All that really matters is if you get traffic. Lets say Google+ doesn't help you with SEO, but it still gets some quality traffic to your sites and blogs. That's a good thing, right?
Google+ supposedly doesn't directly affect SEO. I say supposedly because your Google+ shares can actually come up in search results now. This shows us that Google is indexing our shares links etc. If they do not directly impact our SEO yet, then I'm sure it will happen in the future. So, it would make sense to Join and get active now. For sure it will help you by driving traffic to your site. Especially, if you use Communities which will help with the two most important aspects of SEO, Traffic and Backlinks...
Google+ does however weigh better PA for their channel over other social media channels even though its not widely used.
Google+ is best for use in local SEO. And it is helpful for you when you plan to SEO your local business by adding your business on Google.
Not really. Google always wants their products sell the most. Google+ will appears on search results you know. Means it's helpful for SEO. Previous time, yeah Google+ is sucks. But now, it's a MUST for your site especially BLOG.
You can say that, but Google + is directly impacting rankings in Google. Nothing else matter for people using search engines, if they get good results.
Yes, social metrics does fact in search result ranking, but as far as you can see reading 2014 ranking factors by searchmetrics, google+ receive the most value in social media field for determining rank power. See the screenshot.
Google+ plays an important role in Booting your website ranking. But you need to do this with regular SEO practice.
Google+ can be a good way to increase value of your website and of course with other social media websites.
But I don't think so. All social media Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest etc increase our bounce rates. As people don't like the links we share, so they just visit our website and just ran away. So in my opinion we should not post blogs or articles links on these social media. What you say guys???
Even though Google Plus is considered to be a "ghost town," it doesn't mean you should ignore it. Though we don't if Google+ is impacting the results in SEO and some of us are merely speculating, we do know that Google+ affects PageRank flow, which they do on purpose.
If you are saying that Google+ is best for SEO because it is Google and it allows dofollow backlinks then I will tell you that, it is not true. Google+ is a social networking site and I believe that like any other social networking sites Google recommended those link submission sites to be set to "nofollow". Why? Because social networking sites are high quality sites that are prone to spamming and dropping of links. So, the benefit of using social networking site is more on increasing site's online presence.