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There you go, have invited you. Know what you mean, it is an age old marketing trick, but after the recent google flops, I suspect there is a lot more riding on this and it will be marketed and pushed to an inch of its life.

Trouble is, I'm comfortable with facebook, got my non business account for personal stuff, and a business one.

So assume you would follow the same theory for plus, but why re-invent the wheel? Unless of course all my contacts leave FB.

Can see a definite need for business, as we all want big G to smile on us in the SERPs, with all those +1's everywhere, and can see this as much better as a business marketing tool than FB, but guess only time will tell...

Plus there's only so many hours in the day!

Well I've just landed on this here new Google+ Social Networking site, or is it Google Plus?

Although technically it's still in a limited field trial, it seems half the Earths population have been invited.

Still finding my way around, looks like Virtually Mary has her feet well under the table, so lets nominate her as our guru!

Well I assume you can view profiles from URL's like Facebook, no doubt there will nice friendly ones over time.

So I'll start things off:
https://plus.google.com/104247085577497637405/posts

Feel free to add your profiles below.

oh gawd, is 34 classed as old?

Do it! Take the leap, its a terrifying rollercoaster ride, but wouldn't swop it for the world

Now drink up

What a waste of a talent, but someone on a self destruct mission unfortunatley.

Ref Wow, no idea what you're on about, guessing I'm too old

Self confessed snob, I refuse to go in, so the wife goes in and puts the stuff in a Marks and Sparks bag to make me feel better

The weekly shop is alarming though, and if anything its forced us out of complacency and made us visit different shops. Buying a big bag of cat litter from somewhere like Pets at home and you save a couple of quid over Tescos, get the baby stuff from Asda instead of Tesco, and you start to see how much you are paying over the odds by getting it all from one supermarket.

I guess its the curse of the modern age, convenience and time management, but this comes at a cost.

Maybe this could be a bonus for the smaller independents as consumers buying habits shift?

Remember now in WMT you can check your +1's as well as your links.

And to keep track of your facebook analytics, remember to use Facebook Insights

Just more stuff to add to your weekly marketing checks

I always thought so, and likewise used to pay for the Yahoo Directory which got pretty pricey for a few sites, but their backlink seemed to carry some weight.

It's a hard one to gauge though. You could argue that you'd be better off spending

Well looking at your forum posting, you come over as relaxed and confident.

Why not make use of your signature links. You never know, you may get a few more readers for your blog

Include your twitter, FB and linked in id into your profile. Networking, Online marketing call it what you like, but it's all about presence. If DreamRaven keeps cropping up on forums/social networks and people value what she has to say, then human nature will normally carry that trust to any product or business she is associated with.

Online networking is all about building up trust and credibility.

Take a competitive market like web designers. Someone who has repeatedly helped people out and offered good advice with out doing a sales pitch is highly likely to gain new clients from things like forum or social networking reccomendations.

I think people that get the least out of online networking are the ones that haven't grasped that people don't want to be sold to all the time. Just look at any twitter stream, these days its normally a sea of hard sell

It looks like we have the answer to the disappearing reviews from Google Places.

Google has been revamping the Places pages over the last month, changing the layout, and the format of how reviews are shown.

Traditionally they showed all reviews pulled from different sites, but now Google being Google has pushed 3rd party reviews to the bottom of the page, whilst promoting their own review system.

It looks like anti trust legalese stuff from the States from big sites like Yelp and Trip Adviser that seem to have triggered this, plus no doubt changing the format so it works better in Google+

At least it explains why reviews have been jumping all over the place, but things should now start to settle down.

The official Google post about it is below:
Google LatLong: The Ongoing Evolution of Place Pages