Google+ Pages and Direct Connect

Google+ added a few more features this week with some popular requested feature including business page. Google+ was initially a limited registration but has since opened its registration to general public a couple of months ago. For those who does not have a Google+ account, you can register at plus.google.com. Here are some of the newly Google+ features available.

Google+ Pages is specially designed for business. You can create a Google+ Page to post updates, promotion and news for your business. It allows you to build relationship with your customer and allow to recommend your business, product and services to their friends with the Google +1 button. Here is the link to the business page. google.com/+/business






Google+ Badge is a small icon to let people add your page to their circles without leaving your website, and start getting updates from your business via Google+. Visit Google+ badge configuration tool.

Google Direct Connect is a feature that lets people quickly navigate to your Google+ page when using Google search. By using the search query like '+youtube' or '+gmail', it takes you directly to YouTube Google+ page, or Gmail Google+ page. Find more detail information how to use Google Direct Connect here.



And here is my attempt of Google Page,