Google has launched Google plus pages. It is a great opportunity for any business to have their own page on Google+.
Earlier Google+ was only supporting personal profiles and not any business profiles. Now just like Facebook, Google plus has also given a nice chance for its users to differentiate between a personal profile and a business page.
This way things are really going to be targeted and professional. Here’s a short video tutorial on how to create a Google plus page for your blog or business.
Steps to create a Google plus page
- Go to http://plus.google.com/pages/create.
- Pick a category.
- Give a name to your page (usually the name of your blog), fill in your website url, click agree to terms and press “Create”.
- Enter tag line, upload photo (a logo of your blog/website/business), click continue.
- Click Finish.
- Watch video for some customization options like adding your webpage links, photos and videos to your page.
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Salman says
Great tute on creating a g+ page … This is really a great thing from Google !! Hope the username feature will be launched soon
Yes Salman, this is a significant step from Google!
Have been reading about it all over today and here on your blog as well!
Google+ business pages was surely something everyone had been waiting for a long time, and am glad they have come out with them now. However, I guess we should add just the personal profile page on our blogs ( similar to what you already have on this blog- as Jane Sheeba) or could you add the business page of problogging success here as well?
Thanks for the great video- makes the understanding much easier
Harleena as to adding to our blog I think the profile page is the one you need to go for. The main reason is with the author markups. Although we are able to add links in Google pages, we are not able to “claim” that the added link is our own blog from the pages. However this is possible in profiles.
Lets wait and see if Google offers this facility for pages as well!
Thanks for letting me know Jane - guess we should wait and watch and am sure when and if there would be any changes- I would see it on your blog and follow suite
Pratap reddy says
Hi, After reading your post i have created a Google+ page with some links and adding badge to my site. But i need further advanced customization to make best use of Google+ pages. I hope you will share further in detail in the next post. Thanks for sharing.
Sure Pratap, I will update with more details as they come in!
Allie | Ramblings of a WAHM says
Jane,
Thanks a bunch. I have been waiting for Google + Pages to to take it to a more business professional level! It is about time they release it.
~Allie
Allie, you’re right, it was the most wanted feature from Google. Just the right time!
I haven’t created yet my page for google plus for sure this would help in the future.
Sure Adam, let me know how it goes.
Extreme John says
This is great Jane! Now that I have managed my circles well, creating a page for my business will be a lot easier in Google +. This is great news for every business owner who want to extend business beyond Facebook. Thanks for this great share of info.
You’re very welcome John. I’m sure it is a boon
Thanks for This. But do you think Google+ Pages can go viral than Facebook Pages?
Well.. we have to wait and see Harry. Its too early to tell now
Olawale Daniel says
Thanks for this nice video and the information. I’ve just shared something similar on my blog with the video inclusion. I hope you will get more views on the video. Thanks a ton
Many thanks Olawale. Your post sounds interesting too! thanks for sharing it!
Justin | Personal Growth says
Hi Jane,
This is awesome. I am going to watch your video and set up my Google Page.
Justin, let me know how it goes
Sheen Edward says
I have this G+ profile but haven’t created a page for my business. Thanks for the tutorial, I would try this one. Hope it works fine on me since I’d just jumped in G+ from FB.
Sheen, good to hear that you’re going to try. But don’t abandon FB altogether
Sheen Edward says
Yes. I’m gonna try it and maybe familiarized more with it.But I’ll keep my FB alive, thanks!
Thanks for providing step by step tutorial for creating a page in G+ and I am sure it will help many new bloggars.
I hope that many will benefit from this tutorial Lalit
Lets see!
Eugene says
Google+ can really help you to promote your business in Google
Awesome Jane! Although I am a tad late, I would add that this is really good advise that you are giving your readers. I am of the opinion that in due time, Google pages will play some important role in something
Most likely, Google will use it as a factor to determine popularity, influence, etc.. We’ll see. Great that you put this up.
