How to create a google business page. Social network Google Plus – registration, login. What are circles, ribbons, how to create a brand page. How to Add or Remove Someone from a Circle on Google Plus
Hello my readers! Many may need to create a website in order to organize a business or present their creativity online. You can do this yourself and completely free.
You can register, choose a template, design style and place it yourself without any help. And you can be sure that your creation will be a reason to be proud. Today we will look in detail at how to create a free website on Google.
Google provides a service for free creation of Internet projects, which is called Google Sites. Initially, you will need a registered account for this.
Detailed instructions for creating a free website on Google
Initially, go to the sites.google.com page. After this, you will need to enter your account and click on the “Login” button. On the right will be the “Create site” button. We click on it.
On the page that opens there will be tips that will help you figure out how to create a website. We will look at this process step by step.
The page that opens will provide you with a selection of templates from the collection. You need to click on the “View additional templates” link. 
You will be able to view them one by one on the right side by selecting categories in the left column.
When you have decided on a future template, click on it and you will be taken to its description. On this page there will be a link “Gadget from template directory”, following which you will be able to view the template in full size in a new browser tab. 
If you have definitely decided on the look, then click on the “Use this template” button in the upper right corner.
The next step is to choose your project name and URL. When you enter a name, the URL field will be filled in automatically, but you can make your own adjustments.
The system may throw an error. This happened to me due to a non-unique address. I corrected the URL slightly and it worked
Toolbar and site settings
After completing these steps, you will see a page for your newly created resource. If you don't like something and need to make some changes, the toolbar will become your assistant. 
With its help, you can change the font, set its size, color, add effects, load and change pictures, increase (or decrease) indents, in general, do everything related to editing.
You can undo the last action and also undo the last undo. The “Insert” button in editing mode allows you to add any object that is in the scoreboard (video, calendar, photos, slide shows, etc.).
Advantages and Limitations
Sites in Google Sites have a major difference. There is access to work on the site by several users. This means that after creation, the owner can invite other users to collaborate. You, as the owner, will have the ability to distribute access to materials.
To better familiarize yourself with all the features, I recommend visiting the control panel.
I think it would be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the restrictions:
- CSS and JavaScript are not supported,
- looks like: sites.google.com/site_name,
- Customization in design and change of color, size and font style is limited.
- Anonymous comments are prohibited in general (I can’t say that this is an existing drawback, since notes left anonymously are very often of an “abnormal” nature).
- There is no RSS feed where site updates are displayed.
- Information volume limit 100 MB
I am not saying that these are disadvantages, but such limitations do exist and must be taken into account.
As a conclusion, we can say that you should not limit yourself to working only in the real world. The Internet provides such an opportunity. If you are successful in real life, then demonstrate your achievements in virtual life!
Complex programs, or rather working in them, previously scared off inexperienced users. But, as you have seen, today the process of creating a professional website will not bring many difficulties. Consecutive completion of all steps and that’s it – your website is ready!
If you liked my blog, then I’ll tell you a secret - it was created on the popular WordPress platform. Do you want too? If yes, then I recommend the free WordPress course.
Sincerely! Abdullin Ruslan
Greetings friends! Today I will touch upon the topic of the social network Google+ for the first time!
Judging by the results this social network is achieving, it can become better than Facebook itself! Just think, in a short time of existence, Google’s network has achieved what Facebook has been achieving for 3 years! If this social network is so promising, why don’t you take a place in it so as not to regret it in the future? Today I will tell you how to make a Google+ page for your website!
Until today, I had not worked with this social network, I didn’t even really know anything about it, but the innovation pushed me to register! Now I have my own my blog page on Google+!
You may have a question - “Why should I create such a page?”.
The answer is obvious! If the social network from Google+ in a short time achieved the results that Facebook achieved in 3 years, this project has a future! Before this network grows into a mega network, you should hurry to take your place in order to grow and develop with it. In addition, creating a page for your website is not at all difficult!
