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Create a Google+ Fan Page

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Individual Google+ pages have been around for a while now but brand pages are a recent development. Creating a fan page is super easy and operates in much the same way as a Facebook fan page. So now I'm going to show you how to create one.

First of all navigate to https://plus.google.com/pages/create

You'll be faced with this page.



Select product or brand and fill in the details then press create.

Next you'll be taken to the screen below. Fill in a little information about your page and add a profile photo. Click continue.

 



Then press finish.



Fill in more details about your site on the about tab on your new profile page.

It really is worth your while having a Google+ as recent changes mean pages are searchable. So Google+ really can be a good source of traffic.

Now you'll want to let your readers know about your page by adding a badge to your site.

Go to https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/config

Fill in your google+ page ID



You'll find your Google+ ID in the address bar of your page like below:



 

Adding the ID will generate a piece of code like this:

<!-- Place this tag in the <head> of your document -->
<link href="https://plus.google.com/115639686051747826824" rel="publisher" /><script type="text/javascript">
(function()
{var po = document.createElement("script");
po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true;po.src = "https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js";
var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();</script>

<!-- Place this tag where you want the badge to render -->
<g:plus href="https://plus.google.com/115639686051747826824" size="badge"></g:plus>

You'll need to add the first paragraph of code to the HTML page of your site (Dashboard>Template>Edit HTML>Proceed. Add the code just before the </head> tag.

Now add the second paragraph of code into a html widget if your on Blogger or in a text widget if you use wordpress.

That is all there is to it you have now created a Google+ page for your blog.

 

4 comments:

  1. okreko (@okreko) (@okreko)27 January 2012 at 17:00

    Blog Post: Create a Google+ Fan Page http://t.co/dFZMjDoT

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  2. Kat M28 January 2012 at 12:12

    Thanks for this. I honestly had no idea that Google + had a Fan Page. Definitely have to set myself one up :)

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  3. Katie Chutzpah29 January 2012 at 04:00

    Find Google + REALLY confusing and hard to operate - something the techies constructing it should realise for normals. Got as far as the code part here in your instructions but have NO CLUE where to put the two pieces of code and which parts - all of it or part of it?. Head? Sorry, really don't speak code and too scared to mess up whatc just looks like lines and lines of gobbeldygook to me.

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  4. Alison Harriman20 February 2012 at 02:48

    Ok, never mind. I seem to have it working now. The badge is showing in the sidebar. Idiot moi wasn't signed into the developer page so the code being generated wasn't correct.

    Thanks again!

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