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<h2><a href="../../blog/search-engine-vanity-2" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Search Engine Vanity">Search Engine Vanity</a></h2>
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<p><small>December 4th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p>Ever Googled yourself? We all know we have and chances are you have found another random person who just happens to have your name. You think to yourself that you should be up there and would love to be on page 1. Just so you can show off in front of your friends.</p>
<p>So how do you optimise yourself to be on page 1? You can’t, but what you can do is optimise one of your social media profiles. The way to do this is through <a href="../../link-building">link building</a>. One of the easiest ways to do this is link from your site to your social media profile with the anchor text of your full name. If you do not have a site of your own, try guest blogging on other people’s sites or using the website known as MyBlogGuest where you can submit your articles and include the anchor text to your profiles.</p>
<p>In the majority of cases, not many people will be optimising their social media profiles for their name because they would not generate any business out of it. This is purely vanity and just something you can show off to people.</p>
<p>If you are not such a good writer then the only other thing you can do is purchase link building services, but I think the fact that you are page 1 for your name is not worth purchasing the link building services. It is worth writing some articles and including your social media profiles as the correct anchor text.</p>
<p>Most guest posting sites will let you link to a website and your social media profiles, so you can optimise not only your social media profile, but other sites at the same time, which will no doubt help to increase your <a href="/">SEO</a>campaign and the results that it will bring.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Optimising your profiles is something to do because you can, it can be used to help with social media, but unless you’re famous there is no point because there is probably a low amount of people searching for you. So it is fairly simple to optimise your profiles for your name due to the low competition.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-gives-away-free-links" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Gives Away Free Links">Google Gives Away Free Links</a></h2>
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<p><small>November 28th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p><a href="#"></a>Everyone loves a free link, and if it doesn’t take a lot of effort to do, you’re mad for not doing it. Google Plus has released business pages so you can now create a profile for your business, but not only that, you can use this profile to help improve your <a href="/">SEO </a>efforts.</p>
<p>There are 3 areas on each Google Plus page or profile that you can use to send links your way: introduction, website and recommended links. The last two are fairly obvious to send links your way but you need to make sure you are using them properly. The first is introduction; this is the designated area to describe yourself or your business. Make sure your keywords are in this section as it will not only help you rank on Google + but you can use this to help your site rank. Simply highlight a keyword or phrase, select link and add in your website.</p>
<p>The website area is self-explanatory but there is no opportunity for an anchor link like the introduction area. The recommended links section allows you to show your friends your favourite pages. The title of the page is basically the anchor text, so in this case, you can take the usability route or the SEO route. The usability method would be to name the page, for example <a href="https://www.twylah.com/seopositiveltd">SEO Positive</a> sends you to our home page. However this opportunity could be used for SEO purposes and you could enter one of your keywords. This choice will vary depending on how you want to use your Google Profile, if you are using it simply for the SEO factor then no doubt you will be making the most of the anchor text, but you could also use this for <a href="../../reputation-management">reputation management</a>. However this is another story.</p>
<p>Social Networks like Google Plus offer you the links for free, which will help your <a href="https://plus.google.com/103584357129967335126/posts">SEO </a>efforts and help you rise through Google’s SERP’s. Opportunities like this need to be made the most of because they could make all of the difference in the rankings, and from a high ranking site like Google, it is an essential link grab that if anything is encouraged.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/social-media-optimisation" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Social Media Optimisation">Social Media Optimisation</a></h2>
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<p><small>November 21st, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p>Optimising your social media profile is very similar to a website. There are fields like bio and name which are like the page title and description, but the main advantage is that if you are regularly using these profiles, then your page will have fresh and regular content, which Google loves. So how do you make the most of this opportunity?</p>
<p>Firstly, these profiles will naturally rank quite high when searching the name of the profile in Google. If there is a consistency in the profile names, for example all of our profiles are named either <a href="/">SEO </a>Positive or <a href="https://www.twitter.com/seopositiveltd">SEO Positive LTD</a>, these naturally rank. However, if we want our Twitter, Facebook and Google plus profiles to pop up when someone searches the name <a href="https://plus.google.com/103584357129967335126/posts">SEO Positive</a>, how do we do that?</p>
<p><a href="../../link-building">Link building</a>, it is a very simple technique that works with websites and also social media profiles. If you or your company has a blog, throw a link in to your profile, for example you can mention the word Twitter, and link your Twitter profile to that. If you want to take the more extreme route, you can use an anchor text link with your business name. This is the best thing you can do to optimise your profiles. By making an effort of linking to your profiles in each of your blogs, even if they are guest posts, then your profiles will rank higher because of this.</p>
