Yes, Off course G+ is still considered as the powerful platform if you wish to drive maximum traffic and gain high page ranking.
Yes of course, It is beneficial for SEO. Google Plus gives do-follow link to our website and also helps in generating traffic.
Google+ is one of the most important websites of Social Media Marketing. As Google+ is a Google's product it will surely beneficial for you if you have built up very strong profile in Google+. To make your profile stronger you can create Communities, enlarge your circles, etc... This will surely help you.
Apart from Google+, if you link to other programs of Google, you would get good benefit, as they are programs of Google.
Obviously Google+ is the latest trends in SEO and everyone love to use it for their website and also by using they create an influences as well as become popular their site in social media market.
I think Google did a pretty good job with google +, but personally, I like google hangout so much. It makes it so easy for me to chat with a lot of my friends and business partners
Google+ has already about 500 Mio members and it is growing every day! But most I like google hangouts. ( http://medien.pr-gateway.de/5-tipps-google-in-der-unternehmenskommunikation/ )
No doubt about that. Now its very useful specially Google+ Communities. Most Google+ communities are active and the moderators are very careful to avoid spamming with unrelated posts on communities. Compare to Facebook groups Google+ communities are less spam and if we really active on communities we can find our related professionals easily, can make friendship with them and chance to grow our business. Google Hangouts wow its something great.
I agree with you, G+ is nowadays getting better response and prominence from users. It helps getting good response from targeted users.
Google SEO Ranking Activities Affect Google plus and 1 (Google plus one) as a whole has seen yields rise in rankings on Google plus. In particular, Google plus will take into account the number of shares, i.e. the authority of friends who share your content, and the location of friends interact with your content. Therefore, it is important to always be creating content that can be shared content on Google plus treated the same as all of the content on the website, it can have a page rank and can appear in the results search in a long period.
Google is doing some amazing things with Google+. Your SERP results are biased towards the posts from people in your circle. Simply amazing
Long story short… Automated content distribution via subscription will have your content posted on Google + without lifting an extra finger. Nuff said.
Google Plus is a product of Google and also it impacts Google Ranking too. With compare to facebook and twitter G+ becomes famous within very less time.
the fact of the matter is Google plus will help to increase rankings in search engine results pages the more you post to your Google + profile. Posting content on Facebook does not help to better search engine rankings but yet only help to get traffic minus back links. That's the concrete truth.