Before we start, I want to remind you that you can get additional traffic, take advantage of it!
Create a page for your website on Google+
Go to the social network address - https://plus.google.com/
If you are not registered, please do so. Registration does not cause any complications and you should not have any questions about this.
After registration has been successfully completed, go to your account and at the very bottom of the right column click on “ Create a Google Page+”, as in the picture.
After this, you will be asked to select a category, select “ Product or brand”
After filling out the basic information, you need to fill out your page profile. Enter a description and upload an image. Naturally, the image should be such that your site is immediately recognizable just by looking at the image!
After you click the “Continue” button, you are asked to tell us that you have created a page for your site, which you should do! Although, if you have just registered in the system, there is no one to read you.
After everything is done, you will be taken to a page asking you to create your own news feed and we, of course, agree!
Publish the post and you're done! Now you have your own blog page on Google+! But that's not all! Since you have your own page, you need to tell your friends about it, right? Of course, you can send invitations by email or via Twitter, but then the newcomers will not know about it. Google+ has taken care of this, you can immediately place a button from this social network right on your website and you don’t have to worry!
Google+ icon on your site
On the page where we were asked to create a feed, below we can get an icon.
Click on “Get an icon” and select the type of icon on the proposed page.
In the following stages, I am not your advisor, everyone has their own taste, choose according to your taste and place the icon where you like!
I placed this icon, without any inscriptions, like this:
This is the code I posted:
Good afternoon dear readers of my site. Today we’ll talk about a relatively new social network Google Plus. We already mentioned it when, in this review, we look at this social network from all sides. Let's look at registration in Google Plus, login and capabilities of this social network, setting up a profile on Google+ and what has changed in this social network with the change in the general design of Google products.
Google has been trying to become a player in the social networking market for many years. There was even an attempt to buy the social network Twitter. But this attempt failed and several years ago Google presented its social network Google+.
Over the past years, Google Plus has been in constant development. The company makes a lot of efforts to popularize its brainchild. Most Google products are already linked to a Google+ profile, and this process is not stopping. This is producing positive changes - today, there are more than 200 million registered users of the Google+ social network (according to the company). On the other hand, this behavior of Google causes anger on the part of the audience, which does not want to see mandatory registration in all Google products, or dependence on the Google Plus social network.
It is this behavior of the company that leads to disappointing results. According to some sources, the time spent on the Google+ social network is calculated in minutes, while on other popular social networks (Facebook, VKontakte) a user can spend several hours.
Registration in Google Plus
In order to register with Google+, no need to do any complex manipulations. As mentioned in previous articles, Google has introduced a single account for all its products for its users. To register with Google, just register and get your gmail.com mailbox.
By registering a new mailbox, we create an account in Google. You just need to enter your mailbox address and write a password for it. That's it, you have your own Google account and access to all its products.
A list of possible company software products can be seen on the main page of the search engine. Click on the square in the upper right corner and a list of Google products will open in front of you. Select Google Plus.
By clicking on the G+ icon, you are taken to the news feed page. Before using all the features of this social network, you need to create your profile on Google Plus. To do this, click “ Join to…» and in the window that pops up we check the correctness of your data. Data is taken from your email account
After checking the data or entering new ones, click “ Create a profile" In the next window, you can add your profile photo.
This is where the creation of the profile actually ended. Now you have access to the full list of Google+ features and services. We'll talk about this below.
You can customize your page in Google Plus. To do this, go to the tab “ Profile».
This is my Google Plus page. To change the background photo or profile photo, or make minor changes to the profile, you need to click on the " Edit profile" You can create collections - this is a kind of VKontakte group. It contains posts, photographs, and links related to certain topics. She, like a group or community, may have subscribers. It's easy to create a new collection in Google+:
Enter the name, a brief description of the collection and who it is intended for. By default, your selection is visible to all network users; you can limit visibility to your circles, show only your loved one, or offer your own option.
