Google Plus gives bloggers more than Facebook - it allows you to claim all your online Content wherever it is published online, link it up and brand it all with your name as Author and an identifying photo. Google Plus also allows you to add your photo to all your SERP listings, which has been proven to increase click rates and therefore your traffic from Google searches.

At Google Plus you can add people into an unlimited number of different 'circles'. This means there is more flexibilty than the very basic Facebook Likes and Friends. You can have different circles for all the different areas of your online life. My experience is that it is much easier to 'drive' than Facebook, and has a lot more flexibility. I definitely like Google Plus whereas I have never liked Facebook where I often feel like I am being stalked by people I don't even know.

Setting up your Google Plus account is easy. But linking everything all together with all the steps required to Verify Email Addresses, Verify photos, add the rel="me", rel="author" and rel="publisher" can be tricky to get right.

I have written 5 articles that explain in detail, all the steps you need to get right, if you want to make it all sync up successfully. Here is a link to the first article in the series:

Google Authorship Explained: Why You Need It To Increase Traffic

If you haven't yet set up your Google Plus Profile and Business Pages, claimed and Branded your online Content, and got your photo appearing in Google Searches, you need to do it before you find that you have been left behind, wondering where all your traffic went.

Just do it, and do it today. And if you are really nice to me, I might consider adding your to my elite Google Plus Circle of 'Bloggers That I Trust'!

Collecting nearly a decade's worth of quotations from Zuckerberg's speeches, interviews and writings on subjects including online social engagement, education, hacking culture, personal business strategies and even his views on that movie, this book is a triumph of the editor's art. I say that as a writer and editor, in the technology sector, with two decades of graft behind me. I know all too well how hard doing this stuff, and doing it well, actually is. And that's precisely what Beahm has accomplished, a job well done. It's no exaggeration to say that he has managed to superbly and succinctly capture the views of the Facebook CEO in an easily readable yet not dumbed down book.

The latest in a series of 'In Their Own Words' books which has seen the words of technology giants such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs get the insightful indexing treatment, The Boy Billionaire is nothing less than an authoritative portrait of the Time magazine 2010 Person of the Year. Whether your interest is the man himself, his business or the changing face of social communication you will not be disappointed by what you find. Sure, you could argue that everything in this book is unoriginal in as far as most of it being discoverable online or elsewhere in print, and that's true to up to a point. Much of the comment is, indeed, out there on the Internet but not all of it. Nor is all of it freely accessible as some will undoubtedly be hiding behind publication paywalls. Some may only be available if you have a print copy of the original publication, although I confess I have not bothered trying to track down every single quote to find out! You could argue that it represents bad value courtesy of the 'go Google' argument above, but I would say you are wrong. The value here lays with the contextualisation, the sorting, the collating of those quotes that together paint a recognisable portrait of Zuckerberg. George Beahm himself describes it as "culling quotations that form a portrait of him unadulterated by bias, second-guessing, and journalists' personal agendas". For less than five dollars you can get all of this in Kindle format for reading on the go, and for ten dollars you have a paperback version if you prefer. How's that bad value again, exactly?

Perhaps my favourite quotation from the book is in the 'starting out' section (reprinted with permission) as it gels with my own thoughts 100%: "There's this culture in the Valley of starting a company before they know what they want to do. You decided you want to start a company, but you don't know what you are passionate about yet... You need to do stuff you are passionate about. The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world, so do something you like".

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1. Directory Submissions
2. Social Bookmarking
3. Article Submissions
4. Video Submissions
5. Profile Linking
6. Ads Posting through Classifieds
7. Local Business Listing
8. Slide Sharing
9. Forum Commenting
10. Blog Commenting

I am looking for shopping social networks like ThisNext(www.thisnext.com) and Kaboodle(www.kaboodle.com)? Can you please suggest such similar sites which you have been using for listing of your products?

I have one question. Should I use short or long URLs when submitting my blog articles to social bookmarking sites?
If I keep submitting them every two days, does Google penalize my sites for submitting the same social sites every day, like Facebook, google plus?

If yes, should I use short urls instead?

Thanks.

Stock prices is not important - it's really just tech news for social media purposes. I do SEM/SEO but do a lot of research on social, hence the need for these tools.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Recently I created a forum for people to discuss their travel plan & itineraries schedules programs to Thailand ( www.thailandtripforum.com ) To be honest, this is my first forum and I find it very difficult to attract people to my forum. I know that there are a lot of people out there that need advices about their trip to Thailand. Please advise me on what is the best way to attract tourists to my forum....

Thank you in advance.

I have a Facebook like button on my homepage and some individual pages. My code is:

<script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:like href="http://www.mydomain.com<?=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?>" layout="button_count" show_faces="false" width="100" action="like" font="arial"></fb:like>

However, the total count is different from homepage and individual pages. So, how do I add a total count to make it more attractive (I mean bigger number).

For example, homepage has 10 likes, individual pages have 10, can I add them up to make it 20 likes that show on everywhere of my site?

Thanks.