Comments on: How to Build Search Engine Ranking Power with a Google Plus Brand Page

By: James Kieffer | Why Your Local Business Needs Google+ to Grow

James Kieffer | Why Your Local Business Needs Google+ to Grow — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:46:00 +0000

[...] Building your network, posting relevant content and continuing to actively grow your profile is vital to getting higher rankings. Google places tremendous weight on being active and posting content on an ongoing basis. For more information on how to leverage Google+ to gain more web traffic read “How to Build Search Engine Ranking Power with a Google Plus Brand Page.” [...]

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By: Eric Van Buskirk

Eric Van Buskirk — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:04:00 +0000

It’s easy to mis these disqus comments. Thanks for the long response. I continue to see Google+ as the most FUN and best professional pay-off off all social networks.

By: Mark Traphagen

Mark Traphagen — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:30:00 +0000

HI Erik, sorry I missed your question earlier. I’m hoping you’ll see this now.

Most of us who are watching the Google Authorship project closely do not believe that Authorship as a direct ranking factor is “full on” yet (although Google reps have consistently said it will be, at some point). They are gathering data on how people are using it, and when it does kick in in full, those who have been using it (and building up a trusted profile with good, highly-engaged content) will see an immediate boost.

In the meantime, it certainly affects the results of your logged-in followers…and their followers as well. So the bigger you grown your Google+ network, the more exponential that effect will be.

And there are the present benefits of 1) the rich snippet result, which shows to both logged in and non-logged in searchers, and is proven to dramatically increase CTR, and 2) protection from scraped content outranking your OP of it.

All that being said…our testing has us fairly well convinced that Google is currently using authorship data as part of the “social signal” it feeds into its algorithm. This means that it is not so much a factor of how many follow you, as it is how much and by whom your content is engaged on all the social media sites you have connected to your G+ profile.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Every time I visit your site I learn something new. Keep it coming!

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Google+ Features that Most Affect Search Ranking — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:24:31 +0000

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By: Peter Veazey

Peter Veazey — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:05:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing your knowledge about the importance of Google Plus in getting good page rank in Search Engine. It’s true that like other social media the Google Plus is very influential to drive traffic to your site.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:50:00 +0000

From Jay Leno: “Teach a man to sell fish, and he’ll eat steak.”

By: Eric Van Buskirk

Eric Van Buskirk — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:23:00 +0000

This is really amazing, Marc. I haven’t seen a benefit to having a strong PERSONAL Google+ account as far as SEO….sure it does mean my stories come up high for my 2000 followers, but for others my site doesn’t rank any higher. I share a lot, on topic, on Google+. From what you’re saying, for brand pages their is an SEO signal that is not present for people.

For example, I see that you have your author credit for this great article, but I don’t think it will help this piece help rank higher for people not logged in who circle you, correct?