Get Twitter Follow and Google +1

1. Go to their site (link here) and follow the four-step process. You’ll want to make sure you’re logged into Google. It won’t work if you use your corporate/work account.

2. Go to Google and search for your website or blog. Make sure you search for it; don’t type the URL.

3. When you find what you searched for, you’ll see a +1 button next to the URL (in the search results).

4. Make sure your popups aren’t blocked.

5. Click the +1 button.

6. Viola! Your website and/or blog now are made visible in your individual or the company’s profile.

In less than 15 minutes you can be using these new tools, driving customers and prospects to something you own, and begin to collect data in order to better serve their needs.

About Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based integrated marketing communications firm. She is the lead blogger here at Spin Sucks and is the founder of Spin Sucks Pro. She is the co-author of Marketing in the Round and co-host of Inside PR. Her second book, Spin Sucks, is due out in November 2013

jonbuscall

I see that you've added the LinkedIn button too. It seems to be out performing Twitter on some posts! Cool. 
 
Still haven't got my head around LInkedIn. Just one step beyond the time I can put into things.

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@jonbuscall I'm with you on LinkedIn, though it's my goal to master it this year. We hired a biz dev person so she's probably going to force it.

Almost60Really

Just tried them! Looking forward to seeing how it goes for everybody. New fun! Or new work? Time will tell. :)

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@Almost60Really We added them to Spin Sucks on Monday night. It's really fun to watch the numbers increase. I have a feeling they're going to help with traffic. I will report back.

KimDavies

Thanks for these, Gini, Now, I have tons of resources to show my boss about the new Google +1 button and the Twitter follow, so he can have both added on our blog. :)

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@KimDavies And look above - we added them to the blog last night so you can see how they're being used, too!

Mark_Harai

Thanks for sharing these Gini... I've installed them both on my blog : )

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@Mark_Harai You follow direction so well!

Mark_Harai

@ginidietrich LOL - your directions; yes :P

RobertDempsey

Hey Gini great stuff. I have the +1 button added to my site and I see it for searches when using Google Chrome. As for the new Twitter button, do you think it's any better than the other more "badgey" ones, or just another option?

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@RobertDempsey I like the Twitter button because people stay on your site. You're not driving them to Twitter to follow you.

WordsDoneWrite

Thanks for the details instructions and the Sunday afternoon assignment, Ms. Dietrich ;-) I'm on it...

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@WordsDoneWrite Did you get them done??

Ricardo Bueno

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Pretty simple steps to follow... Twitter Follow is now enabled on my site :-) The tagline below it shall read: "Follow me if you're awesome!" LOL, just kiddin'... :-)

ginidietrich moderator

@Ricardo Bueno I love that! Shamelessly stealing. :)

Yael Rozencwajg

@ginidietrich you told me I'm optimistic but finally I feel super stressed #bubble #Google #Twitter :(

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@Yael Rozencwajg LOL! Don't be stressed. Keep going after your personal goals. You'll do it!

John Fitzgerald

+1 rocks. Integrating "likes" with Google search could be much more useful than pumping "Likes" into a FB newsfeed.

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@John Fitzgerald I think so, too. We shall see!

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@deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis Um, excuse me. This is MY blog and I was going to blog about how to do that later this week. Jeez.

prosperitygal

Using firefox and added google.com to exception to allow pop up ans still do not see a +1 in search results

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@prosperitygal Did you sign up for it? If not, go here http://imm.io/6cbH and click the "try it now" button. Then click "join this experiment." Then Google something.

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@deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis Between you and @ariherzog commenting on things out of my control. Oy. Vey.

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Ari Herzog

@deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis @ginidietrich Not really.

If someone likes something on Facebook, it appears as, "Shawn Smith liked this."

Will I now see a line such as, "Shawn Smith +1d this?" What will I see if a Gmail contact clicks +1? And it's only Gmail, Youtube, or other Google product contacts, right?

Ari Herzog

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@ginidietrich Damn straight. I don't do what you want either... other than pointing me to a comment mentioning me and wondering if I'll respond.

So, @deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis can you explain in a sentence what Google +1 is, for I don't grasp it at all.

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@deleted_91832_Sean McGinnis It's just you.

Justicewordlaw

I really do like the new Twitter button. I inserted it a couple of days ago and it is really cool. It is a must have for blogs. But, you are correct with just driving traffic to your blog instead of relying on other platforms. That has always been my focus in social media is to never just rely on one platform because they might go down one day (ex:Myspace) and you would of lost a lot of traffic from that.

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@Justicewordlaw When clients ask us if they can just have a Facebook page instead of building a website we always yell, "NO!" Why wouldn't you want to own it??