Your Google +1 plugin is costing you viewers, and you probably don't even realize it.

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The G+1 addon/plugin/whatever you wanna call it - Yep. Its taking away from your traffic.

EVERY site that has this enabled, takes AT LEAST 2 "refreshes" to load the actual content of the page - Or at least for me it does, but I surely can't be the only one.

The first time you load the page, nothing comes up. It just keeps looping the "wait" - and in the status bar, its ALWAYS the google +1 never finishes loading.

When you stop the page from loading & then click refresh, miraculously, it loads without problems.

However, not many people are aware of this.

When that page doesn't load the FIRST time, they close it and move on - Just like I used to do until I found out that was the problem.

So yea.. something you guys might want to think about before you go adding that +1 plugin/addon/whatever to your site.
#costing #google #plugin #realize #viewers
  • Profile picture of the author rowbot
    I have it on dozens of pages and don't have the problem you described. The pages load fine for me in several different browsers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
      I have it too, on hundreds of Web pages on many, many sites and have never seen the problem!

      Can you post the page?
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      • Profile picture of the author brentb
        Dude, it's not a problem with G+, its something with your browser, browser plugin or javascript. Try re-installing it all fresh. That should help.
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  • Profile picture of the author techbul
    I'm also not experiencing this issue, and I have a lot of websites.
    I am pretty sure Google wouldn't make such a mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Haven
    Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

    EVERY site that has this enabled, takes AT LEAST 2 "refreshes" to load the actual content of the page
    My suggestion is getting a better web hosting provider, I've never had any problems and we have much more than just a G+ button.

    Problem: Either your web host sucks, or you have too much Javascripts running on your site that's eating up your bandwidth.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    I'm not talking about on MY sites.. This is happening on ANY site I go to that has G+1 enabled.

    As for my browser, its the newest Firefox with no addons/extensions.. can't be causing it.

    I'll take a video of it sometime today & post it so you guys can see what I'm talking about.

    Might be awhile tho cuz I just woke up
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