<p>Having your social media profiles rank higher is great for things like <a href="../../reputation-management">reputation management</a>, because it makes your profiles more visible to potential customers which will not only help increase your following, but also help your customers get to know you and your company a little better.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Because your own company name is not a very competitive key term, so you should see results quite soon, and if you make a conscious effort to send links in the direction of your social media profiles, then your profiles will stay up there and not only help build your fan base or following, but help build and maintain your current reputation.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-plus-business-support" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Plus, Business Support">Google Plus, Business Support</a></h2>
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<p><small>November 9th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p><a href="#"></a>Yesterday we were all made aware of the long awaited release for Google Plus, but we need to think whether there is much point spending a lot of time designing and creating another page, when you already have a Facebook page. There is one feature that puts Google Plus’ pages in another league to Facebook and their Fan pages.</p>
<p>Hangouts where one of the major features of Google +, even when there were not business pages available, it allowed up to 10 people to chat using video and audio and even more people to be able to join by text chat. This can really benefit a lot of different type of people and pages, but in terms of pages and businesses, it can become a great asset for many reasons.</p>
<p>My first example would be a support feature. The hangout can be started by the page and simply name the room as support. Then any customer or potential customer that has a question or needs help can join the room and ask for help accordingly. Because of the video chat capabilities, face to face interaction is possible, but not only that, demonstrations can also be shown. If a customer for example, does not know how to use their product, then the customer services in the hangouts can show exactly what to do.</p>
<p>On top of that, if a business is releasing a new product or maybe a new <a href="/">SEO </a>Package something along those lines, then hangouts can be used to demonstrate the product and build up hype. Plus, if customers are in the hangout, then they can ask questions directly about it that specifically intrigues them. This means that customers will have the opportunity to get tailored information instantly.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Of course there are a few more examples, and really the sky is the limit in this case. Each business will use hangouts differently but they are there and they can be a great selling point, not only that, it increases customer service standards and creates a relationship between the business and the customer. I think hangouts ia a great feature, and the fact that pages can use them too is great! Definitely one more reason why Google Plus Pages are more resourceful than Facebook Fan Pages.</p>
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<p class="postmetadata">Tags: <a href="../../blog/tag/google" rel="tag">Google</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/hangout" rel="tag">hangout</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/medi" rel="tag">medi</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/media" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/network" rel="tag">network</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/networks" rel="tag">networks</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/plus" rel="tag">plus</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/socia" rel="tag">socia</a>, <a href="../../blog/tag/social" rel="tag">social</a><br/> Posted in <a href="../../blog/category/google" title="View all posts in Google" rel="category tag">Google</a>, <a href="../../blog/category/social-media" title="View all posts in Social Media" rel="category tag">Social Media</a></p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-plus-page-released" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Plus Page Released">Google Plus Page Released</a></h2>
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<p><small>November 8th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p><a href="#"></a><a href="../../blog/category/google">Google </a>Plus has finally released the ability to create pages! The long awaited moment is finally here and now Google Plus can be used for businesses.</p>
<p>G+ released a video, as they religiously do whenever something is released, showing how having your business on Google Plus can be beneficial. It explains that it enables you to connect more with your customers, or even potential customers and build a relationship with them, creating one of the best possible customers to brand relationships available.</p>
<p>Tools like Hangouts and Circles can still be used even for the pages, which means that businesses can actually hang out with their customers. This is a great opportunity and has an endless list of possibilities, for example a question and answer session online, or an instructional video where customers can ask for help there and then.</p>
<p>This hangout feature creates convenience with customer service and provides a platform where it can be as close to real life as possible.</p>
<p>In the next few days I will be optimizing a Google Plus page for <a href="/">SEO </a>Positive and oversee how my efforts have increased positions and so on. From what I have seen so far, Google Pages are put together very well in the sense that they are extremely similar to the Google + profiles, however they can represent a business and in my opinion they are better than Facebook pages because of the possibilities that are available currently.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-plus-optimization-a-case-study-part-5" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Plus Optimization, A Case Study, Part 5">Google Plus Optimization, A Case Study, Part 5</a></h2>
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<p><small>October 19th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p>This addition to the case study is a revision on how many people have you in their Circles. The last time I measured this, the <a href="https://www.twylah.com/seopositiveltd">SEO Positive</a> profile was added to 25 people, it now stands at 65 which is just over twice as much. For those that have not read the previous additions, here is <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study">part 1</a>, <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-–-a-case-study-continued">part 2</a>, <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study-part-3">part 3</a> and <a href="../../blog/google-plus-optimization-a-case-study-part-4-2">part 4</a>.</p>
