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Nov 12

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Google Tip: Connect Your Profile to Search Results

I think we’d agree we’re all looking for ways to stand out when prospects search the web.

Google is piloting one such way by highlighting your Google Profile right inside of search results.

Here’s how it works.

If you want your author information to appear in search (Google News too) results for the content you’ve created then first create a Google Profile with a good recognizable headshot as your profile photo.

Then verify authorship of your online content by associating it with your profile using one of two methods provided by Google (full details here):

  1. Add your name and email to your content (recommended if you have multiple authors)
  2. Link your content to Google Profile (and vice versa)

Once you’ve done this properly – notify Google here.

Then after a period of time you will start to see search results similar to this where your profile headshot appears as the author – and the person doing the search can add you to their own Google Plus circles to begin following your posts.

By itself adding a Google profile to search is not going to mean much unless you’re also regularly blogging with helpful content that users are searching online for. This however is one additional free tool that helps you (and your company) stand out in an extremely crowded marketplace.

How to link your Google Profile to web search results

Oct 29

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Summit Diary on Google Plus: Connect With Us!

Have you heard abou this little thing called Google Plus?

It’s Google’s latest efforts to be social – and we think they’re going to attack this in a big way by embedding the Google+ functionality into just about everything you do.

Google+ (pronounced and sometimes referred to in writing as Google Plus) is a social networking and identity services operated by Google, Inc.

The service launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only field test. The following day users were allowed to invite friends who were over 18 years old to join. On September 20, 2011 Google+ opened the doors to everyone over 18 years of age.

Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles, and introduced new features such as Circles (ways to categorize and filter information from contacts), Hangouts (video group chat for up to 10 people) and Sparks (news).

The Summit Diary staff have been putting the features through their paces for the last few months.

As of now the most impressive feature is Google Hangouts which allow up to 10 simultaneous chat participants to connect for real time video talk.

Find the Summit Diary staff on Google Plus (throw us in one of your circles) :

Wayne Schulz

Peter Wolf

Robert Wood

And to get you started here are 50+ Sage VARS or related people we’ve found already on Google+. Click the link to add them to a circle in your Google+.

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