Below is live coverage of the Getting More from Google+ and the +1 Button panel from the SES San Francisco 2011 conference. This coverage is provided by Ben Pfeiffer at RankSmart.
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Ben Pfeiffer:
2:02:04 pm
Getting More from Google+ and the +1 Button
In this session we'll look at the many ways Google is improving by focusing on people. We'll review how the Google+ project is adding the richness of real-life sharing to software, combining the casual meetup with live multi-person video, and much more. We'll then dive into some detail with +1 implementation best practices, getting the most out of analytics and reporting, structured markup, and some thoughts on businesses in Google+.
Speakers:
Jonathan Allen, Director, SearchEngineWatch
Timothy Jordan, Developer Advocate, Google
In this session we'll look at the many ways Google is improving by focusing on people. We'll review how the Google+ project is adding the richness of real-life sharing to software, combining the casual meetup with live multi-person video, and much more. We'll then dive into some detail with +1 implementation best practices, getting the most out of analytics and reporting, structured markup, and some thoughts on businesses in Google+.
Speakers:
Jonathan Allen, Director, SearchEngineWatch
Timothy Jordan, Developer Advocate, Google
Ben Pfeiffer:
2:06:35 pm
Timothy Jordan from Google is up to talk about Google+
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2:08:11 pm
He says at Google it's important to focus on users. The internet is more and more about people. There are a few problems Google thinks they can solve.
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2:08:41 pm
When you are online it is not too different than when you are offline.
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2:09:35 pm
He says there is still something not the same online. That is why they introduced Circles to Google+
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2:09:43 pm
It's natural way to share.
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2:10:09 pm
The presentation is have some technical difficulties.
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2:10:53 pm
Circles is about sharing what matters/
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2:11:11 pm
Sparks is another part of Google+
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2:11:29 pm
Sparks help you start a conversation online.
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2:12:11 pm
Google Hangouts are a big part of Google+. This is a video chat but with ten of your friends. Hangouts are easy because you can jump in and out.
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2:12:30 pm
Mobile is another component of Google+
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2:13:00 pm
Google+ is about you and adding you to Google.
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2:13:13 pm
Games has just launched in Google+
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2:14:03 pm
Now he is gonna talk about +1 button
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2:14:39 pm
90% of consumers online trust recommendations made by friends.
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2:15:25 pm
He puts up a search results for something. And shows how that article got a lot of +1.
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2:16:30 pm
He says there are different levels of +1'ing something. In the results or in the article.
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2:17:27 pm
Your social connections may increase your CTR on paid and search listing.
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2:18:08 pm
Couple things they recently done since lauching Google+ is they released it into analytics and into webmaster tools.
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2:19:22 pm
Once you have enough +1 data, they give you general demographic data.
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2:20:07 pm
There is a new social engagement tracking part in Google Analytics to help you track +1 and other signals.
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2:21:09 pm
There is now a new snippet that will load in conjunction with the page.
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2:21:39 pm
Now he is going to present some best practices.
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2:21:54 pm
Canonicalization is important.
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2:22:39 pm
He gives an example of rel=canonical tag.
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2:23:28 pm
So where do you put the +1 button on the page?
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2:24:11 pm
A lot of retail sites are putting the +1 on the categories level pages. Such as putting it on a Shoes category, or TV category page.
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2:26:14 pm
He is gonna present some Callback examples. This is data that Google will tell you when you get a click.
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2:26:56 pm
He puts up some images he pulled from Flickr
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2:28:53 pm
When you click the +1 button on the photo, and get a Callback which then shows the user other photos about green frogs from Flickr. So they get something in return which is other great photos of green frogs. All the user had to do was +1. Pretty cool!
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2:29:27 pm
He moves on to Author information in search. 1. Ask your authors to create Google profile.
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2:29:46 pm
In the links section of their profile they should link to sites to they contribute to.
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2:30:04 pm
Next in the article page, you link to the authors Google profile page.
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2:31:46 pm
Next he moves into structured markup. It's not related so much with +1, but still important. Check out schema.org
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2:32:25 pm
He puts up a search for stuffing. It shows recipe sites, etc..
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2:33:18 pm
He then talks about how you can markup the code on your site with schema.org markup.
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2:33:56 pm
He says its useful and beneficial to include markup in your code.
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2:55:51 pm
He can't comment on when Business pages will be released. He can't comment on what will be included, but promises it will be awesome. #fail
Ben Pfeiffer:
3:00:50 pm
Last session of SES over!
