wait that disappeared.
Andy
First, I would not suggest you got to media sites or youtube and try to advertise your fan page through messages. If you are making videos, then advertise your fan page via the videos in the description sections under each video.
If you have a website or blog, refer them to your fan page. If you want a “Like” button on your website or blog (which will add one direct “like” to your fan page) , then you can go to facebook and request one from the facebook developers sections and they will give you the code to paste into your html/php/or whatever. But, most inexperienced web players or undeveloped web sites just have a direct link to the fan page via a URL, so you can do that as well. (just say “come like us on our fan page”)
Now, if you want to go above and beyond, then you can make flyers and hand them out to people at your local walmart requesting them to like you fan page. My friend did this, and he claims it was a big success. Maybe he got lucky. Maybe not. I don’t know. But, anyways, you can try this approach- it may be helpful.
Personally, My business page got a couple of likes only because I told some of my friends. I tried advertising my fan page via my blog and I only got a handful of likes that way. Unless you have a great amount of traffic to you blog, you won’t get a lot of likes (and the same applies for adsense clicks/referrals).
Lastly, if you are into spending money, then you can always advertise your page through a strict daily budget on facebook ads or adwords. I did this on facebook for about a week and stopped after that. This is because I had spend around 175 dollars, and I had gotten about 2 extra likes. So, in my opinion, it definitely wasn’t worth it. But, who knows, some other people find it quite beneficial- so I might be wrong. And, no, I do not spam other peoples pages- that is a good way for you to not get likes, and honestly, most people ignore spam.
Hope this helps!
Adrian,
Thank you for detailed description of how to get fans to your G+ fan page.
These are awesome suggestions on how to build up your fan page. If you are ever interested in doing a guest blog post on the subject that would great, because your information is dead on right for the different ways to get traffic to your page.
Personally, I have always used my blog to get fans, because that is where I spend the majority of my time in the social networking universe. It is a great way for me to disseminate my ideas to my fans as well.
However, I like your idea of going to pass out flyers to get additional fans. Never done that, but I have put my fan page in the past on my business card. I currently have my Twitter account on there now.
Actually doing a test right now on Facebook ads for my page.
Andy
Thanks for sharing this google plus fan page, it’s really cool and i like the video it helps me to understand it well.
Olivia,
Glad you enjoyed the information!
Andy
it’s nice to read all this review, can’t wait to see more updates from google plus. it’s really exciting.
Ethel,
Glad that you are enjoying Google Plus!
Andy
I think it will be more popular than facebook fan page.
Why do you say that?