I have to say that I really like Google+ and having setup a brand page 24 hours ago I really like the pages.  They are clean and easy to use and understand.

How much this will have an effect on Google search results will be seen.  I really hope that Google keeps the interface clean and the experience nice.

Of course all the people that seem to be on Google+ right now are techies and early web adaptors.  I hope that more people start using this fantastic platform.

Recently I came across this article from a Charlotte web development company – http://www.theideapeople.com/our-blog/internet-marketing-charlotte/google-accounts-businesses-09112011/ – and although I don’t know anything about this company if you live in or around Charlotte you may want to check them out.  They seem to be up on the online marketing trends.

Within the past two days a lot of photographers have shown up on Google+ but how about models?  I’m having a hard time finding them.  Are you a model and want to Google+ page?  If you are in the Charlotte area contact The Idea People, if you are in the Great Lakes Bay Region of Michigan contact me!

David

I would love to say that I have thousands of Twitter followers and hundreds of friends on Facebook and that I’m a social media marketing aficionado.  Truth is that I have a lot of knowledge that I’m experimenting with.

This brings me to url shortening. I have been using websites to shorten my url’s for posting on Twitter and Facebook for a while.  These are great and I can see in my website stats that it generates some traffic.  But I wasn’t sure if my efforts were really being rewarded.  I kept seeing bit.ly used by people who were SEO and industry leaders but never checked it out . . . until now.

So I tried out bit.ly and see why people love it.  In one word – statistics! It’s great! I can see how many times my link was clicked and what site it was clicked from.  Any true website marketer is a stats junkie and bit.ly gives you your daily fix!

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