I have about 100 followers there too, which is truly humorous since I've never posted anything to the googleplex.
Godfrey -- Godfrey DiGiorgi - [email protected] - 408.431.4601 cell On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:37 AM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a good point Bruce. You will get that message. I've posted > both ways with mixed results. I have about 180 followers on G+. Not > a big sample size. > > I actually consider the Squarespace blog my primary publishing spot, > duplicating the posts on Blogger as a backup. (Who knows? Squarespace > may go out of business someday. It already happened to me with > another vendor.). When I put up a blog post, I post it here with a > link to Squarespace if I think it's of interest to the list. The > squarespace link also goes to an email list of friends. It goes on G+ > either as a regular post or linked from blogger. Then a link to the > Squarespace blog goes on Twitter and Facebook. All of it is public. > > Judging from the logs, comments, +1s, etc., even though I send most of > the traffic to Squarespace, I get about half as much traffic on the > Blogger/G+ combination. Given my small sample size of followers, I > can't see much difference between the posts that go to Blogger via G+ > and the posts that go to both places separately. > > I think people with a much larger number of followers would have > better handle on this than I do. > > From what I can tell, the traffic volume (small as it is) has more to > do with the title of the post than anything else. > > GS > > George Sinos > -------------------- > www.GeorgesPhotos.net > www.GeorgeSinos.com > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, it's not _quite_ automatic posting. When you save your Blogger >> article it automatically pops up the G+ share UI to prompt you to post >> it. Sure that's useful, but I disabled it a while back because it also >> pops it up every time you make any small change to your posting like >> adding tags or correcting a spelling error. >> >> >> Something to be aware of is that the users at Google+ expect you to >> post an image to G+ itself rather than a link to an image somewhere >> else. For some reason G+ users (all 17 of them! :-) ) expect to see >> local images and will pretty much ignore any image-link posting. >> Google+ reinforces that too by showing off-linked images as tiny >> thumbnails while displaying local content as big pictures. >> >> And if you share an image to one of the G+ Groups, you will be >> verbally taken to task if you post a link to a blog article or Flickr >> page rather than local content. They like to be able to comment and +1 >> stuff on G+ itself rather than deal with 3rd parties, which I kind of >> get, but it's annoying. >> >> Google+ is too much of a closed community. I liked it in the beginning >> but I don't have the time to invest in so many different little gated >> communities. >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:10 PM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: >>> OK you guys - you're right and your wrong. >>> >>> There is no api to G+ - that's the part where you are right. >>> >>> Blogger is owned by google, and if you post on blogger it will >>> optionally automatically post to G+ once you've associated the >>> accounts. That's the part where your wrong. >>> >>> See my previous post, or >>> <https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1752748?hl=en> Sorry I >>> didn't think of including that link with the previous post. >>> >>> gs >>> George Sinos >>> -------------------- >>> www.GeorgesPhotos.net >>> www.GeorgeSinos.com >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Shhhh! 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