+1 for Google Pages

Google+ Pages is a feature that comes alongside Google+.

You can use Google+ Pages to separate groups of fellow students, family members, fan clubs or businesses from your personal Google+ page.

It’s a simple concept.

Google+ Pages gives you the power to create multiple pages that you can manage from a single profile without having to log into each page separately. This simplifies complicated connections between you and other Google+ users.

Creating separate pages may even help organize content even better then Google+’s Circles can. You can create a separate Page for something school-related, like a page to share and collaborate with a group of classmates, or a page for something personal like your band’s information, instead of having to scroll through all your personal posts in your Google+ profile.

Each Google+ Page is easy to manage and even easier to access. Simply click the down-arrow next to your name for a menu of all the Google+ Pages you have created:

To manage your Google+ Pages, click the down-arrow for a menu of your Pages, and click ‘Manage your pages >>’:

Google+ Pages for businesses also gives you the opportunity to allow a Page to be found by using Google search, as long as your Page has been ‘verified.’

By adding ‘+’ to the beginning of your search, Google+ Pages will appear in Google’s search results, and will take you directly to the Google+ Page. To verify your Page, you must link your Page to your site, and link your site to your Page. Verifying your Page also lets users know you are the real owner of your business’s product, and the information is authentic.

A feature Google plans to change in the future is the +1. As of right now, Google Pages shows the number of “+1″ clicks a given page has received. This number does not include all the +1′s for individual content on that Page; in the future, the +1 number shown on your Google Page will include all the times +1 was clicked for posts and content.

Learn more about Google+ Pages on Google’s website.

Questions? Email GoogleGal@boisestate.edu, or add a comment below.