Your site doesn't have enough +1's yet to show characteristics - how many do you need

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Published 21st September 2011 |
Read latest comment - 2nd March 2012

Anyone dabbling with the Plus One code on their sites and tracking through Google Webmaster tools will be do doubt analyzing their stats.

(If you're not familiar with google webmaster tools - google it and set it up, it's painless, free and offers you a wealth of info about your site and any issues).

If you haven't noticed the +1 metrics options, go and check it out now!

The bottom tab says audience, and here it will show the number of unique users who have +1'd your pages.

Then apparently it will then show more data, but we just get the message:
"Your site doesn't have enough +1's yet to show characteristics."

We have 373 (as of 19/09/11) so the question is, how many do you need?

How's anyone else doing? Google'ing the question seems to come to a dead end so guess it's a case of waiting for someone to shout up.

My money is on 500 +1's so feel free to give us a helping hand, and I'll report back if anything happens!

(scroll half way down our home page, or visit any listing Operation Plus 1!)

Anybody else got any insights or has 500+ plus 1's? Or is it all just a clever marketing trick to get us to use the +1 button

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
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Thank you for this most informative post, Steve.

We have the Plus One code set up on our site, but I wondered why the display result changes every time I visit. I have been meaning to check it out, but like many other things, I hadn't got round to it. With all the services on offer, is there anyone that can provide "more hours in your day"?

Holborn Direct Mail
020 8683 7155

Forgot to mention, I just +1'd your home page.

Holborn Direct Mail
020 8683 7155

Forgot to mention, I just +1'd your home page.

ta very much

Too true, need more hours in the day! I'm guessing this will really take off when Google finally decides to officially launch the Plus1 network, I'm just impatient

Just curious what data and characteristics the Google god will give us.

Anyone out there seeing any yet??

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

Your site doesn't have enough +1's yet to show characteristics."

We have 373 (as of 19/09/11) so the question is, how many do you need?

My money is on 500 +1's so feel free to give us a helping hand, and I'll report back if anything happens!

Well, a month later and we have now 501 unique +1's, but still no characteristics

So whats the next guess, 1000??? Anyone else seeing any? This smells of a marketing trick, I bet there is no characteristics report

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

plus1 counts pages rather than websites.
Your homepage has 166

you can check by using my +1 checker

If you want, you could try increasing the +1 count of your homepage by putting an extra +1 button on every page of your site using the homepage URL in the buttons code.

When people use it they are then +1'ing your homepage rather than the individual page.

My site has about 670 at the moment (homepage 90 even though it doesn't have the button on it)
I don't see characteristics but do see activity, audience and search impact.

Thanks,
UKSBD

If you want, you could try increasing the +1 count of your homepage by putting an extra +1 button on every page of your site using the homepage URL in the buttons code.

Not bothered by increasing the number to the homepage, personally I think it's better to promote individual listing pages, and likewise seeing plenty of activity and search impact, but just full of curiosity over this bizarre characteristics tab.

Spoken to other large site owners on other forums, and no one seems to have triggered it, although most are coy about revealing their numbers

670 is pretty good, beating us! So if you get to a 1000 before us, let me know if you trigger it! Otherwise first one to 10,000...

Maybe its just duff WMT functionality!

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

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1st November 2011 3:53 PM
I just recently added the +1 to my website, but I really need to learn more about it.

It will be good when Google allows for business profiles, as they only allow personal profiles just now on Google+.

Well, a month later and we have now 501 unique +1's, but still no characteristics

Huzzah!! We now have characteristics!

Hmmm, the wait really wasn't worth it, and to be honest the stats are more than ropey!

We went from 501 unique +1's, then it said up until 15/02 we had 0 (!?!), then a day later we shot upto 713

But we now have 1541 uniques, and 2,143 in total. So the answer is somewhere between 501 and 1541 !

Heres a screen shot of the anticipated excitement... a poxy pie chart


Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

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