What are your experiences with Google+?

[MSGroup]

Hi all,

It would be great to hear about your experiences with Google+. We've tried a few times to use it in the hope that it might give us a hand in SEO terms but it has been utterly painful. Not only because the UI is almost impossible to figure out, but because engagement is essentially 0.

Perhaps we're doing something wrong. How has it gone for you?

Ross

[NickW816]

Hi Ross,

Several years ago we used to use Google+ with a mediocre level of engagement, but today it is mostly a dead social site. Google has even begun deleted profiles that are unused and appears to be showing signs of dissolving it completely in the near future. In my experience, I would advise you make sure you have a filled out profile on it (usually it will be tied to your Google My Business account), but then not invest a ton of time with posts after it is created.

[MSGroup]

Hi Joseph,

Big relief that this isn't just us!!

[Seenlyst]

Hello Ross,

I have a similar experience with Google+ but I believe the reason is that there are simply too few people from our specific industry and country using Google+, to be honest, you don't need to be active on all social media platform, just on the platform where your audience is there.

For me, I just simply share written blog post on my Google+ without creating any unique content for our Google+, we spend more of our time on LinkedIn and Facebook instead.

So again, you don't need to be everywhere, just where your audience at.

Hope this helps,
Joseph Yap