More Tips from Spencer Wade

More Tips from Spencer Wade

Originally shared by Spencer Wade

Highlights of the G+ Help File Settings Tab: A Few Last Items

On our journey through the Google+ Settings, we’ve discovered all the helpful features to be found hiding within the drop-down and tried to give at least a bare-bones description of each. This brings us to the final three items to be found here: Teens & Google+, See How Influential Your G+ Profile Is, and Search in G+. The first, Teens & Google+ has already been discussed in a previous post, so we’ll move past it to the next item in the list, but not before including, once more, the link to Google’s Resources (https://goo.gl/WfBxa1). After all, there’s not a single thing found in any Help File that carries more importance than the life of a single young person.

Now, let’s look at the next item in the list – your profile’s influence. This is a strange way of looking at it and, at least from my perspective, a flawed one as well. Unless you’re promoting a brand or your business, the idea that your profile is influential seems like a stretch. Influence in this case is just another word for popular and we all know popularity doesn’t always equate to influence. In fact, some profiles are popular for exactly the opposite reason, so judging your profile’s worth based off of numbers generated by an algorithm seems a bit emotionless and calculated for a social media platform. But, it’s available for you if you want to see the data and it may surprise you to see you G+ profile laid bare so. I know it surprised me and I use analytics every day in my work.

The final item in the list is instructions for using Search in G+. This is an extremely useful function for tracking down all the goodies you’re interested in and can save you a ton of time. We’ve all seen an incredible post and wanted to share it with others, but lost it somewhere in our feed before we shared it. This is especially common when your feed is filled with actively posting users. Using Search makes this so much easier and faster – not to mention foolproof. This is one of those functions you’ll find yourself using again and again and wonder how you ever got by without it. You can find posts, people, pages, collections, and communities – basically, anything and everything G+ has to offer. That’s a pretty good deal, if you ask me.

Source: https://support.google.com/plus#topic=6320388

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