It's Time To Create Your Google+ Profile

[deepsand]

The only Advantage / DisAdvantage I see in making google plus profile that whenever mail coming from any customer, his/her profile is showing on the right side whom I can add into my circles.

With gMail's market share still in single digits, such "advantage" is vanishingly small.

[marcberry]

Though it is early with respect to Google+ and +1, noting the impact Google has on the internet universe, it doesn't really make sense to not incorporate a Plus strategy into your social media efforts...

[macgizmoguy]

Though it is early with respect to Google+ and +1, noting the impact Google has on the internet universe, it doesn't really make sense to not incorporate a Plus strategy into your social media efforts...

Thanks for such a succinct and accurate statement. There isn't a single disadvantage to participating in their network of Authority and Trust, and clear real-world advantages readily visible in Page 1 of SERPS and beyond.

Author Rank is where the internet is implicitly headed. If Panda weeded out low-quality content, and Penguin decimated low-ball link graphs, the next logical move will be to go after the million and one FAKE USERS, accounts, and spammed content that are created daily with automation.

It's time to GET REAL with Google+ if you aren't already, cuz this is one fence you don't want to be sitting on the wrong side of.

[deepsand]

Thanks for such a succinct and accurate statement. There isn't a single disadvantage to participating in their network of Authority and Trust, and clear real-world advantages readily visible in Page 1 of SERPS and beyond.

Author Rank is where the internet is implicitly headed. If Panda weeded out low-quality content, and Penguin decimated low-ball link graphs, the next logical move will be to go after the million and one FAKE USERS, accounts, and spammed content that are created daily with automation.

It's time to GET REAL with Google+ if you aren't already, cuz this is one fence you don't want to be sitting on the wrong side of.

Given that the claims of present and assured future values accruing from G+ are speculative, and that investing resources in what may be a failed effort is wasteful, there may very well be a disadvantage to jumping on the G+ wagon.

[iandoc]

Thanks for such a succinct and accurate statement. There isn't a single disadvantage to participating in their network of Authority and Trust, and clear real-world advantages readily visible in Page 1 of SERPS and beyond.

Author Rank is where the internet is implicitly headed. If Panda weeded out low-quality content, and Penguin decimated low-ball link graphs, the next logical move will be to go after the million and one FAKE USERS, accounts, and spammed content that are created daily with automation.

It's time to GET REAL with Google+ if you aren't already, cuz this is one fence you don't want to be sitting on the wrong side of.

I heartily agree macgizmoguy. I have decided to embrace the concept - without being distracted by the me-too social networking nonsense.

[C0ldf1re]

... it is a big plus if used with the rel="author" tag (your profile in google+ links to your website and the rel="author" at the end of your article links to Google+ -- it shows Google you are the original author which helps prevent people scraping your content, or their getting any credit for it. Also when people search for your keywords your site shows up in Google along with the picture in your profile, which stands out a lot in the SERPs.

It's merely an unsubstantiated claim of authorship...

No doubt Google will take the view that if you claim authorship by rel="author" and nobody else does, then Google will consider you the author. If disputes arise, then Google will no doubt set up a Google's-decision-is-final arbitration system.

... investing resources in what may be a failed effort is wasteful...

Of course you are right in principle. But adding a rel="author" tag is the investment of very trivial resources.

[deepsand]

Consider the following scenario.

• Document 1, Domain Name A, Content X, Author=John Smith
• Document 2, Domain Name B, Content X, Author=John Smith
• Document 3, Domain Name C, Content Y, Author=John Smith
• Document 4, Domain Name D, Content Z, Author=John Smith

How many different Authors are here involved?

Which John Smith is claiming which document(s)?

[SteveGerencser]

The rel=author is a two way street. You can claim authorship on site if you control the site or no one there checks ownership before giving it to you. That site links to your google+ profile.

Part 2 requires that you link to the original content from your google+ page creating a reciprocal link. The odds of being able to fake both ends of the handshake are minimal and are generally considered to be safe from tampering at this point. (barring actual site hacking).

There can be an infinite number of John Smith's because they will each link back to their own unique G+ page. It's not that hard.

[C0ldf1re]

... It's not that hard.

Mind you, some of us don't want any degree of hardness at all! Do you have a link to any place with words-of-one-syllable explanations and idiot-proof examples? (Please?)

[SteveGerencser]

Mind you, some of us don't want any degree of hardness at all! Do you have a link to any place with words-of-one-syllable explanations and idiot-proof examples? (Please?)

No. I refuse to do idiot proof and simple anymore. It makes people lazy and creates better idiots. If you want to learn, Joost has some great information with several ways it can be done. Some easier than others.

http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/
http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/