5 Ways Google Plus can Help Blogging Affiliate Marketing by Steve Scott

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+.

Read More: Orginal Article

Google Plus Widget For Your Blog

WidgPlus, a third party application for Google+ allows you to create a widget for your Google+ account and you can use the embed code on your blogs or websites. The widget allows you to show your latest Google Plus posts on your blog or site. Therefore its a great opportunity to get in touch with your visitors!

Go to WidgPlus and enter your Google+ ID. It is nothing but the group of numbers present in your profile URL.

Our Google+ profile URL : https://plus.google.com/100622940487046109508/posts

Here this is the ID : 100622940487046109508

Copy and paste yours there and get your widget. 

Original Article

Google+ limits Viewing to the last 250 posts for any profile

Google+ only lets you view the last 250 posts for any profile including your own. The first screen displays 20 and each time you hit More Google+ displays 10 more posts. But after you do this 23 times. you hit the limit of 250 posts, the More disappears and you cannot see any older posts.

Now, the older posts are still there on Google+ - they are just not easily accessible. The only way you can view them is if you know the URL of the post. This limit is not a bug but appears part of the initial design of G+.

We are not sure if there is an easy workaround or if this limit will be lifted in the future. Given that there is no way to search for your older posts within Google+ right now, this seems to be a big limitation in finding and referring to older posts. 

Please note that the number of actual posts anyone sees seems fixed at 250 but the last visible post may be different for everyone depending on which circles they are in and how many posts were shared with them (public and limited)
The above limit was discovered earlier in this post -https://plus.google.com/107797841320768724118/posts/RNSqcw1k4Fn
and credit to goes to everyone who contributed to the discussion and thanks to +Steve Coles for suggesting this limit. I am reposting this issue as Public since the original post was to Extended Circles only.


I have verified the limit of 250 with my posts as well as those of +Robert Scoble and +Mike Elgan

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this limit earlier - if so please post the URL of the post in the comments.

If you consider this as a problem please do reshare and also report it via feedback.
to Google+.
cc : +Vic Gundotra +Bradley Horowitz


via Arun Shroff 

Google+ Update: Reshare Posts from the Google+ Android App

The newest version of the Google+ Android app (v.1.0.6) is rolling out today, and it features one of our most requested features: reshare posts! Grab the update when it’s available in Android Market :https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus

Google+ Update: New "Ignore" Option, and "Block" Explained

Ignore means you'll see less of what a person is sharing (i.e., you're just not interested). Block additionally limits the ways a person can interact with what you're sharing (i.e., you don't want anything to do with them). And in either case, we don't notify the person that you've ignored or blocked them. (Help center articles are

available at http://goo.gl/HQ7AS and http://goo.gl/KNW7L )