Presented at SofTECH

       By AJ Kohn
Owner, Blind Five Year Old
        @ajkohn
Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
But isn’t Google+ a Ghost Town?




Don’t believe everything you read.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google+ by the Numbers




693M      343M           288M

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Google+ Secret Weapon




Huge market share. Slick mobile app.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Why should you care about Google+?


                                  If you care about
                                  search, you have to
                                  care about Google+.




http://bit.ly/googlepluseoguide   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Search+




Small but powerful.             Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google+ Onboarding




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Google+ Suggested Users




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SERP vs SERP




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Where’s Waldow?




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Results
   “42.6% increase in       “Trying to slow down                 “Engagement on
   organic traffic for      the leads because it’s               Facebook only 4% in
   clients who actively     causing customer                     relation Google+
   use Google+”             service problems!”                   engagement”

   -Kevin Gibbons           -Mark Traphagen                      -Tim Moore
   BlueGlass UK             Virante                              CrushIQ




http://bit.ly/plusjuice   http://bit.ly/plusleads            http://bit.ly/plusengage




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Google Plus and Authorship
Connect Your Social Profiles




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Connect Your Social Profiles




All your social efforts in one place at the right time.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Connect Your Social Profiles




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Words Matter




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Rel=Publisher




http://bit.ly/relpublisher              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Rel=Publisher




http://bit.ly/relpublisher              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
Tame Your Ego




Curate your niche and promote others.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Reshare




Do unto others …             Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Go Native




14 months later I’m still #1 above Wikipedia.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Mix It Up




Be authentic.               Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Create A Series




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Google Plus and Authorship
Title Your Posts




*Create your Title tag*                 Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Title Your Posts




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Use Keywords




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Use Keywords




Logged out result without Search+.    Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
Saved Searches




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Evangelists Circle




Add people who comment, +1 or share your content.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Ripples




http://bit.ly/ripplesbookmarklet             Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Flag people down




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Red Number Notifier




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Red Number Notifier




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Red Number Notifier




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Communities




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Comment




I’m not saying it’s easy, I’m saying it’s worth it.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
Social Migration




Just get them to circle you.            Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Exclusive Content




Link from Facebook or Twitter to Google+.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Hangout (on Air)




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You Should Circle Me On Google+ Now




http://bit.ly/shouldfollowme   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
The value of the +1 button?




Let others do the work for you.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
The value of the +1 button?



          Share to Google+




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Optimize The Snippet




http://bit.ly/socialsnippets       Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
But how much is a +1 worth?




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Google+ Activity API




Activity and engagement is what matters.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
Digital Content Explosion
                            “Broadly speaking, you can think of the growth
                            of the web and the growth of the computing
                            power needed to instantly index it as a kind of
                            arms race. The web keeps growing. There’s a
                            misperception that the web has become
                            established or matured, but in fact the growth
                            curve is a nice smooth exponential that hasn’t
                            shown signs of slowing down yet. We’re still in
                            the middle of the information explosion.”

                            – Peter Norvig (Director of Research at Google)




http://bit.ly/engenorvig                  Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
– Jason Calacanis (Serial Entrepreneur)


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Google Authorship

                                      “We know that great content comes from great
                                      authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this
                                      markup could help us highlight authors and
                                      rank search results.”

                                      – Othar Hansson (Google Authorship Project)




Two objectives: highlight and rank.                    Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Highlighting Authors




CTR magnet.                  Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
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Google+ Is An Identity Platform




              =

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Verifying Authorship




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Verifying Authorship




The paradox of choice.             Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Three Link Monte


                               Rel=“author”




http://bit.ly/setuprelauthor                  Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Email Address




http://bit.ly/gauthorship              Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
Authorship is very brittle.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Structured Data Testing Tool




http://bit.ly/authorbookmarklet   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Face




Use a head shot for your profile picture.          Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Author Stats




Under Labs in Google Webmaster Tools.   Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Google Plus and Authorship
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Authorship Goals


          Highlight Authors


          Rank Search Results




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Agent Rank Patent


             August 2005
             July 2009
             May 2011
             August 2011


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Author Rank


Author Rank is about fusing the
 web of people with the web of
documents and creating a more
savvy view of Internet influence.



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Author Rank




AuthorRank complements PageRank.    Blind Five Year Old | @ajkohn
Author Rank




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AJ Kohn
Owner, Blind Five Year Old
www.blindfiveyearold.com
 aj@blindfiveyearold.com
        @ajkohn

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