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<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">63</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">74</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+11</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>It would seem that all of the key words, except from SEO, have acquired a sturdy position in the rankings, the term <a href="/">SEO </a>has shot up quite a bit and the increase in Circles must have played a part in this.</p>
<p>I wanted to see the competitor’s profiles and inspect how many people have added them and the list is as follows.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="top">Key Word</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">Position</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">Number of Adds into others Circles</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">695</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">1295</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="205" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="205" valign="top">281</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>There is clearly a correlation that states the more people that have added you, the higher you will show. This however, is clearly not one of the only factors because second place has twice the amount as position one. It is something that I think has an effect but there are other factors that make a difference.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-plus-optimization-a-case-study-part-4-2" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google Plus Optimization, A Case Study, Part 4">Google Plus Optimization, A Case Study, Part 4</a></h2>
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<p><small>October 18th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p>Another update on the ever growing case study, <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study">part 1</a>, <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-–-a-case-study-continued">part 2</a>, <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study-part-3">part 3</a> for those who have missed them. - This time I will experiment with Circles. To be more specific, if you have someone added, will they rank higher for their keywords. I will check all positions before with a fresh account and also check with an account that only has the <a href="/">SEO </a>Positive account in their circles.</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">74</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">74</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>These results are quite interesting. It seems that having someone in your circles does not help ranking factors. Those who have been keeping up with our previous additions to the case study will have noticed the drop in all positions. This may be because of the name change from SEO Positive to <a href="https://plus.google.com/108919010703043112939/posts">Lewis SEO Positive</a>, I had to change because of Google’s name policy, I also had a look at the competition and they may not be as active as my profile but they do have a lot more people who have added them into their Circles, which could be the cause.</p>
<p>Now I need to test out the ‘friends of friends’ effect on the situation.</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">72</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">74</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">3</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Having a friend of a friend that has the profile added does somewhat effect the results. Not extensively since the SEO Positive profile is still at the bottom of the rankings. However it does make a slight difference and for those niches that are slightly less competitive they may make a huge difference.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Whether you’re in someone’s Circles or not (even a mutual friends’ Circle) it doesn’t seem to make a huge amount of difference, so my advice would be to not spend much time worrying about this factor because chances are it won’t make much of an impact.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study-part-3" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google + Optimization, a Case Study, Part 3">Google + Optimization, a Case Study, Part 3</a></h2>
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<p><small>October 14th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p>Since my optimization efforts yesterday, I have had a lot of people add me into their Circles, no doubt because of the mass circling I did in my last update. To be exact 25 people added my SEO Positive profile to their Circles. Also as a little side note, <a href="../../blog/category/google">Google </a>picked up on my profile name, which was SEO Positive. I thought it was ok to have this but I was forced to change it to my actual name which is Lewis SEO Positive, a little cheeky I know but worth a go right? I have also set a nickname as SEO Positive, instead of SEO Services.</p>
<p>For those that have missed my previous updates, here is <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study">part 1</a>, and here is <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-–-a-case-study-continued">part 2</a>.</p>
<p>25 people have added the SEO Positive profile into their Circles, a high majority of the new connections where already in my cCrcles which would most likely be the reason for the mass connections.</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">59</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">54</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">-5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Unfortunately, there has been a negative impact for the term SEO, 5 positions where lost. All other positions have stayed put which is great. I think the position drop could be down to the profile name change but that is not certain, competitors could be overtaking the <a href="/">SEO </a>Positive profile.</p>
<p>Something I did notice is that the profile now shows up in the “Everything” section and looks a little something like this.</p>
<p><a href="#"></a></p>
