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Well DUH…This must be one of the most underused features of Google+ EVER! Don’t think about it, just follow the steps and do it. It’s free and you have literally nothing to lose.
Link to your website
Linking your Google+ page and your website is useful because:
- It helps you connect with your friends, fans, and customers.
- It provides Google with information that we can use to help determine the relevancy of your site to a user query on Google Search.
- Your site will become eligible for Google+ Direct Connect.
Webmaster linking
If your website is already verified in Webmaster Tools, then the verified webmaster can approve a request to connect your website to your Google+ page.
To link your Google+ page to your website:
- Make sure you’re using Google+ as your page.
- Click
Profile on the left.
- On the ‘About’ tab, click the Link website button next to your website URL.
If we know the webmaster for this website, we’ll give you the option to send a request to the webmaster to approve the link. Requesting approval will reveal your email address to the site owner. - The verified webmaster can confirm the link in Webmaster Tools.
Once the link has been approved, you’ll receive and email. You’ll also see a checkmark next to your website on the ‘About’ tab of your page’s profile.
Direct Linking
You can directly link your website by inserting a small snippet of code on your website and then listing that website as your Google+ page’s primary link in the About section of the profile. For example, if your Google+ page’s primary link is set to http://www.pagewebsite.com
, you can create a bidrectional link by placing the following code snippet in the <head> tag of the site’s HTML:
<link href=”https://plus.google.com/{+PageId}” rel=”publisher” />
Please note! Redirect URLs should not be used. Only the primary URL for your website should be used.
To link your Google+ page to your website:
- Make sure you’re using Google+ as your page.
- Click Profile on the left.
- On the ‘About’ tab, click the Link website button next to your website URL.
- Follow the steps in the box that appears:
- Copy and paste the code snippet provided to the <head> tag of your website and click the Test website button.
- We’ll check to make sure you’ve added the snippet to your website correctly.
- Click Done when the check is complete.
Here is the link to the Google+ instructions…https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1713826?p=link_page_to_website&rd=1
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