5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+

Google’s new social networking platform – Google+ is simply amazing as a networking and collaborative platform. It gives you enough opportunity to maintain and manage your social network effectively for the social and business reasons. Since the advent of Google + in June 2011 it has been doing great. However, by managing and optimizing your brand pages for SEO purposes do not simply mean that you are managing your Google + community. By knowing a couple of effective tips and tricks as discussed in the article can certainly help you in managing your community on Google +. The below mentioned top five tips would guide you to manage your community efficiently.

1). Keep checking your notifications and respond

There are many people who do check their notifications but do not often respond. So this could be your basic tip, check all your notifications when you start your day and respond to as much of them as possible. By doing so, you would certainly get an opportunity to let people know that you have been out there too often and do care everyone what they have been saying by responding the various notifications. For instance, if someone shares your post, you can simply thank him or her, if someone is adding someone to your circle, you can check it and add if found worthy and if someone is mentioning you in any of your comments, simply read the post and even jump over the said comment as well.

2). Search for your brand or name or keywords and respond

The next tip to remember while you are interacting with the community is to check what people are talking about you. If you run a search, you simply can find these people, posts, pages, hangouts and so on. By just filtering your ‘show me’ at Google + posts would let you know what people are talking about you. You have a number of SEO tools which can be useful to reach out and thank people who are seen sharing a post. The other way is to simply search for your brand name and check what people are talking about you. So the idea is to search for the talks which your community is speaking about you and your brand and respond. You should be well informed about what your community is speaking about you.

3). Check the Ripples for your recent content

The good thing about Google + is that is has added some upgrades to Ripples since it became the talk of the town. Now, you can see all the shares for any particular page you have shared in the past and not just the individual share’s Ripples. For instance, if you see that you have around 25 Google + shares but have only four shares from your own post, you just see the Ripples on your voila and post but you can see all of them. Also, you have the option of adding any URL to see and check the Ripples. If you go this way, sky is the limit. Hence it is advisable to track all your Ripples and posts to find out your consistent influencers. The Ripple page shows the top influencers for each and every post.

4). Try a Hangout or chat

The good thing about Google + is that the interaction with people is really simple and fast as they are so easy to link directly to anyone. In this way, this makes it a cool place to trigger a chat or try something similar to these lines. You can therefore try out things like Q&A (question and answer) sessions over Google + with your team joining to address the questions. Beside, in order to reach out to your clients you can also try a hangout. Both the hangouts and chats give you better opportunities to leverage your brand in your community.

5). Mention the other brands and people directly

As you carry out checking out different posts talking about your brand other businesses also do the same. So, in order to make your presence felt, you need to do better. To do things effectively, it is better to link directly to your community members, blog authors, speakers at different events and so on. In this way, when people get any personal notification where they have been mentioned, they will certainly take some sort of action which will eventually benefit you.

The above five tips can certainly play a key role in managing your Google+ community and thus help you in communicating with your customers, fans and audiences. These tactics would help you in engaging people and keep them motivated for you.

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