Your own option for visibility of the selection - members of your circles (Friends, Family, Acquaintances) or find the people you need through search.
By clicking on the pencil on my Google Plus page, you can leave a note. It's kind of like writing on the wall on other social media platforms. Your subscribers will see it.
Thus, we registered with Google Plus and set up our profile on this social network.
Google Plus features - feed, collections, communities and people
Now let's move on to the most interesting part - using social network Google Plus. When you log into your account, you will be taken to the News Feed page. It displays all the posts left by users you follow and popular posts. This is a kind of RSS feed.
You can also leave your entry in this feed. This is done simply.
A window opens to add your entry to the feed.
In this window you can not only leave your entry in the feed, but
- Share a photo, image
- Interesting link
- Create a survey
- Leave your coordinates on Google maps
When creating a message, you can determine who it is intended for: For everyone, for a specific circle, or find by searching for the person to whom it is intended.
You can comment on any post in the Google Plus feed, share a link to it, ignore it, or complain about it.
Collections– these are user materials collected into one group according to certain characteristics, mainly on one topic. Each user of the Google Plus social network may have more than one collection. It all depends on the interests of the user.
You can create collections yourself in your profile or subscribe to others. A large selection of collections can be found on the tab of the same name " Collections».
In the " My» presents the collections you created.
If you don’t see the selection you need, you can find it through the search. Once you select what you were looking for, you can subscribe. This can be done either on the main page of the tab " collections"or directly on the main page of the collection.
After subscribing, you will receive notifications about new materials in the collection. They will also be displayed in the “ Subscriptions».
Google Communities Plus. By analogy with subscriptions, communities collect materials on certain topics. The difference between communities is that materials published in them can be commented on.
The interface of the community section is organized similarly to Collections. You can join all communities, but some of them require you to submit a request first. After which the community moderator makes a decision about your entry.
People Tab. In the old Google Plus interface, instead of this tab there was Circles tab. These are your social circles on the Google+ social network.
Once you go to this tab, you'll see several of your social circles presented by default. At the beginning, one will be empty, but as communication increases, they will be filled by you. To add a person to any circle, you need to subscribe to him and first find him through the search. By subscribing, the person you choose is included in your Google circles plus and is located at the top of the page. At this moment he is not in any of your circles. To add it there, you need to click on the “ Subscriptions"at the bottom of the person's avatar. In the list provided, select which social circle to include.
After that, he will appear in your chosen social circle on Google+.
If the circle you need does not exist, you can create it by clicking on the “ Create a circle».
In the " Who to add» you can find recommendations from other network users you follow.
Tab " Subscribers» contains a list of your subscribers. You can select any of their subscriber lists and add them in the same way to your desired Google Plus social circle.
What has changed in the new Google Plus interface
That year, Google rolled out a new interface for all of its products, including Google Plus. Today there are many instructions on the Internet for working with Google+, but they are all based on the old Google Plus interface; in the new version, some products and features are no longer available. Let's look at what's missing from the new Google+.
Photo
This feature was removed from Google Plus and made into a separate Google product, not specifically related to Plus.
Hangouts– this is the ability to broadcast video directly to the network. This happened before, but now it is a separate Google service, an analogue of Skype. Thanks to this application, you can arrange video conferences, make calls with users registered in Google Hangouts, and chat.
Google brand page “+page”
In the new interface you will no longer find the ability to create branded pages, that is, the service +pages moved to the Google software products section. And presented under the title " My business" It is located in the same right window where all Google products are presented (shown in the screenshot above).
How to create a +page for business
Go to the “My Business” application. The landing page of the application opens in front of us. Since we have a Google account, we click “Login” and get into the + page creation wizard.
