Some Extensions for Google+ in Google Chrome Browser

In the era of new social network, the Google + or Google Plus, taking advantage of Chrome ‘extension, you are easily able to widen Google + features and experience. Here in the the first list, I will introduce you 3 must-have Chrome extension for Google + users.

1. Put a Google Plus – inspired theme on Chrome

Not only does enhance features, Chrome ‘s extension also offers various fresh interfaces for this browser. In case you are a crazy Chrome ‘s fan, you could turn Chrome into a new theme with inspiration from Google Plus. Here are some Google + inspired themes for Chrome browser.

Although at the moment, there are total few Plus theme on Chrome Web Store, I strongly believe that it will be added more in the short coming time. One of them, I found a theme named Google+ Theme, inspired by Google Plus™. There are total 1,684 users have already installed it, including me. Take a look, your Chrome will be similar like below, with a decisive black color and a big three circles on the right corner.

You can install this theme here.

2. -1 Minus One: add Google – (Dislike button).
Facebook has Like button, Google Plus responds with + one. When you taking part in Google Plus social network, you can hit + button to show your favor or interesting. However, as Facebook does not have Dislike button, Google does not provide a – button. So you can not reveal your emotion in case you are uninteresting some status, photos or links your circles have shared.

Perhaps Google will rolled out newer feature when it officially open up its services but now you can “tweak” it by a small tip. By installing the tiny extension named -1 Minus One on Chrome (link here), you can easy add a dislike (or – point) feeling. Take a look like the image below: Google will count Google + as a metric to rank your blog ‘ content.

3. reddi+ Orangered: Add a Mail Notification icon a long with default Google Plus Notification

In my opinion, the notification on the Google Plus and working across Google ecosystem is really a evolution, at least it can caught up Facebook to becomes a true social network, unlike Wave or Buzz. This red point works seamlessly no matter where you are as long as you are working inside Google with its products.

However, how do you think about an implement? If not, let see the Reddi + Orangered idea and the guy behinds it. Bacontech, the author of this extension probably came up with a very smart idea indeed. He has just released an extension that place notification count to the left of the default icon on Google + that shows you have many email left you have not read. I think, Google should plan a same feature in the official Google + version. Download it here.

Read more ...

Automatically share Google+ post on Facebook Account

It has been one week since Google Plus was released on a field trials basis. But the sad thing about Google Plus is that there is no support for third party apps and API’, so users are unable to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter accounts.

If you have a Google Plus profile and you want to post updates from Google Plus to Facebook, you have to do it manually. Regardless of whether you share status messages, links or quotes on your Google Plus profile, you have to follow the classic copy paste convention so that your Facebook friends who haven’t joined Google Plus yet, can see your status updates posted in Google Plus.

Previously, we told you about a browser extension which can be used to share Google Plus posts on Facebook and Twitter. The extension works in Google Chrome but here is another seamless and automatic way to sync Google Plus updates to your Facebook account, without having to install any browser plugin or using any third party application at all.

Automatically Share Google Plus Updates On Facebook

Facebook has an interesting mobile updates feature similar to YouTube, Twitter and other social sites) which allows you to post updates to your Facebook account using a secret email address.

The idea here is that you will have to add your Facebook secret email address as a friend or contact in any of your Google Plus circle. Next, whenever you want to share a post from Google Plus to Facebook, simply add that email to the share box and it should work just as fine.

Here are the steps that needs to be done:

1. Go to Facebook mobile setup page, sign in with your Facebook account and you should see a unique email address at the bottom of the page.

2. This is your personalized upload email address which can be used to post status updates, upload photos and videos straight to your Facebook profile, without having to open Facebook.com. Keep this email address secret and don’t share it with anyone.

3. Open your Google Plus profile, go to the circles tab and add the Facebook secret email address as a contact to your Google Plus circles.

It would be better if you create a unique circle for this email address only and name it “Facebook”. That way, you don’t have to remember the email address and you can simply type in the name of the circle to cross post an update from Google Plus to Facebook. also read: import your Facebook friends on Google Plus

4. While composing an update on your Google Plus account, be sure to enter the name of the circle in the “Sharing options” field.

5. You can add multiple circles so remember that choosing only the “Facebook” circle won’t allow your Google Plus friends to see the update. To make sure all your Google plus friends as well as your Facebook friends see a specific post, remember to choose both the “Facebook” and “Your circles” option, as shown above.

6. All done!

It will take some time until the post appears on your Facebook wall. This is because Google Plus will send an email to your Facebook secret email address which needs to be authenticated first. I have tested this method and it works just as fine.

Please bear in mind that your post on Google Plus should be 50 characters or less, anything bigger and it will be automatically truncated by Facebook email upload system.

You can try the same method from your mobile too. Simply open your Google Plus account, and share the post with the Facebook circle, it will be automatically posted on your Facebook wall within a couple of minutes.

Here is one more Google Plus tip which we think you will enjoy: Get Google Plus notifications without opening Google Plus.

At the end of the day, it is really very difficult to manage so many social sites and keep your social timeline updated. I also recommend using selective tweets, another nifty Facebook app which lets you cross post updates from your Twitter account to your Facebook profile, automatically.

