My brother and I own a local contractor business and I'm looking to increase Google+'s on our site (so ideally they visit our site and then hit the Google +1 sign). We get about 3 emails every day with customers looking for our services. We have a standard reply we do asking a few questions and such but I feel like we could do so much more with our reply since the customer is already interested in us. I was thinking of putting a little footer or something in our reply emails stating that we are running a raffle (each month or so) and giving away something like, say a $250 visa gift card or something). To enter the raffle, they would just click a link in the email and then +1 our site. Questions: 1. If I send them to a landing page (welcome to our raffle) which is not listed in Google (noindex) and instruct them to be sure they are logged into Google and then +1 that page by clicking a +1 button.... Will that +1 be just as if they +1 the home page or do I need them to go to the home page and then +1 from there? Remember this page would not be indexed in Google. 2. Any other suggestions to get people who reach out to us to +1 our site? Thank you for your time, John
I am not sure I quite understand your question, so if I am amiss, please, forgive my ignorance. I own two community pages and that's one of the ways how I am getting +1's. Here's one of them: https://plus.google.com/communities/105619834333648877051 As you can see, I have my domain name listed there and I have a post pinned to the top, so it's always in your face. Just create a community page for your business, invite users to join it. Promote it regularly. I am sure you'll get some following that way.
Seriously I didn't understand your question. If you want to try get MAXIMUM +1 from email marketing you can get.
Post interesting and attractive content on your page. Add people from your area, comment and be active on your page. This way you will see significant traffic and customers coming to your page.
I agree, build authority of your profile by posting great, topical content that encourages G+ users to engage with you, share yours posts and link to your profile. As with everything related to Google, it's all about posting great content.