<p>This is great exposure because it’s the default option to appear when searching, as far as I know we show up like this in the search results for the terms: SEO UK, SEO Companies and SEO Services. As I have not noticed this before, I did not even know this type of listing was possible, I cannot say what has caused this. However these 3 terms I show in position 1 in the people listings, which leads me to believe that it is strongly connected.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Being in other users’ Circles appear to not have an effect on the rankings, however it will have an effect on whoever has added me and the results that appear. I imagine mutual friends will experience some change too, but I will look into this in the near future.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-optimization-–-a-case-study-continued" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google + Optimization, A Case Study, Part 2">Google + Optimization, A Case Study, Part 2</a></h2>
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<p><small>October 13th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p><a href="#"></a>As a continuation from yesterday’s <a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study">Google + article</a>, I think I may have stumbled upon another factor that affects ranking; it is fairly simple and has more benefits than just a higher position.</p>
<p>The new factor is simply adding people. I know this sounds silly but I added everyone for the term SEO and SEO UK, which got me about 250 people in my circles. Now I know this does seem a little spammy, but it isn’t at all. You can follow as many people as you want on <a href="../../blog/category/twitter">Twitter</a> and you can do the same on Google +. It is a worry to have on your profile, “SEO Positive has 250 in their circles and 5 people have SEO Positive in their circles.” But you can hide this information from users so feel free to add as many as you want!</p>
<p>Like I said, I have added all profiles that come up for <a href="/">SEO </a>and SEO UK. Now I will use my account with no history to measure the new found rankings. FYI the previous positions were from the last case study which was before I added anyone into my circles.</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">54</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">61</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">150</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+149</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>From this report we can see that SEO services has shot right up the rankings and is now at the top, SEO is THE most competitive term out there in this industry, but it is good that some movement has been made.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>It seems adding relevant users has a positive effect in terms of rankings. Adding a huge list of people can also help with exposure, connection and if there are a lot of users that add you to their circles then it looks good on your profile.</p>
<p>The next thing I will be looking into is content (updates) and to see if they have make a difference. I will be doing one a day and I will record the results in an article next week.</p>
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<h2><a href="../../blog/google-optimization-a-case-study" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Google + Optimization, A Case Study">Google + Optimization, A Case Study</a></h2>
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<p><small>October 12th, 2011 <!-- by admin --></small></p>
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<p><a href="#"></a>Google + is the social network that just keeps expanding at a rapid rate. the last figure that was released told us that the site currently has a user base of 50 million, which is an astonishing statistic. It must be mentioned that G+’s rival, Facebook, has acquired more than 800 million users in its lifetime. Nevertheless, Google + is rocketing in terms of how active it is becoming. If Plus does become the dominant network, then businesses will be flocking across to join, so I am going to show you how to optimize your business profile so you can show up in high positions for key terms.</p>
<p>I have created a brand new profile for SEO Positive as an example. This profile has only a display picture, the profile contains no content (for example media or posts). I have also checked all of our keywords and we do not rank for any of them. Now I will do some optimization in the appropriate sections and see what difference it makes.</p>
<p>It may also be noteworthy that I have created another brand new profile with absolutely no history to measure the rankings in a completely unbiased way.</p>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>I started off with the introduction section of the profile, not necessarily keyword stuffing, but I put in what I considered enough and made the box legible and of a proper standard of English. The introduction is as follows:</p>
<p>“SEO Positive<strong> </strong>is the award winning SEO Company based in the UK.<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.twylah.co.uk/seopositiveltd" target="_blank"><strong>SEO Positive</strong></a><strong> </strong>offers ethical SEO Services<strong> </strong>that are guaranteed to show brilliant results in <a href="/" target="_blank"><strong>SEO</strong></a>. For more information on SEO Positive, go to <a href="/" target="_blank">https://www.seopositiveltd.co.uk</a> or follow their <a href="../../blog" target="_blank">blog</a> or even their <a href="https://www.twitter.com/seopositiveltd" target="_blank">Twitter</a> profile.”</p>
<p>Now before I added this section we did not rank at all, as soon I had made changes to the profile, the rankings had changed too</p>
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<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">17</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<p>Just by adding this one box you can see the SEO Positive profile has shot right up, and although it isn’t ranking for everything, it is ranking for some key terms. Obviously the term “SEO” will be the hardest to rank for but we will add another section and see what happens.</p>
<h2>Bragging Rights</h2>
<p>In the next section, “bragging rights” I tend to write something similar to the introduction but put in some achievements to make it fit the context of the section. So my submission to bragging rights is “SEO Positive has won multiple awards as an SEO Company, we provide our SEO Services to a wide range of businesses all over the world, including the UK, which is where SEO Positive is based.”</p>
<p>Now that this section has been added, we will look at the difference:</p>
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<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
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<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