Allie | Ramblings of a WAHM says
DiTesco,
Do you think your Google + page will pull more authority from Pages when it comes to ranking on Google? Meaning, if you have back links to your blog on your Google + page and you have a thriving community of people in your circles, Google will put more weight on this than, say, backlinks to non Google owned pages.
I know this sounds like a silly question but it would make sense if Google weighed their own properties more when they analyze PR and search rankings.
What do you think?
~Allie
Hi Allie. I would really would love to give you a “bulls eye” answer for this one, but sadly I can’t, because things are just moving so fast that it is difficult to forsee even in the short term what could happen. However, and because the signals are there, I do believe that at a certain point, high authority Google+ pages will eventually outrank other pages that have lesser authority on Google+. Take the “direct connect” feature that Google is now rolling out very slowly. Adding a + sign on any brand while searching will return the Google+ page of that particular brand in #1 spot. That should tell us something…
Obviously, if you have many links pointing towards your profile and a thriving community of people engaging actively, not only on G+ but on the social web as a whole, I am betting that you will definitely have more weight in comparison to those that don’t. This is why, I think that a G+ profile should be properly prepared and “authorship markup” verified accordingly. After all, you are pointing your profile towards your main website, right? So its a wheel. People link to your profile and in turn your profile is linking to your site. I am not saying that your link building efforts should only focus to your profile. A good balance of inbound links is what really matters. Hope that helps
Allie | Ramblings of a WAHM says
DiTesco,
Thank you for the very informative reply. I was not aware of the direct connect feature.
Ok, let me throw this out there. Say, I have 10000 followers on FB [ I don’t ;-( ] and an active community there. And on G+ I have that community pretty much mirrored. Do you believe because Google owns G+, my G+ profile or page will be viewed as better backlinks for my blog and thus helping to rank higher in searches? Did that make sense? Basically, I wonder if Google gives preference to links at G+ or even it’s other properties like YouTube? Should I be focusing on G+ more than FB? I said it. I am leaning to yes. What is your opinion? No pressure, lol. Should I kiss more Google butt in order to rank better? LOL.
~Allie
Hi Allie. Simple answer? I would focus a bit more on G for now, but would not recommend you to loose track of FB either. Never know
Does that help 😉
Fran, your reply makes perfect sense to me
Ricardus says
Google Page is in fact a great tool to promote everyone’s site. This tutorial indeed is a great insight
Glad that you found the tutorial useful Rich!
Rodolfo Grimaldi says
I wonder if this would be a significant step for my blogs,
alan says
thanks a lot…got a new way to promote my blog
i think that google plus is much better than facebook…?
Satrap says
Thank you for the heads up Jane. I wasn’t aware of it. I think lots of people were waiting for this. Thanks again Jane.
You’re welcome Satrap. Did you make your page?
satrap says
Hi Jane,
Yeah, I did actually, thanks to your post. I haven’t really been able to customize it yet.. its juts a simple as it can be kind of page for now.
By the way, is there any way to customize the page URL? You know how facebook lest you do that if you have a phone verified account and you can set it to facebook.com/yourname instead of facebook.com/1574fge643 or an ugly url like that.
Thanks Jane.
Rajesh says
Nice tutorial for creating a Google+ page, I have created my site Google+ page. Thanks.
That’s a great step Rajesh! Glad that I could be of help
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on how to create a page in google+. Now I can easily create one.
Claire says
Easy as pie. This could be the thing that gives Google+ an edge over Facebook. Though Facebook already has it, i really like how Google+ handled it.
@Claire I doubt Google will exceed Facebook - when it comes to social media, Google has a lot of work to do. I created a Google Fan Page for one of my websites too, but emphasize to one from Facebook because it’s more useful at this moment. Maybe in a year or two Google Pages will help promote websites too, but right now it’s wasted time.
this video is very helpful and indeed your post is very helpful and informative , thanks