Don't Spam Yourself on Google Plus
Many newbies who have created a Google
Plus profile or page are anxious to share their links in Google Plus
communities. This is a good thing, mainly because the G+ community
membership usually far outnumbers the followers you have in your
social circles.
- Google Plus limits the number of followers to 5000 for personal profiles. (See Side Note below.)
- Whereas, I've seen some G+ communities with over 50,000 members. Thus, there is more opportunity for exposure and hopefully getting traffic to your website or blog, if you share links via the communities.
* Important Social Media Tip!*
When you share the same post in several G+ communities, you need to turn off the feature that allows your post to also show up in your public post stream. Otherwise, when people visit your G+ profile or page, they will see multiple entries of the same thing over and over and over. You actually give the impression that you're spamming yourself. It's a common mistake for newbies to make.
When you share the same post in several G+ communities, you need to turn off the feature that allows your post to also show up in your public post stream. Otherwise, when people visit your G+ profile or page, they will see multiple entries of the same thing over and over and over. You actually give the impression that you're spamming yourself. It's a common mistake for newbies to make.
I get my social media tips from Mike Allton, publisher of The Social Media Hat blog.
He says: Don't spam yourself!!
Then he explains how to stop the
insanity.
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Side Note: Mike Allton's G+ professional profile boasts over 186,000 followers. The business page or brand account associated with his website/blog, The Social Media Hat, has over 8,000 followers.
Google offers professional or business profiles (may or may not be for a price) and those profiles show that you can have more than 5K followers. I don't have the details. If you want to know more, search for “Google My Business”.
By the way: Have any of you ever seen spam in that many different varieties? I would love to try the Hot &Spicy.
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