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Google+ is one of the fastest growing Social Networks and is considered the best network for content marketers. So one should always make the best use of it.

Do you want more followers?
Do you want more great content in your stream?
Do you want more activity on your posts?

Well, in this post I have come up with yet another simple trick to gain Free Google+ Real Followers.

But before you get started I want you all to check my previous Google+ trick to get unlimited plus ones to your link.

As Usual I posted an update on my Facebook wall regarding my next post. It's just to keep my readors updated.

Post by Iftekhar Ahmed.

Trick to get FREE Unlimited Google+ Followers

So, without wasting time lets get started. This trick can get you around 100-1000 followers daily. Note that the followers are 100% real people, no bots and they follow you manually. I've shared 2 different methods to get followers. Try them both and do share your experiences in the comments section.

" Follow Others to get Followed "

Followers Trick 1- Steps to Follow

This trick is very easy to apply and takes no more than 5 minutes to get everything done.

Open up Google+. Make sure there are no restrictions on your profile.

Search for #SharedCircles. The results will come up with a long list of various Google+ Circles shared publicly.

Trick to get Unlimited Google+ Followers

Here comes the tricky part.

All you have to do is just, select any circle with around 200+ members and click on ADD people button. (You can also read the circle description to know more about it).

You can create a new circle or add them to any of your exisiting circles. I recommend making a new circle everytime.

After you create the circle, you will start getting followers. Here's a snap showing my 1 day Google+ Notifications. 80% of the notifications I get are of followers.

You can find this trick here also

Additional Tips

You can add only 1 circle a day. Adding more may lead to temporary restrictions on your profile
Apply this Trick on alternative days.
You can also search for keywords like:

#CircleOfTheDay
#SharedPublicCircles
#SharedCircle
#PublicCircle

Followers Trick 2- Steps to Follow

The main advantage of this trick is that it gives you targetted followers. All you have to do is just some 10-15 minutes research.

Go to CircleCount and click on Specials<< Circles as shown in the picture, you will find 4 different options.

Trick to get Unlimited Google Plus Followers

Here are the links:

Open up any link, a list of some of the best Circles will be displayed. Different stats of the circles like Followers, +1s, Comments, Reshares are also displayed.

Enter your Keyword in the Search Bar and get a list of Circles related to your search. This way you can find circles related to your niche.

Search for your keyword

You can also view different stats of a Circle by clicking Details button.

List Of Circles

All Stats of a Circle

Select any Circle of your niche having huge engagement and add the circle following the steps explained in Trick 1.

So to conclude, Find Active Circles related to your niche and Add them using the steps given above. You will then get followed back by around 50% members of that particular circle.

Advantages of these Tricks

There are a lot of advantages of using this trick, let me list some of them:

Having more Followers will make your profile look more professional
You will start getting Shares on your posts
It will boost your visibility on Google+
It will help you get more plus ones.
Get Great content in your Streams.

I hope you all enjoyed this trick of mine. Do share it with your friends and other bloggers. If you are getting confused, do let us know in the comments. We will try to solve your queries.

BONUS

As with my Last trick of FREE Google+ Votes, this trick can also be used to earn some money. There are many people out there on Fiverr and SEOCLERKS looking for Google+ Followers. So why not target them and earn money. Sell this trick to them and get some money into your accounts.

Also Read: Get 5$ SEOCLERKS Coupon FREE

I hope you liked this trick!! I will be waiting to hear from you. Why not help us by hitting those social buttons below, after all sharing is caring.

After the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google recently released a new Local Search Algorithm. The main objective of this update is to provide the users more relevant and accurate local search results.

The Update is named as "Pigeon Update" by Search Engine Land since Google have not given any name to it. The changes will be seen on local google web results as well as on Google maps.

This update has currently rolled for the US English results. Google haven't shared any information on when it will be available more widely for different countries and other language based searches.

Pigeon Update: Google Updates Local Search Algorithm

Extract by Barry Schwartz

The changes have rolled out to both the Google Maps search results and Google Web search results. Google told me that the new local algorithm has "deeper into their web search capabilities, including the hundreds of ranking signals they use in web search along with search features such as Knowledge Graph, spelling correction, synonyms and more." It also has better accuracy over distance and location rankings.

YELP Problem Solved!!

This update has overcomed the YELP problem. YELP earlier had accused Google of manipulating the search results by showing Google's own directory listings instead of showing Yelp listings even if the user searched for YELP listing.

Here is an image showing the results before the pigeon update:

Pic from SEL

Results after the Update:

Read more: What is the YELP Problem and How This update will overcome it

Note: Only US users can experience the change now

More Details

Yelp, TripAdvisor, Zagat, Urbanspoon got improvement in their ranking. Most of them are back on page 1

Only US English results are affected currently

Google said that this new algorithm will improve the distance and location ranking parameters and moreover will aim to provide a more useful and relevant experience for searchers seeking local results, although it will make it more difficult for individual businesses to rank in the search results.

What's your say??

So, what do you think about this update? Are you penalised by Penguin update?