A page opens before us with a choice of company type. There are three types of " Local business», « Outcall services», « Brand" Now a little more about each type of +page
- Place-based businesses are restaurants, shops, all types of businesses that have a fixed address on the map
- Outcall services. Services that can be provided at the client’s place of residence, that is, this type of business is not tied to a physical address, mobile business (pizza delivery, taxi, flower delivery, etc.)
- Brand. This type of + pages is designed to convey to users exactly the name of the company, company, brand. Needed for brand promotion.
Here you must make a choice yourself, based on the above recommendations. In my case I chose " Brand" In the window that opens, fill in the information about your brand and click “ Create +page».
The next step will be the page we created for our brand. I want to say right away that even though the “+page” application has left the Google+ menu, it still remains completely tied to the G+ social network profile. Now we will see it.
What do we see on a brand’s business page?
- Linking to Google+ profile. If you click on “Publish update”, a new Google+ account will be automatically created with information from the +page
- Google Analytics. It is possible to connect Analytics to your brand page
- The Edit button will take you to your Google Plus page, where you can change your company information, logo, and profile photo. You can set up a Google Plus profile as described earlier
As you can see, the +page is completely linked to the Google profile+. This page shows visit statistics and the number of subscribers.
This is how a branded + page is created. Thanks to it, you can monitor the development of your Google Plus profile, keep statistics and attract new fans of your brand.
Conclusion
Social network Google+ is a unique network in comparison with other popular social networks. It has its own zest. But something is still missing to make it more popular. I think that over time Google will be able to understand this and correct the shortcomings.
In terms of website promotion, I would like to note that by placing announcements in the Google Plus feed, the search engine indexes your page much faster.
If I missed something or made a mistake, please write in the comments, correct me or supplement me.
In the world internet marketing There has been talk for a long time about Google+ as an effective SEO tool. But many are still skeptical about it. Even now, some of our clients, when we recommend that they create a company page on Google+, ask in surprise: “Why do I need another social network? Is it really not enough that we are on VKontakte, Facebook and Twitter?”
In this article I will not describe in detail why, to whom and why this is needed, but I will answer briefly: if you want to be well represented in search results, a Google+ account is very desirable. So, let's take a step-by-step look at how to create a Google+ page for a business.
Create a Google Corporate Page
A page for your brand or company can only be created from an existing personal Google+ account. Log in to your profile, select: “Feed -> Pages -> Create Page”. For those who don't like to search, here is the link: https://plus.google.com/pages/create.
Selecting a page type
Well, everything is simple here. Each business has its own characteristics, so you are invited to make your choice from several options.
Filling out company information
Depending on which category you select, the information required to fill out will be slightly different. For example, for positions:
- business or place;
- product or brand;
- company or organization
you just need to choose your field of activity (cars, household appliances, etc.). It's even simpler:
Design customization
In this case, everything depends on you, and I don’t think it’s worth talking about the need for high-quality graphics once again. Change the logo and choose a cover for the page (its size is the first thing that surprises new Google+ users - 2120x1192). This is what our company's Google+ account looks like. By the way, those who have not yet added us to their circle, feel free to click.
Completing filling out company information
On the “About Me” page you need to provide brief information about the company, address, website, etc. Don’t forget about the keywords in the description, but also think about the users - the text should be informative and readable.
Connecting a Google+ account to your website
There are two main ways to link your Google+ page to a website:
- Using a link to Google+ from the main page of the site Google+.
- Insert into block code (in this case, there will be no link on the site. I don’t quite understand why there is such secrecy, but it will do as an option).
In turn, in your Google+ account, on the “About Me” tab, you need to put a backlink to your website.
…. And some tips:
And remember that Google+ is the second most active social network in the world, which is actively promoted by the search giant itself. With full control over the data, Google is already using it to determine Author Rank, and this direction will only develop. A clear idea of what users “upvote”, what they share with friends and what they recommend will significantly improve search results. This is a tool that is simply unwise to ignore now. As one hockey player I know says: “You need to move not to where the puck is now, but to where it will bounce.” Google+ is where you will catch that coveted “puck” if you move in the right direction.
