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How To Get More Google Plus Followers
OK, so you want to know how to get more Google Plus followers then do you? Well like the curator of the Museum of Unfunny Comedians said to Daniel Tosh, “You’ve come to the right place!” No but seriously, there’s nothing funny about that man…
Anyway, I’m not going to clutter this article up any further with what you’ve come to love from my astounding wit (modest, right?) and I’ll just get on with giving you some tips on what you’re here to learn.
(Oh, and be sure to enter your name and email below for some juicy secrets on this new form of social marketing…)
1. Harvest Them From Your Existing Sources
To anyone that knows even the smallest microbial morsel about marketing, this should have been the first obvious thing to do. Namely, tell everyone on your Facebook, Twitter, newsletter, blog, carrier pigeon network, knitting group and anywhere else that you already have influence that you’re now on Google Plus. I shouldn’t have to explain to you why this is a good idea, but in short it’s a fast, free and easy way to begin your following on this site. And to be honest, I can’t really think of any reason why you wouldn’t do this immediately. So go on, go do it!
2. How To Get More Google Plus Followers With Blog Posts
The second way of how to get more followers on Google plus is again quite simple, but I guarantee will be overlooked by many. If you look above in this post, you’ll notice that we have embedded our email newsletter sign-up form. For us at uSocial, this is a great way to increase our subscriber-base while offering something extra to our readers. Using this principle, you can easily learn how to get more followers on Google Plus by embedding commands (a simple link that tells people to join your ‘circle’) either at the start, middle or end of your posts. This way you’ll harvest a lot more of a following just as an alien harvests farts from us unwilling humans.
3. Offer Incentives
A great way of getting more followers to your Google Plus account is by offering something as a gift, bonus or incentive to those people who are already in your circles. Us Internet-dwelling humans are like children sometimes and if we think we’re missing out on something because we’re not a part of something, we’ll want in big time. To take advantage of this, offer something along the lines of a free giveaway to those who are in your circles on Plus (no, your granny’s ‘vintage’ underwear won’t do) which will encourage others to be a part. Just make sure you’re broadcasting this through your other channels and you’ll be sure to boost your following.
4. Paid Advertising
Once you’ve exhausted all your other methods that you’ve learned in this article on how to get more followers on Google Plus, you can fall back on some traditional advertising like promoting your Plus account through things like Adsense within your niche. While I can guarantee this won’t pay dividends like the other stuff I’ve mentioned here, rest assured that if you’re out of options this will work. Of course, you will require some cash to throw around in order to go down this path so it won’t be feasible for everyone.
OK, so before we finish up here I’d like to mention that although Google’s new social site is definitely going to be a great promotional channel to add to your repertoire, the fact of the matter is that as yet it simply cannot compete with the likes of Facebook. So if you are using the ‘BIG FB’ for marketing (and you should be), be sure to check out some of our Facebook marketing services to help you get the edge in social media.
And that’s the end of this short but hopefully entertaining (and oh-so-informative) article on how to get more followers on Google Plus. Be sure to share it if you liked it, leave a comment below, or sign up to our newsletter below for some extra goodies!
Whether you’ve gained them by being mentioned in one of Kim Kardashian’s tweets, grew them naturally or bought them from us, if you’re on Twitter you will likely have some followers. No matter how many followers you might have, there’s probably one thing you may not have considered: how much those little digital connections are worth to you.
And no, I’m not talking about on a sentimental emotional level, I’m talking about how much they could be worth to you in cold hard simoleans. Why would you want to know this? Well, there are loads of people who will buy Twitter accounts which are proven to convert sales, or you may just want to know because you’re a pedantic, money-hungry accountant-type who needs to know how everything in your experience is worth.
Whatever the reason, in this post we’re going to take an in-depth look at how much your Twitter followers could be worth, and what that could mean to you.
I don’t like doing things in the *normal* way, which I why I took up the offer when one of my colleagues told me I should write about why people shouldn’t buy Twitter followers with us. So, let’s shake things up a little and take a look at why you shouldn’t do this (even though there are a lot of reasons you should).
1. You’re A Celebrity
We can’t all be Britney Spears (Though after her many falls from grace, I doubt there are many people who would want to be her at the moment anyway) and thus, have an instantly-massive following on Twitter.
Let’s face it, there are millions of teenage suburban girls who like minute-by-minute updates as to when their favourite celebrities are clipping their fingernails, though the fact is that they don’t want the same updates from you. So unless you’re a massive celebrity like of the final ten Idol contestants(*choke*), a reality TV star or one of Tom Cruise’s supposedly-famous offspring, then you may need to take the plunge and invest in some Twitter followers.
Either that, or you can try and get famous in the same way the kids from Jersey Shore did and simply act like orange morons on TV for a few weeks and wait for the cash to roll in.
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As more and more people pile onto the Twitter bandwagon each and every day, the site is experiencing a massive growth in not only those using the site to keep in touch with friends and family, but those who want to use the site expressly for marketing purposes.
It’s a common sight these days for anyone with a Twitter account to be bombarded with links to affiliate products, services or whatever else. And while there are a select handful of people on the site marketing the right way, it seems that for the most part, spammers are having a field day on the site.
But according to web traffic company uSocial.net, there is money to be made on Twitter whether someone is spamming or not.
“There are new scripts being created almost on a daily basis to simply allow people to follow thousands of people at a time,” said uSocial CEO Leon Hill. “In many cases we’ve seen brand new accounts grow to over 1,500 followers in a day. While they generally get suspended in a very short time, in the time they’re active they market like crazy to their followers.”
uSocial say that people are using these tactics repeatedly in order to conduct spam-marketing campaigns and in some cases can attain tens of thousands of followers in a day over several accounts.
And they say that despite Twitter’s best efforts to contain it, things are not slowing down.
“Twitter has software in place which detects strange activity and suspends accounts based on this,” said Hill. “While it’s excellent for weeding out spammers, it can sometimes take days for the software to pick it up so these spammers usually have free reign for a while on each account.”
“Most of them have several accounts running simultaneously and as soon as one is shut down they simply open another and repeat. In the great scheme of things, Twitter really isn’t stopping anything at the moment.”
But uSocial say there is a light at the end of the tunnel in that most people are savvy not to take notice of spam accounts that send out hundreds of URL tweets in the space of minutes.
“Most people just ignore it so a lot of it isn’t doing much harm apart from the annoyance of having this stuff come up on your screen for a few days until the account is closed.” Continued Hill.
And speaking of marketing on Twitter, uSocial recently launched a new set of services based around the site which include the ability for users to buy followers. But what is the company’s stance on that? Should this be considered spam?
“Many people have suggested that buying Twitter followers is spam, however we simply manage other’s accounts in order to get them the greatest amount of followers possible in a short amount of time,” said Hill. “We have no control of the content someone places on their account so if they decide to use it for spamming, it’s their choice.”
“Though if they do, it’s almost a certainty their account will be closed by Twitter’s bots quite quickly.” Finished Hill.
The new services were launched around two weeks ago and can be found by going to http://usocial.net/twitter_marketing or for more information the company can be contacted via the form on their website.
But it seems as far as the Twitter spammers are concerned that uSocial have spoken about, most people believe they won’t be going away any time soon.
