Google+ Pages For Business

To create your Google+ Business Page visit: https://plus.google.com/pages/create/

You can create a Google+ page in one of five categories:

1. Local Business or Place


2. Product or Brand


3. Company, Institution or Organization


4. Arts, Entertainment or Sports


5. Other

Google+ Pages can do many of the same things that a personal account can do, including:

• Share photos


• Share videos


• Share links


• Conduct Hangouts

Administration

Whoever creates the page will be the administrator of the page. No one else will be able to admin that page after them, at first. Nor can that page be transferred to someone else.

Multiple administrator support is promised in the near future, if your company has a social media manager, have that person create the account.

Vanity Urls

"Vanity" URLs are not yet available. The same is true of personal accounts. Google currently provides no update on when this might change. As an alternative use www.Gplus.to this app lets you create a short URL for your Google+ page, making it easier to share with your friends.

Auto Posting

Currently there is no support for automatically posting to a Google+ page, using native and third-party tools with Twitter and Facebook. That's likely to come in a future Google API release. Google gives no further update on when this is coming.

Following

Google+ Pages can follow other Google+ Pages. In the same way users connect with Circles you'll need to add the Google+ Page to your Pages circles. When add other pages to your Circles as a Google+ Page you have four Circles you can add them to; Following, Customers, VIP, and Team Members or you can create your own custom Circles.

Followers

Google+ Pages can not follow users until the page is added to one of the users circles. Google+ Pages cannot mention you unless you are connected.

Unfollowing

Google+ Pages Automatically Unfollow You If You Unfollow Them

The Google+ Pages platform has the ability to link your Google+ page to your site. Here you can choose to use the new Google+ Page Badge or Google+ Page icon. You can also style and customize your badge and icons. When finished just copy and paste the code snippet into your website and your done.

Visit https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/config to add a Google+ badge or button to your site.

Google +1 buttons do not cause a business to be followed withing Google+. Instead, as with regular accounts, a business page has to be added to a Google+ circle.

Google+ business pages do get an overall Google +1 count that will show on the profile page. To encourage brands following, Google is launching a new icon badge, similar to Facebook's "Facepile" badge. This feature is coming soon.

Visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ to add +1 to your pages and let visitors recommend your content on Google Search and share it on Google Plus.

A new feature for businesses is the ability to have their pages found through "Direct Connect" in Google Search. This will happen for any business that Google determines is particularly relevant for a search, if someone searches for the business with a + symbol in front of its name.