Read more ...

How to Google+ affects SEO to promote your websites

Being a webmaster, I visit Facebook very often to promote my websites than connecting to my friends and buddies. Having millions of users, Facebook has become such a great platform to promote websites and other online brands. Typically, companies, websites and other business entities create their business pages in Facebook and have their Fans subscribe to their Page feeds. Facebook pages are a great platform to share your business announcements to your Fans to the world.

Now, Google+ has arrived. Google keeps their lips tight on how they are going to better compared to Facebook, but the techies are busy announcing how Facebook is going to become history in the near future!

Let us come back to the point. Thousands of webmasters including me have invested lot of time and efforts in Facebook to take advantage of the massive user base of Facebook to promote our websites. If Google+ is going to be popular, how are we going to take advantage of that as well?

Here is what we can do to promote our brands and websites in Google Plus

How Google+ helps in SEO to promote websites

Google+ does not have anything equivalent to the Facebook Pages. So, your capabilities to create a Page and promote it through Google Plus is ruled out. The next best thing you can do is, use the Google+ Stream to share posts publicly to promote your business or websites. All streams (text messages) posted to Google+ with the visibility set to “public” is visible to everyone including search engines. Google indexes the Google+ profiles and the public messages.

So, you can post any message (similar to FB page messages) and have them indexed by search engines including Google. This is a great SEO option for webmasters to take advantage.

Twitter integration is no more, is Google search going to use Google+ streams for realtime search results?

Sometime back Google introduced realtime search, combined with the regular search results. When you search for some hot topics in the news, Google will show realtime tweets from twitter, within the search results. This auto updating realtime results used to pull latest tweets, through an agreement between Google and Twitter.

This agreement between Google and Twitter has expired and looks like Google has no plans to renew it. It is highly possible that Google is trying to promote Google+ by integrating realtime feeds from Google+ stream into search results to provide realtime search results.

It is a good idea for webmasters to start looking into various ways to take advantage of Google+ as part of their SEO efforts. Posting updates from your websites to Google+ stream is a good option to get started.

Read more ...

Two way Sync for Google+ with Facebook & Twitter

We just covered G+ which allows you to view Twitter and Facebook stream inside Google+ and also allows you to update status. Publish sync for Google+ is a new extension for Google Chrome which provides two way sync for Google Plus with Facebook and Twitter. This means that you can post to Twitter and Facebook from Google+ and also post to Google+ from Facebook and Twitter. You can use either one of these networks to post to all the others using this extension.


Once installed, you need to login to your Facebook and Twitter accounts (Plurk also supported) and then authorize this app to post status updates. Once you have done that, when you post a status from Google+, you can post to Twitter and Facebook.
In Google+

In Facebook:
If you go to Facebook from Chrome and then try posting an update, you can post to Google+ and Twitter from Facebook

In Twitter:
The same is the case in Twitter as well, you can see the screenshot below.



It currently only supports text and links posting from Facebook,Plurk,Twitter to Google+, photos and videos coming soon. It also supports sharing function which users are able to share whatever public content in Google+ to: LinkedIn, Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter so on.

Publish sync for Google+ is an excellent extension which does two way sync which means you just need to post update from only one social network. But remember, you will need to use Chrome to update the status.

Download Publish sync for Google+

Read more ...

Start Google Plus Combines Google+ with Facebook and Twitter

To get started, you just download the extension and install it like any other, then log into Google+ and authorize both your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Once you've done that, you'll see your Twitter stream and Facebook news feed show up in your Google+ feed. This is really great if you want to go to a single location for all your updates, but if it's too much in one place you can always just turn it off. What's really useful is the ability to post status updates to all three services directly from Google+. The extension adds buttons to select which networks your messages gets posted to and those buttons live right by where you add which circles and specific people get to see your message. You can toggle them on and off, so it's really easy to make changes on a message-by-message basis.

If you want everything in one place, Start Google Plus is a really great way to make that happen.To get started click at below link

Start Google Plus

After Installing the Google page appear like shown below

Read more ...

Download Google Plus APK for Android

Google+  is all the Buzz right now. However, the service is invite only for now, so you’d have to snoop around your social Circles to score an invite.  But what if you already have an invite for the desktop and want to use it on your phone? Well then you have two options – an HTML5 based mobile version for Android and iOS devices and a native Android app with additional features.

Unfortunately though, the Android app isn’t available worldwide right now so you’d have to aquire it via other means. Here’s what you can do to get your hands on the official Google+ app if its not available in your market.

For Root Users

If you are already rooted, then all you have to do is use MarketEnabler to fake your phone’s provider as T-Mobile USA or Verizon Wireless. Once that’s done, fire up the Android Market and search for Google+ or pub:Google and you’d find the Google+ app in the search results.

Installing it from that point onwards is straight forward but you wont be able to access it unless you already have an invite and setup your account on a PC.

Direct Download

Updated:The Google Plus app now handles multiple Google login IDs at initial start-up.

