Is google+1 working well for you?

[fork8210]

Ive got different kinds of response in different webmaster forums and Im curious to what the pros here has to say about Google+1

Id like to find out how google+1 is working for people that tried it on their website. The big question, is google+1 working well for you? what are the results? Feel free to share any experience with google+1

Im looking forward for any response that has anything to do with google+1 on other sites and their experience with it. Thanks in advance!

[cleanfreak]

We really haven't seen any sort of impact yet. It seems that Google+1 is way too new, and has no where near the user base that Facebook does for their like button.

[mukluknation]

It hasn't done anything to attract any new visitors to my site. I've been asking my family and friends to +1 my site for the sole reason that I think it will somehow impact your organic rankings in the near future.

[claybutler]

I installed the Google + button on some of my higher traffic blogs and I don't think a single person has used it. Plenty of FB and SU though. One popular post I did has these stats:

Google+1 (0)
Tweets (49)
FB Like (2,000)
FB Share (487)
Stumbled Upon (121,000)

So yes, Google +1 has a way to go. People may also be using it completely differently than FB as well. Way too soon to tell how this will ultimately play out.

[jordanmcclements]

It does have a long way to go for sure, but I think that Google have to make it work and it can only go up from here (I'm talking about the +1 button as opposed to Google+ in general - which I also think will do reasonably well even if it has to make a lot of changes along the way).

You'll also find that currently (in the early stages) there are a lot more 'techie' people on G+

e.g.

on this post

http://www.ppcni.com/top-20-google-adwords-tips-e-book/

I asked people on Google+ to plus one it (if they thought it was worthy) - and it has now has more plus ones than tweets or likes. Though we are talking a tiny amount granted - it has potential - and it's not hard to install the button - so start there but maybe don't spend 8 hours a day cultivating relationships on G+ just yet

[mikehr]

I experimented with the +1 on one of my pages. Out of around 5,000 visits the number of +1s was precisely zero. So I took it off.

[jordanmcclements]

I would leave it on. It's not doing any harm - and you will get some benefit from it at some point (albeit probably a very small benefit)...

[mikehr]

I would leave it on. It's not doing any harm - and you will get some benefit from it at some point (albeit probably a very small benefit)...

I took it off because it didn't look good having a "do you like this page" counter apparently showing that nobody liked the page!

[jordanmcclements]

Is there not a version without a counter?

[Miklos]

For me, Google+ seems to have no effect. I have about 10 Google+ ratings on a small website, on a medium competitive niche. I think in few months these ratings will be used on the better percent. Actually seems to have no effect in rankings.