Tips Guidelines And Etiquette For Posting On Google Plus

By Author: Rohan Leo
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Respect and consideration for your neighbour or colleagues will bring you closer to success at a much faster rate. Posting on Google Plus is no different. Follow these guidelines and etiquette when posting on Google plus and you will have no problems building a following and nurturing your online relationships with prospects, customers and friends alike.

Adding value

Is still one of the best strategies to grow a following and build your status as an authority in your niche. Create content that excites people and makes them want to follow you. With Google Plus circles you’re able to target your content, a vital tool to use to your advantage when building and engaging your community.

Engage and Respond

Once you have your quality content be sure to reply to questions, comments and add to the conversation. Posting valuable content is not enough; people want to know you are real and that you know what you’re talking about. Anyone can copy and paste while changing a sentence or two, so it’s important to engage to back-up the conversation. When questions are asked respond to them in a timely fashion ...
... for there’s nothing worse than leaving a potential client, follower or customer hanging waiting for a reply. They took the time to read and engage with your quality content so return the favour and show you value quality customer service.

+Name

What this does is include the person or Google+ page directly with your post. An example, I did a short Friends+Me demo video which I posted on my Google+ profile and pages and because I included +Friends+Me in my post, they got a direct notification sent, allowing them to engage directly with me.

Putting a + before a name is the same as the @ symbol in Twitter. Once you start typing the + and the name Google Plus conveniently gives you a drop down list of possible options so you don’t have to worry about making a spelling error.
Go on and test it out by leaving me a comment on your Google Plus stream and include +Rohan Leo or +Successcontd is your post.

Notifications

At the top right hand corner of your Google Plus page or profile you’ll see a little bell icon, providing your are a page or profile manager of course. When you have a new notification a little orange “ball” appears with the number of new notifications. Clicking on the bell brings up a small, floating side window enabling you to engage and respond with the source of the notification. Google Plus notifies you of shared posts, comments, mentions, invites, events etc.

Don’t Spam

This is self explanatory and with the help of circles in Google Plus there is no excuse why you are sending information to your followers that have no interest in that specific topic of conversation. Unfortunately there are no measures in place that prevent you from spamming 100% yet, so it becomes your responsibility to avoid the temptation. The benefit of using your circles wisely and posting relevant content far outweighs those of sending spam. You want to grow your followers and community, spamming people is not the way to do it, end of story! Community, pages and profile admins will not hesitate to remove and ban you from their social circles. People are becoming more and more unforgiving when it comes to spammers.

I love using Google Plus and with tools like Friends+Me, Do Share and Hootsuite I am able to schedule posts and re-shares with my followers and communities as well as Twitter and Facebook all from within Google Plus. Google Plus has become my one stop social media solution for marketing my business as well as engaging with followers, friends, clients, potential customers and groups of people that share similar interests. I am confident that by following the above guidelines you will find just as much success and pleasure.