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<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">17</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">17</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>From this evidence, it is safe to say that there are no “bragging rights” here. This section may have some effect but it is clear that it is miniscule and hardly worth the time.</p>
<h2>Occupation</h2>
<p>Now I am going to try and add the appropriate occupation and see what effect that has: ‘SEO Services’.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">98</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">17</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Adding the occupation seems to have had a mixed set of results. The bonus is that nothing has fallen but some positions have stayed put. ‘SEO’ has raised and is now on the listings, yet ‘SEO Services’ is holding its ground.</p>
<h2>Employment</h2>
<p>We now approach the section of Employment. I have added the name of the company (SEO Positive) and for occupation I entered SEO Services. SEO Services is the keyword that the SEO Positive profile is not ranking for; this keyword also fits the context of the field quite well.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">98</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">6</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">7</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">-1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">4</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">150</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The employment section has had a surprising impact. Everything is now ranking, most search terms are rising, ‘SEO company’ fell by 1 rank but this could be due to competitors or other uncontrollable reasons. All in all the completion of the employment section has had a great effect.</p>
<h2>Other Names</h2>
<p>Education comes next but I want to take the white hat method in optimizing my Google+ profile, so I will leave this blank as it is irrelevant. Then comes the phone number, so I have entered SEO Positive’s office number. The ‘relationship’ and ‘looking for’ are also immaterial so the next field that can be used for SEO will be the ‘other names’ section. I am going to put all keywords in this section.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">98</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">6</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">6</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">11</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">4</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">-5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">150</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Adding this other names section seems to have had a negative effect, my thoughts of this decline in positions is because Google has to index all of these changes, which resulted in massive jumps in positions, especially for ‘SEO’ and ‘SEO Services’. Adding the other name would appear to have had a positive effect on ‘SEO Company’ but the 1 position increase doesn’t make up for the rest of the losses.</p>
<h2>Nicknames</h2>
<p>As the end of optimization approaches, we come to the ‘nicknames’ section. I have set it as ‘SEO Services’ because again, this is a term that hasn’t ranked.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">6</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">10</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">9</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">+8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">150</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Just adding the nickname section has had a great effect on the rankings, I think it is safe to say that ‘SEO’ and ‘SEO Services’ are going to be very competitive, like in the real Google SERP’s.</p>
<h2>Profiles, Links and Contributions</h2>
<p>There is only one more thing that can be done in terms of the profile, which is adding other profiles - websites that you contribute to and recommended links. I will add all of these at the same time as it is far too fiddly to do them one by one, also I will link to only SEO Positives’ profiles, the site and all blogs associated.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Movement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">150</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>From these results we can see that no difference had been made by adding links or profiles. It seems that these parts of the profile are purely for the user.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>All of these factors have had different levels of impact, but based on the differences that have been displayed, here is a list of each factor and the severity of their importance:</p>
<p>Introduction - *****</p>
<p>Bragging Rights - *</p>
<p>Occupation - **</p>
<p>Employment - ****</p>
<p>Other Names - *</p>
<p>Nicknames - ****</p>
<p>Profiles Links Contributions - *</p>
<p>So I can conclude that the most important sections of the Google Plus profile are the Introduction, Employment and the Nicknames. However I would not advise leaving the other parts out as it may result in weaker positions; also it lowers how useful your profile will be to users viewing it.</p>
<p>As a revision of all of the positions, I want to check the positions once more as the positions would have had time to settle and we can take all of the optimization efforts and put them together.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">Keywords</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Current Position</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">Previous Position</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">61</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO UK</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">UK SEO</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Company</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">2</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Companies</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">1</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="154" valign="top">SEO Services</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
<td width="154" valign="top">N/A</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>If we look back to where we started before we even optimized the profile, SEO Positive has raised a substantial amount. Taking into account that this profile is brand new and has no posts or media, it has acquired great positions. The only way to increase the ranking is to keep the profile active and consciously include the correct keywords in posts. As time goes on we should definitely see an even bigger rise in positions.</p>
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