Do share your views in comments.

Also Read: Trick to get Unlimited Google Plus Votes to your Blog Posts

Webmasters have also started sharing the changes they witnessed. You can check up in the comments section of Search Engine Land's post. Discussions are under way now on various forums and social networks regarding the update.

Read more about this update:

Hello Fellow Bloggers!! Today I�m going to share one more trick that I�ve been using since the past 3 months.

Should I share?? Ahh!! Let�s do it, after all I�ve been getting a lot from my readers as well.

Trick to get 100+ Guaranteed Google Plus Votes to Every Blog Post

So here�s the case, with this trick you can get unlimited Google Votes to any of your link may it be direct domain link or any of your post link.

After so many updates including the recent Penguin and Panda Updates there has been numerous changes in Google SERP rankings. It can be observed that Post Length and Social Strength of a blog are the main key points for getting a good rank in Google. Writing long posts (around 600-1000 words) is not a big deal for a regular blogger but yeah getting social shares (Fb likes, Google+ Votes, Tweets, Stumbles etc.) is not always an easy task.

Higher the number of social shares higher will be your rank in google (My Own Experiences). So try to get huge social shares onto your posts.

Firstly, Get a good social sharing widget onto your blog so that the reader can easily use them, I prefer Sharethis widget/ plugin. You can also try addthis or any other plugin but make sure you add all the common social network buttons.

How to get Social Shares?

If you have posted good quality content then you will surely get some shares but what if you don�t get good shares. No problem there�s a trick to get shares on each and every network.

Trick to get Facebook Likes. With every share of your post link on Facebook you get a like counted. So share your post on groups related to your post and get likes. You will then get further likes once someone likes your shared post on Facebook.

Also Read: Trick to share your Posts to all Facebook groups with a single Click.

Trick to get Stumbles:Well StumbleUpon is again a great source of traffic especially from USA, so you must never underestimate the power of it. To get good number of stumbles onto your posts all you need to do is just stumble your post link twice keeping a time difference of 12 hours between both the stumbles. I�m sure if your post has good content you will start receiving good stumbles.

Also Read: How to get Traffic from StumbleUpon

Trick to get Tweets to your posts. Here I�ve explained the method to get tweets to your posts. It�s really helpful and the results have been great so far.

Trick to Get 100+ Google Votes to your Posts

So we are here now!! This is what you�ve been waiting for till now. Since Google+ is a part of Google, it considers it higher than any other social network. Google+ votes are one of the main factors that can decides your social strength in the eyes of Google.

Well the trick is quite simple and let me also tell you that this method is mainly for getting votes rather than traffic from Google+.

Steps to get Google+ Votes

Join Google+ Communities. Yes!! Join some large communities having huge number of members in it. Just join all of them no matter on what topic they are.

Some Communities I recommend:

So Join around 20-30 Such Big Communities. Also Join some communities related to your blog niche.

Now go to google Image search and search for some Quotes images, Tech images, Funny Images etc and save them into your hard drive.

How to get 100+ Guaranteed Google Votes to Every Blog Post

Save the IMAGES to your HARD DRIVE

Here comes the tricky part. Open up any community and upload the image you saved earlier with your Post link.

Add your POST URL in place of <YOUR LINK>

Hit the Share button. Now you will start getting good number of Plus ones on your photo as well the link you added in the text. (What actually happens is that, the members of the community will vote your photo but since you have also added your link to it, you will get a vote to your link as well.) Isn�t it tricky??

Here are some snaps showing the votes I got by sharing the pics along with my URL.

Here is a snap showing one of my post getting 91 G+ Votes. I just uploaded 3 images with the post link and you can see the result.

Repeat this with every link and you will start getting Votes to your posts.

BONUS: You can also earn with this trick. There are many people out there at SEOCLERKS and Fiverr who are willing to pay 1$-5$ for 100 Google Plus Votes. So now you know the trick, make some gigs/services of Selling Google+ Votes and Earn money. Join SEOCLERKS Under My Link and get 5$ Free

I hope you liked this trick!! I will be waiting to hear from you. Why not help us by hitting those social buttons below, after all sharing is caring.

Hi guys, today I'm here to make you aware of a major update carried out by Google. Google Finally removed authorship images and circle counts from search results.

Google Removes Authorship Images and Circle Counts From Search Results

Google's John Mueller already announced it on 26th June that they will be dropping this feature from the search results. Here is the post by John.

How does it look Now ?

New look of Google Search Results showing only author name.

So what do you guys feel about it ?

Google Structured Data Testing Tool have also been updated now, and it now shows only the Author name linked with Google+ Profile.

Now what's next

Well this is the question that will be arising in the minds of many authors who had their aurthorship images and Circle counts in Searh results. While the others who still weren't able to get authorship seems to be quite satisfied with it.

What now !!!

It was seen that user's preffered to click more of those links that had author pics on it as it looked quite genuine and trust worthy. But what now!! The answer will be quite clear after doing a good study of our analytic reports.

