Google Plus (Google+) is Google’s latest attempt at social network. It has become a hot talk on the internet (it accounted for 35% of tweeted news links in the week immediately after it’s launch in June 2011).
I like Google+ not only because it’s a great social networking service, but also since it’s an amazingly powerful tool for all bloggers and affiliate marketers. In just a few days, it boosted the visitor count of one of my blogs and assisted me to prepare a niche marketing campaign I’m going to launch soon.
In this article I’ll show you all bloggers and affiliate marketers how you could benefit from Google+. Before I introduce it, let’s have a look at some solid data.
Blogging
Right below is the daily page view statistics of one of my blogs generated in WordPress. This blog received a doubled page view count since 9 Jul. The record was broken everyday.
The following box shows the top traffic sources of this blog on a typical day. Google+ has been the number one referrer, amounting to over 10% of traffic every day. These visitors are new to this blog. They got to know this blog only because of Google+.
Affiliate Marketing
I have an affiliate marketing project in the pipeline, following Steve’s Affiliate Marketing without the Bulls**t. Google+ helped me with two things, firstly getting ideas for writing free e-books and email auto responders. Secondly, I connected with many people who are interested in the niche, whom I could convert into visitors to my affiliate site when it’s done. In just half day I got over 200 people following me on Google+.