The Google+ social network is a very powerful tool for promoting and interacting with website audiences. Thanks to the actively developing community and interaction of the social network with other Google services, Google+ has become a tasty morsel for many webmasters. Of particular interest here are the so-called plus pages. In this article I want to help you create and promote your + page on Google+. Shall we try?
Regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, I recommend starting your acquaintance with Google+ with my review article: “?” In this case, you will be able to immediately clarify a number of issues for yourself and avoid misunderstandings of what I will talk about in this article.
How to create a page on Google Plus?
Step 1: Section +Pages. To create a new plus page on Google+, you need to go to the section of the same name “ +Pages", where click the blue button " Create +page».
To do this, you can use the link provided or select the desired section from the drop-down list located in the upper right corner of the service pages.
Step 2: Company type. Recently, Google began to actively promote something they called “ My business - Addresses" Therefore, in the next step you will be asked to choose one of 3 types of company. For my blog, I decided to choose the type " Brand».
Step 3: Title and page type. After this, you need to indicate the name and select the type of +page, as well as accept the terms of use of +pages. If you wish, you can also specify the site URL or do this later.
Step 4: Complete your profile. After creating a plus page, you will see a Google My Business greeting. By clicking the " How to start"You can get some tips, and by clicking the " Skip" - start working with it immediately.
Now you are in the section " » profile created plus page. To switch between profiles, use the drop-down list of accounts located in the upper right corner of the service pages. But now we need to fill out the profile of the created plus page, simply by following the given instructions.
- Add a few words about the company.(Briefly about yourself) . Here, using the visual editor (you can insert a link!), You can give information about the plus page, company, etc.
Add a profile photo. I recommend taking care of this in advance and preparing a photo/picture of proportional dimensions (square), no less 250x250 pixels (recommended photo size 1000x1000 pixels).
However, if there is no proportional picture – it doesn’t matter, the excess can be cropped in the online editor. In addition, you can rotate the photo to the right or left.
As for the size, it should be taken into account that the photo can also be used by other Google services. At the same time, its size can be increased, which means we will get a blurry image.
Add a cover. Cover- this is a big photo (recommended size 2120x1192 pixel), displayed at the top of +pages. In fact, the cover also serves as something like an advertising banner displayed to the right of the profile photo plus the page.
When creating a cover, it is worth considering a number of features of its use. In particular, the central part of the cover, in a blurred form, is used as a background for the information block with the profile photo. I also noticed that when viewed by the user, the cover may be cut off ~7% edges, right and left, as well as ~1% below. There may be other features, but the main thing is not to try to calculate something down to the pixels; the cover should be as flexible as possible.
Add contact details. Here you can specify your phone, mobile, email, fax, pager, chat and address. At the same time, you can select access rights to this group of data: extended circles, for everyone (default), my circles, only me or specific users.
Add a website (if one was not specified when creating the plus page). The website URL refers to contact information and requires proof of ownership.
It is noteworthy that based on the specified URL, you will be offered a short personal URL.
Confirm the data. To do this, you need to add and confirm rights to the site in Google Webmaster Tools and/or place a LINK tag in the HEAD section of the site’s web pages with a link to the plus page, for example:
Tell us about your company in a nutshell(In a nutshell) . Here you can give a short description or indicate a slogan plus pages, companies, etc.
The profile is 100% complete and that's right!
Step 5: Links. Go to the " About Me» of your +page and pay attention to the “Links” block, where (besides the website) You can also provide additional links (I personally indicated the addresses of my blog pages). To do this, click the link " Change” in the block and gradually add the necessary links.
By the way, here you will also find the proposed option personal URL, if one will be assigned plus to the page. Read more about how this happened for me. True, now it happens much easier and faster, but still. It's a shame that you now need to add a couple of characters to your personal URL plus pages, which doesn't look as attractive as we'd like, but as we know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
