No ‘set and forget’

 

But it goes even further: if the people in your circles also interact with your post on Google+ (+1 or share), the same happens for the people in their circles. They will of course see your article in their stream on Google+. But – and this is at least as important – they will also see the article appear in their search results (if they perform a search query relevant to your article). The latter even happens if they have a Google+ profile, but are not really active on Google+. And so: the more followers you have and the more influencers there are who  mobile phone number data updated 2025 share or +1 your Google+ content, the more people your content will also appear in the search results, regardless of whether they are very active on Google+ or not.

Google+ is becoming more powerful than Twitter

And this is where I think Google+ really has potential for a marketer. Google+ is perhaps even more powerful than Twitter from a marketing perspective: a tweet or RT of your article can certainly generate extra eyeballs and traffic. But with Google+, you don’t just get those extra eyeballs and traffic from your article being shared or +1d, it also makes sure that you appear in the search results of a lot more people – even if they’re not really active on Google+.

Yes, even Gmail affects rankings

jors2Something similar happens with Gmail, according to Moz . Google+ content from someone can suddenly appear in your search results, even if you don’t follow that person on Google+. How is that possible? Simple: if you’ve already had an email conversation with that person via Gmail, Google concludes that the content from that  belgium numbers person might be relevant to you. Okay, spamming? No, because that’s not how it works. There has to be a real email conversation. One-way traffic has no influence on this.No ‘set and forget’

An important nuance is that there is a kind of time decay: the Google+ content does not appear indefinitely in the search results of f tips for domain investors ollowers. After some time (somewhere between one week and two months) that content disappears from the search results again.

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