Anyone Using Google +1 Yet?

12 years ago

Thanks Suzanne, I've just uploaded that to one of my sites to test it too.

Do you know how this is going to affect serps though?

I mean, it's right open for abuse. I could just mail my list for the site I've put the +1 plugin on and ask them to plus one it for me, that's before all the Fiverr gigs start, if they haven't already. :rolleyes:

I think we should have a competition to find the first signature here offering it.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Thanks Suzanne, I've just uploaded that to one of my sites to test it too.

Do you know how this is going to affect serps though?

I mean, it's right open for abuse. I could just mail my list for the site I've put the +1 plugin on and ask them to plus one it for me, that's before all the Fiverr gigs start, if they haven't already. :rolleyes:

I think we should have a competition to find the first signature here offering it.

Google +1 Enters SERPs, SMBs Look to Social Media | Optify

Following soon after other major updates to Google's Social Search, the search engine has just announced their latest innovation in search and social: Google +1. Much like Facebook's Like button, the +1 button is a way for users to recommend search results and ads from directly within search engine results pages (SERPs), and Google claims that they plan to roll the feature out more broadly across the Web in future weeks. Users can only use the new feature, however, when they're logged into their Google Account. In the event that none of your friends have recommended a link, Google may show you an aggregate view of how many overall Web users have +1′d a link.

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Last week Google announced a new feature addition to their Social Search: Google +1.
Google+1 functions similarly to other social recommendation buttons, like Facebook Likes, except users can cast their "vote" using +1 directly from the SERPs, both for search results and ads.

Yeah Richard. You show me yours and I'll show you mine. lol.
Here comes the Google +1 fiasco.

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Richard Van

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah Richard. You show me yours and I'll show you mine.

You always have to lower the tone don't you.

Thanks for the link.

I heard this was being rolled out over your way first, can you see these plus ones in the serps already? Just wondering because I can't see any here.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

You always have to lower the tone don't you.

Thanks for the link.

I heard this was being rolled out over your way first, can you see these plus ones in the serps already? Just wondering because I can't see any here.

I can't here, but I imagine you will once it's been out for a few weeks.

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12 years ago

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Richard Van 12 years ago

I just saw the video Carson. So where do you get the button to redirect to a sales page or whatever? I also noticed the plus one button on your sauna belt doesn't redirect either.

I'm surprised you didn't put that in the video because that is the difference between the plugin Suzanne links to above and your one.
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TheRichLife

12 years ago

Here is the FAQs page for the +1 button on Google Webmaster Tools:

+1 button FAQ - Webmaster Tools Help

It answers a bunch of questions about how it will affect search results.

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RichardF

12 years ago

Yeah this is bound to be gamed if they use it at all as a ranking signal. I personally don't get it at all, and I really dislike this "social" thing it seems the whole world is pushing on you. I want straight, non-customized, non-social search results please. Who's to say that a page lots of people like will be useful to me?

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by RichardF

Yeah this is bound to be gamed if they use it at all as a ranking signal. I personally don't get it at all, and I really dislike this "social" thing it seems the whole world is pushing on you. I want straight, non-customized, non-social search results please. Who's to say that a page lots of people like will be useful to me?

Oh, it will be gamed. Just like people are frantic to get Facebook "likes" and Twitter followers.

I agree. Speaking not as a marketer, but a browser, I could care less what other people like and don't really want my search engine results to show what people liked. I want the results to be relevant to what I am looking for.

But Google is Google and instead of innovating, they are constantly playing a copycat game. Facebook has Likes, Google has +1, Groupon is king of coupons and Facebook has Facebook Deals, Google is launching some coupon thing. Bing integrates Facebook in its serps, Google desperately trying to launch some social thing. It's primarily a Facebook/Google war, but Google is always behind in the game because they aren't doing anything new ... just copying.

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J.M.Wilson

12 years ago

Just added it to my flagship website... kinda funky being the first of everyone on the top 3 pages of Google to have it up and running

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Hey ... I see it in the serps now. Just did a search for chocolate candy and there it is. Puzzling ... you can click it in the serps. How do you know if you like it if you haven't opened the site yet?