If you don’t have a rooted device or don’t want to use MarketEnabler for some reason, then just download the Google+ APK from here (direct download link). You must have unknown sources enabled in the Applications settings of your device to side load packages.

Once installed, you can access Google+ if you already have an invite. If not, then just drop us a comment below with your gmail id and we will be happy to send you an invite.

Read more ...

How to remove a person from a Google+ Circle?

Here is the simple way to remove a person from Google+ circle

Google+ is great to organize your friends to relevant groups. For example, you can add all your family relatives to a Circle called “Family & Relatives” and all of your childhood friends can be in another circle called “Golden Friends”.

Sometimes it is necessary to move your friends from one Circle to another Circle or remove them completely from all circles. Read further to learn how to remove a friend from a Google+ Circle.

How to remove a person from a Circle in Google Plus

Follow the steps below to remove a person from a Google+ Circle:

1. Click on the Circles icon in the top navigation within Google+. It will show all your circles.

2. Double click on the Circle from which you want to remove a person. It will open the Circle and show all members in that Circle.

3. Single click on the person you want to remove from the Circle. If you click again, it will deselect the person. So, make sure the clicked person is highlighted with a highlight color.

4. After selecting the person to remove, click on the link “Remove” from the top right area of the view. This will remove the person from your Circle.

The removal will not take effect until you click “Save” in the Circle editing window. When you remove a person from the Circle, he will not be removed from your contacts. You can add him back anytime.

Removing from the Circles is very different from Blocking a person. Blocking will restrict the person’s access to your Google+ page.

Read more ...

Planning To Create A Separate Business Profile On Google Plus? Probably, You Should Wait

Sine the day Google Plus was launched, many blogs and web based business have jumped right over to create a business page on Google Plus. This is quite similar to Facebook pages for business or having a separate Twitter account for your website, service or brand.

Having a separate business profile for your website has a couple of advantages. First, your customers, readers and fans can quickly connect with your website without having to follow your personal profile. They can get all the updates from your business page on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus (coming soon) and know the recent updates or services you are offering.

The second advantage is that you can easily manage your personal profile and business profile, without mixing them together. Almost every web based company or business has it’s own business page which is justified for branding reasons.

Now that Google Plus has arrived, should you create a business profile on Google Plus? How about the idea of creating a separate Google Plus profile for your webiste or blog and posting all the updates, links, promotions and deals on that Google Plus profile?

Sounds like a good idea but in reality it isn’t.

Google Will Soon Shut Down Non User Profiles on Google Plus

Google engineer and product manager Christian Oestlien posted an update on Google Plus where he says that business and brands should not create non user profiles on Google Plus. In fact, Google will shut down or completely remove any non user profile on Google Plus, since separate profiles for business and brands are a work in progress.

In the following video, Google engineer Christian Oestlien says some  future plans of Google Plus and how Google is shaping up a separate profile for brands, so that they can do social media promotion

Christian says

It’s a fact that users react differently with companies and brands, when compared to their reaction and interaction with friends. We are well aware of that and Google wants to create a smooth and optimal experience for both users and businesses. Our team of engineers are already working to create a separate solution for companies and brandds and you should be able to create your business profile on Google Plus, within a couple of months going forward.

At this time, we don’t want people to create non human profiles on Google Plus. Hence, we will be actively communicating with profile owners in order to shut down any non human entity on Google Plus they have created. If you represent a “non-user entity” (e.g. business, organization, place, team, etc.) and would like to apply for consideration in our limited program (and be amongst the first to be alerted when the business product launches) you can sign up here.

Too Much Self Promotion Will Harm You In The Bigger Picture

It is a general rule of the thumb that people don’t like stuff which are robotic in nature.

If a profile looks too much self promoting or has a very loud marketing pitch, it will likely drive people away. Over the past couple of years, I have seen many bloggers and business do this mistake over and over again. Here is an example.

There are some users who use Twitterfeed and other RSS services to post updates to their Twitter account every half an hour. These updates never stop and are purely automatic in nature. A typical case is when the person adds dozens of reputed blogs to his automatic tweeting list and continues pouring updates every other minute. The person never responds to mentions or direct messages and neither participates in any conversation.

Guess what happens? Users not only hate such behavior but they will also tell their friends not to follow this specific Twitter account. Bad reputation, once established is way more powerful than good reputation and once you lose respect and reputation from your fans, it’s going to be way difficult to regain it.

Google Plus is no exception.

I have observed quite a few websites and reputed blogs have setup their official Google Plus profile, which makes no sense at all.

Don’t you think it’s too early to create a business page on Google Plus and spam your followers for nothing? Why are you doing this? If your website or blog is really useful, people will automatically connect with your profile and add you to their circles, their is practically no need to spam them with your business page and dump their timeline with updates and blog posts.

From my observaion, I have noticed that interaction in Google Plus is a completely new thing. Google Plus is still in it’s baby stage and current users are early adopters, who are probably 1000 times smarter than YOU. Spamming their timeline with your blog posts and updates from your website is not going to help.

If you really want to promote your website, take part in the conversation and build relationships. When you genuinely help people and engage with them, you are building something which is going to stay and prove to be more effective than an autonomous business profile.

Read more ...