Google is doing everything possible to coerce its users to join Google+, its latest social networking platform. The plugs for Google+ have been anything but subtle and are displayed on Google’s homepage with a call-to-action. New Gmail accounts even come with automatic Google+ registration. Ever since Google introduced its Google Plus Your World in January… [Read More]
Google+ Count Up to 62 Million Users, and 625,000 a Day
Google+ watcher, Paul Allen claims that the site now has 62 million users and adding at a rate of 625,000 new users a day. Allen’s previous estimates have been proved accurate, which leads us to believe this is an educated statement. According to Allen, “It may be the holidays, the TV commercials, the Android 4… [Read More]
Top Brands May Have Google+ Pages, but Few Have Many Followers
Most top brands have Google+ brand pages, but the fact of the matter is that only a fraction of them are getting many visits. According to BrightEdge, 77 out of the 100 top brands now have Google+ pages and 93 of these 100 top brands have Facebook pages. Since its launch of brand pages, Google+… [Read More]
Google+ Brand Pages Beginning to Show Up in Search Results
Google is now embedding their popular new product Google+ with their already dominant SEM position. They are now integrating Google+ brand page information in the primary search results. BrightEdge has been tracking Google+ brand pages since they were launched on November 7th. However, the integration was not noted until December 20th when identified in the… [Read More]
