{"id":2941,"date":"2012-08-29T05:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2012-08-25T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T14:47:01","slug":"make-sure-you-are-fully-integrated-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/08\/29\/make-sure-you-are-fully-integrated-with-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sure You Are Fully Integrated With Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently read a great article found at SiteProNews on Google+ website integration and wanted to point it out to you as it really has some great tips on how to fully integrate your site with Google+.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the tips in a nutshell, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepronews.com\/2012\/08\/12\/google-authorship-for-dummies-a-spn-exclusive\/?utm_source=newsletter+-+2012-08-14&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Article%2BUpdate\">please make sure to read the full article<\/a> as it is chock full of excellent easy to do tips.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure to add a great headshot of yourself to your Google+ profile. It will be shown in search results. Use an image 250 pixels wide by 250 pixels tall.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on the ability for others to see your +1&#8217;s in your Google+ profile. (Read the article for the easy steps.) You can only do this on your personal page not a business page.<\/li>\n<li>Cross link your Google+ profile and website. This is a crucial step and make sure to read the article carefully about the re=&#8221;author&#8221; attribute as this is what gives you the Google+ juice that you want and need for SEO.<\/li>\n<li>Consider using a head tag link reference to your personal Google+ page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The big kicker is that it is really hard to juice up your Google+ Business page. Google+ is really set up to link and cross link to your personal profile. Business pages are really an after thought at this point which hopefully will change as Google+ realizes its full organic placement and SEO potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently read a great article found at SiteProNews on Google+ website integration and wanted to point it out to you as it really has some great tips on how to fully integrate your site with Google+. Here are the tips in a nutshell, but please make sure to read the full article as it is chock full of excellent easy to do tips. Make sure to add a great headshot of yourself to your Google+ profile. It will be shown in search results. Use an image 250 pixels wide by 250 pixels tall. Turn on the ability for others to see your +1&#8217;s in your Google+ profile. (Read the article for the easy steps.) You can only do this on your personal page not a business page. Cross link your Google+ profile and website. This is a crucial step and make sure to read the article carefully about the re=&#8221;author&#8221; attribute as this is what gives you the Google+ juice that you want and need for SEO. Consider using a head tag link reference to your personal Google+ page. The big kicker is that it is really hard to juice up your Google+ Business page. Google+ is really set up to link and cross link to your personal profile. Business pages are really an after thought at this point which hopefully will change as Google+ realizes its full organic placement and SEO potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[438,457],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus","tag-google","tag-google-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}