What's your take on the latest inclusion in the hub of 100s of social networks out there. Does having a Google+ business page or profile help in getting higher rankings? I know it has an effect on personalized search results but is there any effect in organic rankings too?
A few tests says that yes, that G+ is somewhat useful for SEO. Notwithstanding, I would wait to see more case studies to think it is certainly true.
Google+ does help you in some way, it's organic backlink which helps you to rank higher because the more backlinks you get the higher your website gets so it does help you somewhat if you have a website as your homepage on your Google profile and then make wall posts of each articles you made if you are a blogger.
I tend to look at SEO and SMM as 2 different things. But if Google+ helps me with SEO and site rankings, it's a nice added benefit.
Google+ is a product of Google. So, its natural that it will somehow impact your SEO works and help you to sustain organic traffic.
Google + is one of the top factors considered by Google now to rank websites in SERP results and now also mentioned as ranking factor on various SEO blogs.
Google+ has nothing to do with search engine rankings and the people who said that Google+ affects rankings is just a myth.
The answer is Yes. Google has been using Google+ to discover new content, and many web professionals have discovered that URLs shared on Google+ are crawled and indexed very quickly. So, it is good to start building relationship on Google+.
Yes it does...though the results are not guaranteed. Obviously Google+ is owned by Google, so it works in your favor to have a Google profile. You can benefit by linking your WP blog to your Google+ account - increasing the likelihood that your posts get ranked high with your own little profile picture (ensuring your entry stands out). Furthermore, whatever piece of content you post on Google+, it stands a better chance of getting indexed & seen by thousands. If your content is linked to your blog or website, potentially that could mean thousands of visitors... Also sync your content on G+ with youtube & also post on Blogger.com. Blogger & Youtube are both also owned by Google, so again - that means you're opening up more avenues of traffic to your site.
I've seen more and more studies coming out that correlate G+ activity with higher Google rankings. But...just because there's a correlation, doesn't mean that it's the root cause. However, I personally think it'd be silly to ignore G+ as a marketing or SEO platform, simply because even if it doesn't effect organic rankings today, it's a pretty safe assumption to assume it will sometime in the future. Why wouldn't Google use their own social network to influence their own search engine? Seems like a no-brainer
Yes, with no second thought Google+ helps in organic results for your website or blog. But, the fact that just posting comments will result in your favor is just your wrong perception. You have to post something unique and what others would like. Also, engaging with your circle members for a post will bring you more organic results. The more peoples like,comment or share your story the more better rankings you can get.
Obviously it does. Google+ gives high ratting backlinks towards your site. So you may use it for increase your place in organic search.
yes but is the simplest way Google+ affect search results with personalization. For instanceif any following you at Google+, chances are that they will see your rank in Google search is going way up. To illustrate, let us seen at an example:
Yes it does! If you regularly post quality stuff on Google + not only your personal profile will ranking and showing up but your business page will also starts ranking up across the Google SERPs.