Quality Traffic from Google Plus?

Google+ is a new addition to the social networking scene. However, even though Google+ is relatively new it is creating quite a buzz with around 25 million users having joined the networking site by beginning of August 2011. Thus, it can be a very effective tool in attracting quality traffic to your website or blog. Samantha talks about it here.

Increasing traffic on your site remains one of the central concerns for any blogger or online business owner. The best way to ensure maximum traffic on your site is by being highly ranked on search engines such as Google. Improving SEO works the best when it comes to this. However the Google+ button can help a lot to further improve your search engine result pages.

Google+ announced +1 button to offer personalized search results. The button is available for third party websites and works in the same manner as Facebook ‘Like’ button. You can see the +1 button along with the search results on Google. This confirms that the site is trusted and even popular to some extent.

By posting your links on Google+, you will prompt interaction in the forum about your link. Google+ offers an easy interface with simple mechanism to facilitate interaction among people on the networking site. So when you post your link you are very likely to receive comments from people or a simple +1. You can even have referrals to your blog by them. Many bloggers have already started using this tool and are experiencing great results. This is further going to improve as membership on the site increases. *** Note – Don’t spam your links. Share interesting or helpful links you come across to other sites, too.

The +1 button is like an indicator of quality search and builds confidence in the user to visit the site. The button along will improve your rank in the search engine result pages and also give you credibility. People would know this is the site people have been visiting and have also appreciated the contents. That’s one reason it is becoming a very practical, as well as potent tool in improving traffic on your site.

With more and more people joining Google+ every day, it will become all the more powerful and increase your visibility on the web. When your site link is being circulated in the forums, people will be more likely to believe that it is a trusted and respected site. Hence, when you combine this with the largest search engine, you uncover a huge opportunity in driving traffic to your site.

Another impressive thing about Google+ is their feature called Circles. With this feature you can arrange your contacts in Circles. For example you can keep all your family in one circle, your friends in another, and your professional contacts in another. If someone falls into more than one ‘category’, he can be added to all of them. Hence, whenever you share something on the site, you have an option of sharing it with just a particular Circle. This can be very helpful in reaching the right target for a particular message. This is not possible on Facebook or Twitter as any updates by you is visible to all the contacts in your list.