Google Plus-10 tips to grow your social network circles

Google plus now hugely popular among bloggers,   webmasters, artists, marketers, and social media fans!

Google Plus finally has come in the social media race with likes of Facebook, Twitter, and My Space. Google + is expanding its presence with lighting speed across the world

You would not expect a common user using Google Plus like the way they use Facebook and Twitter to share small things they consider interesting with their online networks in their daily life - not even a 10 % of it!

But, if you are a blogger, online marketer, publisher, content writer, artist, or social media fan, then definitely you should take Google Plus seriously, and more so after Google started rating social media engagement while considering their search results.

Find below some cool tips on how you can expand your Google + circle to get the maximum out of your social media marketing/engagement plans.  

1. Grow your circle-If you are new to Google Plus or very few people have you in their circle/s ( as every contect can put you in miltiple circles thus making your profile multilayered- a ++ point about Google + ) then you are not being heard enough to make your posts reach to a larger audience. You just search the people you think relevant for your niche using Google Plus search bar as the first step to expand your network of people you have in your circles. Chances are that at least 10-20 % will add you back in their circles making a room for you to share with themselves.
2. Once, enough people have added you in their circles, you can start posting some really good, useful, interesting, and RELEVANT content. Here, you need to be extra cautious while sharing your posts. Don't look selfish by promoting only your own content/page links. At this point of time your ONLY motive should be to grow your network at Google Plus. Growing your own network of loyal connections is not an easy feat.
3. When you have grown your network or you are well on the way of expanding your circle, you can also post your own content to generate traffic for your web page. But, again do not do it overly, let's say, share the posts in 70-30 % ratio, 70 percent of your posts should be from external sources which you consider useful for your network. Afterall social media is all about sharing. You can't get much out of it by blowing your own trumpet. You share what others are doing/making/writing and others will share yours. 
4. Make your Google plus profile url link short, smart, and memorable so that you can share your Google plus posts on other places as well. Visit Gplus.to and put your desired nick name and Google+ ID in the spaces given on the home page. The green colored part in the following link of my own Google plus url represents your ID-  https://plus.google.com/u/0/110890028470371316169/posts.  And Gplus will generate a smart looking url for your Google plus profile (Google Plus profile urls look complex and very strange unlike the smart and sleek urls offered by Facebook and Twitter. Ok, so you will have a good profile url for your Google Plus like my own :www.gplus.to/vjlamba -  going to this url you can add me in your circles, and i will return the favor :)
         

Google+ Projects becomes a huge hit (super) among the social media lovers.

Google+ Project- An another amazingly outstanding product from Google factory. It looks convincingly promising in all dimensions of social media networking. And, as expected, it has added extremely high popularity to Google’s social media connect ( much needed for Google to tackle the overwhelming Facebook mania among users around the world ).

But, Google+ is still in a ’field trial ’ and only open to a limited number of Googlers. If you are not already connected registered on Google+ You can signup to be informed of your registration turn when Google + is open to be joined for your location.

Google+ is now just a month older and has already generated huge waves among all social media lovers around the world.
Google+ is a newly created social media site by top web searching giant Google itself.
Google+ has all the features and connectivity tools with a solid neat and clean look and an appealing simplicity like Google itself.
Readers and social media networking lovers all across the world has showered love and praise for Google+ for being a strong social community and connectivity hub place. That’s why Google+ has gathered a tremendous traffic flow which has surpassed the established one’s even like- Mashable and Del.icio.us ! This has straightly put Google+ among the list of top 10 best social Media networking sites.
According to a recently published report by NetMarketShare Google+ is ranked no. 7 when considering the percentage of all web visitors that get referred from the major social media sites.





Below given report figures reflect the referrals from different social media sites, plus the results are based open the bounce rate, new coming visitors rate, etc.

Site	% of all Referrals	Page depth per referral	New visitor rate	Bounce rate
Facebook	0.64574	2.80	63.46%	62.95%
You Tube	0.28394	2.73	78.28%	49.44%
Twitter	0.11363	1.96	65.81%	71.13%
stumbleUpon	0.06609	1.33	93.67%	84.81%
LinkedIn	0.03062	1.94	86.54%	72.51%
Reddit	0.00534	1.33	96.51%	89.32%
Google+	0.00354	2.01	75.44%	77.65%
Delicious	0.00097	3.41	74.93%	55.43%
Mashable	0.00071	3.34	92.23%	55.98%
Flickr	0.00057	3.00	94.24%	62.66%
Metacafe	0.00035	1.58	98.35%	79.01%
Scribd	0.00021	3.76	91.78%	50.00%
Digg	0.00009	1.81	91.94%	67.74%
Fark	0.00005	1.67	57.58%	63.64%

In your point of view, what has contributed to the huge, quick popularity of Google+ ? Please do feel free to comment your own valuable views !