Whitehat B.S.

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Google is planning on dismanteling its Google+ platform,
the one all those whitehat "gurus" recommended to be the
social signal foundation of ones SEO campaign

The lesson to be learned from this:

Don´t listen to all the B.S./Hype talk that is always going on in the IM world,
especially if it comes from the so called experts/gurus whatever....
#search engine optimization #whitehat
  • I think the news (or speculation) has been way too sensationalistic. Google+ is not going anywhere, but it's not getting the development resources it's had until this point. They shifted the goals. Google+ is already pretty good in terms of functionality, and heavily tied to several major properties. In my opinion it's not likely that they'd just discontinue the service like all the previous attempts.

    Don't disagree with the social signals part.
  • From what source did you aqcuire the idea that Google was dismanteling it's Google + service? Being the Google has been doing a rather good job integrating its social network into its other flagship services, I find your statement rather difficult to consider true. Google Reportedly Junking Google+ | Mediaite is really the only source I can see this being discussed. Anyone else heard of this?
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    • The head of google+ just took his head. Do you know anyone who uses g+ voluntary?

      It´s just one big failure
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    G+ has been fudging numbers for a while.

    They consolidated all the old blogspot profiles & all the old Google Friend Connect profiles into G+, I'm sure that was to BS Google stock shareholders into believing G+ was popular.

    Reminds me of all the dead people casting votes in Florida.
  • No offense, but if you were buying into the hype IM'ers were throwing out there about Google+, that's on you. Don't blame others.

    And to be honest, outside of local SEO, I never heard an SEO I would trust proclaim that Google+ (or social signals for that matter) was important for an SEO campaign.
  • Does this mean my G+ Super Ranker Autobot WSO plan is going on ice???

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      It's like SPAM, it will be sold 50 years after the expiration date. It's still good, you just have to scrape the crust off with a butter knife. :p
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  • I don't think Google+ is going anywhere, like people have already said, they've made it the center of all their services and have pushed it heavily for quite some time now.

    Even if the "gurus" as you say try to push social signals as a way to get better rankings, IMHO you should see it less as an SEO tool and more as a communication tool (although in my opinion users usually prefer Facebook or Twitter, personally I think G+ is quite worthless).
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    • I don´t think they´re going to close down G+ after all the work they´ve put to it. Besides, even though is not as big as Facebook and Twitter, it still has users in the millions.
  • Its 27th April, Google Plus is up and running. Only change is that its creator resigned from the company.
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    Google is planning on dismanteling its Google+ platform, the one all those whitehat "gurus" recommended to be the social signal foundation of ones SEO campaign