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Decided to dust of my Typepad Blog for a post on how to help make your Social Search experience even more awesome.
For part 1 I focus on linking your accounts together. This is key to being able to personalize content that does not live in Google+.
If you have a deep link to a site settings page that offers a way to link to Google+ let me know here or over on the blog.
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And we must give credit to Amit Singhal who shared this first!
Stay tuned, I'll have some tips on how to make sure your content gets included in social search later today.
Originally shared by Amit Singhal
Today we are introducing Search plus Your World, a new Google search experience centered around people. For the first time ever, you will be able to find personal results from your world -- your photos, your friends, your stuff -- in search.
It's rolling out today and should be available in the US for all signed in Google users over the next few days.
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Social Search is getting a huge upgrade today! Your +1s, your posts and your content now matter more than ever.
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Do you create content on the web? Do you want to make that content eligible for inclusion in Google's new social search? Of course you do!
Read on for the first part in my series of tips and tricks on how to make social search work better for your content.
Social search uses your Google identity plus your extended social graph to help you find personalized content. The extended social graph is found via links everyone adds to their Google+ profile. More links means more personalized data.
Connect and Verify the accounts you use across the web on the Connected Accounts settings page. Then add these and other profile links on your Google+ profile. Remember to add links to accounts across the web, places where you actually create content: your postings, comments, photos, videos and so on.
The best results come from two-way links so consider adding links back to your Google+ profile. For best results paste in your Google+ profile and remove the /u/# and suffixes. Your profile link should look like this:
https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749
I recently added links to my Google+ profile on these sites. I've included the direct link so you can too. I'd love to know about more, just leave the site name and link in the comments!
And for those of you self-hosting your own blog or site you can manually put a link back to your Google+ profile by editing your HTML markup to include a link to your Google+ profile. Here's a simple example:
<a rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/117259934788907243749">
My Google+ Profile
</a>
The important part is the rel="me" That tells Google that the linked page is your profile.
That wraps it up for Part 1 -- stay tuned for Part 2 where I go over how to mark up authorship for your content! Thanks for plussing!
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Anyone want to help me fill out my DJ circle? ... especially artists that share Youtube content. Google+ shared videos are a great feature on the new Youtube home page.
Thanks!
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Want to find some great new music? Load up this URL:
https://plus.google.com/s/remix/posts
Then click "Most Recent".
You'll find all sorts of interesting remixes scrolling by. There's enough content that you can't even listen to it all, so you can pick out the most interesting stuff.
(And feel free to substitute some suitable generic term if you're not really into DJs and electronic/pop music.)
