I made an amazing discovery that thrilled me to pieces this weekend. You know how you receive an email when someone adds you to one of their G+ circles? The email will ask if you want to add them to your circles. Well, you don’t even have to leave your email to do this – at least not in gmail! That’s right – you can add someone to your G+ Circles right from your email. Take a look:
Cute-Ecakes has put her mastermind to work again. This time, she has created a Blogger Follow Page Generator Tutorial.
If you are a blogger who administers group giveaways, you’ll want to check out this tutorial. It doesn’t matter what blog platform you’re using, nor does it matter what application is being used to gather giveaway entries, for one to put this generator in motion. The Blogger Follow Page Generator is to simplify all the copy and pasting occurred when creating a page with multiple links for entrants to follow outside of the Rafflecopter form (or other app).
One of the many screen shots in the tutorial
Head on over to this page to read the tutorial. Be sure to bookmark the page to reference at a later time. If you’d be so kind, would you help spread the word? Simply share the post with others. Cute-Ecakes would certainly appreciate it, as will the administrators of group giveaways who learn of the generator. Thanks! 🙂
Goodbye to GFC (Google Friend Connect) for many, and hello G+ – GFC’s replacement. Good enough except – are you in violation of Google’s G+ Button Policy in trying to get your site followed?
Google’s policy stipulates:
“Publishers may not direct users to click a Google+ Button for purposes of misleading users. Publishers may not promote prizes, monies, or monetary equivalents in exchange for Google+ Button clicks. For the avoidance of doubt, Publishers may direct users to a Google+ Button to enable content and functionality. When a Publisher directs users to a Google+ Button, the button action must be related to the Publisher or the Publisher’s content. For the +1 Button, the content or functionality that is enabled for the user must also be accessible to any of the user’s social connections who also enable it.”
I interpret this to mean – you better not host a giveaway asking entrants to follow your site via G+ or click the G+ button pertaining to that post. If you do, you risk suffering consequences by Google.
Quite frankly – it really bums me out that Google is being this way. I want Google to write to all companies that ask bloggers for their follower stats. I’m sure there are a lot of companies who have no clue what has transpired, although – they should have to deal with what we have to work with…it’s out of our hands. Ask our page ranks, FB followers, Twitter followers, and if they must – Alexa. They need to know it’s not fair game anymore. We can’t give stats for something we can’t work on actively. We’re just a handful of people trying to get our content read. We’re certainly not Google!
And this linky thing going around – I’m not impressed with that either. I see that as being similar to Picket Fences – doesn’t mean crap to companies. Alexa ratings – that’s not all it’s cracked up to be either. Aside from bloggers – who installs the Alexa tool bar? Heck, I never even heard of the site before I started blogging and I was always online doing something (no exaggeration) for several years before blogging came along.
Your thoughts?
*Please don’t think that I am scolding anyone as this post is being read – I’m not. I just saying that if you want people to visit your site, read your posts, join in on a hop, be a sponsor of a giveaway being hosted, become an affiliate, – then your site has to be friendly enough for people to stick around. And in my opinion – next to site visitors, the text piece is the most important piece of a site…wouldn’t you agree?
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