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Richard Van

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Hey ... I see it in the serps now. Just did a search for chocolate candy and there it is. Puzzling ... you can click it in the serps. How do you know if you like it if you haven't opened the site yet?

Even more of an opportunity for it to be gamed, the Fiverr gigs won't even have to visit the site now.

This will be fun to watch, still nothing here that I can find but I did read it was going to be rolled out over there first.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Even more of an opportunity for it to be gamed, the Fiverr gigs won't even have to visit the site now.

This will be fun to watch, still nothing here that I can find but I did read it was going to be rolled out over there first.

Yeah, I know. I just gamed it. Searched for my own sites that have the plugin and clicked on all the little plus ones. lol. Now all I need is a gang of monkeys to do the same. I'm off to Fiverr.

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Fernando Veloso 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

How do you know if you like it if you haven't opened the site yet?

THIS ^^.

Even my 3 years old can make same question, BUT Google doesn't understand it.

Wow.
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  I'm waiting for the Hate or Dislike button.
  
  5,454 of your friends Dislike this. The website has been
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  Similar to the thumbs up/down button on yahoo news stories comments.
  
  I've said similar things before. Three guys locked in a hotel room over
  weekend with an ice chest full of beer could have come up with something
  better than that +1 button.
  
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Sarah Russell

12 years ago

I'm holding off on this until I see some more reviews about whether people are seeing a benefit from it.

To use it, you have to use a public Google profile, which is something I've shied away from, as that pretty much gives them access to all of your personal and professional connections (bad enough that they have all my info in Google Analytics). And since it's too obvious how the system could be scammed, I doubt it'll have much effect on rankings (maybe over time, but I doubt we'll see much benefit from the 1,000 "+1's" on Fiverr gigs...).

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LMC

12 years ago

I already ordered 10,000 +1's across 200 sites over the next two months.

What up G

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Sarah Russell

To use it, you have to use a public Google profile, which is something I've shied away from, as that pretty much gives them access to all of your personal and professional connections (bad enough that they have all my info in Google Analytics).

I have a public profile that is completely blank except for my name. No information in it at all... deliberately.

Originally Posted by LMC

I already ordered 10,000 +1's across 200 sites over the next two months.

What up G

lol... well this should be interesting to see what effect this has on sites and serps. Keep us posted.

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shuvo

12 years ago

You are right Google is just trying to add more features and getting more socialized than well established network Facebook.However I think Google must have to come up with some unique ideas if they want to beat Facebook in social networking area.

However dont forget to share the result of getting Google +1 in terms of getting traffic.

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JSProjects

12 years ago

There is no way this feature lasts. (At least, in its current form.) Google is going to have to protect this somehow. The Fiverr gigs are already up. Didn't take long.

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JamesGw

12 years ago

I've been using it since it was available in labs.

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Jeff Hampton

12 years ago

There will also be +1 next to Adwords ads. If you activate "The Experiment" in Google Labs, you can see them.

They aren't showing up for regular users yet.

Due to some quirks in the way that +1 works, it looks like a lot of advertisers are unprepared. I think there will be a lot of quick cash to be made in the next couple of weeks/months advising companies on how to optomize their Adwords campaigns for +1.

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neojr

12 years ago

I ask myself: will the +1 have a positive or negative effect for us marketers?

Check out polemic observations about Google +1 at Early Signals That Google +1 Button May Be A Dud

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by neojr

I ask myself: will the +1 have a positive or negative effect for us marketers?

Check out polemic observations about Google +1 at Early Signals That Google +1 Button May Be A Dud

Good article. I'm tending to be in agreement with it. Glad I only put it on two blogs to test it.

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masterjani

12 years ago

Just placed in some site.How effective it is.Only time will tell us.

Already lot of people started giving service for this.I don't know whether that will really work.

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App Developers

12 years ago

I haven't tried. I am waiting on more feedback first. I however have not seen it in the SERPS at all yet. It is interesting but don't know what to make of it YET. Keep us informed since you are already trying it out!

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