It's clear that this will affect search traffic dramatically, Ranking may not be affected but yes user behaiviour towards search and their clicks will change.

Also Read: Simple Google Tweak to Reduce Bounce Rate by over 50%

Changes I need to do

Well I've seen many WordPress users having authorship plugins installed into their blogs, so Since the authorship chapter is now over I recommend you to remove those plugins as they are useless now and are just increasing your page size and load.

A search extract from WP. It cleary shows that there are 100s of such plugins and if you do some research every 5 blogger on WP is using one such plugin

Authoship Chapter is Not Completely Closed

Yes its True!!!

Yes, according to this article from Google Support, your name will be still shown in Google results and there will a small image of your's shown if you are featured in Google News.

Here is a snap showing Author Image in Google News

Also Read: 10 Overlooked Techniques of Generating High Quiaily Traffic

What Are your Views ?

Minutes after Google announced it, Webmasters from all over the globe are sharing their views on different forums. Some find it as a great step by google and agree to John Mueller words that it may improve mobile experience while many top bloggers are arguing against it.

I feel that this is a great step by Google which will help all the authors equally in search results.

What are your views on it? Reply to our tweet below.

#Google Removes Authorship Images and Circle count from Search Results. What Are your Thoughts ? #IFTISEO
� Iftekhar Ahmed (@Iftekharrm) June 29, 2014

Join the discussion, share your views in comments and let other's know about it.

Hi everybody, so what am I upto today ?? Well today I will sharing a simple tweak by which you can lower your Bounce Rate upto 70%. But before reaching there I will be sharing some simple methods to improve your bounce rate and a cool infographic from one of my favourite blogs followed by the secret tweak.

Simple Tweak To Reduce Bounce Rate by Over 50%

What is Bounce Rate ?

There are a lot of bloggers who are still not clear about what Bounce rate actually is, so let me tell you. "Bounce rate is Percentage of visitors who arrives on your blog/website and closes it without opeing any other page." or in Google's words it is "The % of single page sessions on your site."

To know more about bounce rate: Click here

So it's quite understandable that a lower bounce rate is not good for us. A bounce rate below 50% is very much acceptable and you don't have to worry about it but if you have a bounce rate above 50% then you must carry on with this post and apply the simple adjustement given below.

Common Methods to Decrease Bounce Rate (BR)

Avoid PopUps: Popups are very annonying to many visitors and they close your site once they get a popup message from your blog.

Internal Linking: It is indeed a great way to encourage your readers to open further links and ultimately lower your BR. Try to do interlink atleast 3 of your links in every post.

Responsive Theme/Template: Use responsive templates that works well on all platforms and resolutions.

Use Related Posts Widget/Plugin: Use such widgets to further encourage your readers to read more of your posts. We use LinkWithin blogger widget in our blogs

Write Short Paragraphs: We are not saying to write less number of words but yes do write small paragraphs as many a times viewers feel lazy after seeing a long para and thus leave your blog which again lowers your BR.

Improve Loading Time: This again is an important factor responsible for your high bounce rates. Increase your page load time by removing unnecessary third party widgets or plugins.

Color and Font properties: Improve your site's look by using attractive colors that would not look dizzy. Change your font size and style such that your content looks more readable and attractive. You can change your blogger font properties using this method.

Search Box: Offer a search box to your readers that will again help them to find more content on your blog.

Relevant Content: Always post relevant content on your blog. Off-topic posts will easily lead to increase in bounce rate.

Show Popular posts: Make use of your sidebar effectively by showing a list of popular posts from your blog, research shows that every blog visitors looks for the most popular posts of a blog.

Still not satisfied !!! reader satisfaction is our main aim, I have embedded an infographic from QuickSprout which will surely help you further in improving your bounce rate.

There is a special tweak for you that will lower your BR by 70% after this infographic.

Courtesy of: Quick Sprout

Tweak to Lower Bounce Rate upto 60%

Let me tell you that this tweak was released by an Analytics insights team member officially so there is nothing to be afraid of.

How does it Actually works ?

Before trying anything related to codes it's very important to know what will be the code doing. So let me explain you in short.

Do you feel that the system or algorithm of Bounce rate is somewhat unfair ? I mean if someone is looking for a particular thing on google and he finds your post, read it and solve his problem, then its quite natural that he will close your blog coz his work/problem etc is solved. But What !!! Google will count it as a Bounce and add it to your Bounce Rate.

What should actually be the criteria for Bounce Calculation according to me ?

Well Its simple, I would like to consider a visit as a bounce only if the visitor closes the site after some period of time say 10 seconds or so, that would mean that the visitor doesn't like your content or he fails to find what he was looking for. Don't you think it will be fair ?? I would appreciate comments on this issue.

So this trick/tweak does the same, it will make the visit a bounce only if your site get closed within 10 seconds (you can easily change the time as per your wish). One more thing this code does is, it will discard the visit as bounce once a viewer scrolls the page.

Google's team and others call it as "Adjusted Bounce Rate"

How to implement it on YOUR BLOG ?

This is how the original analytics code looks like:

1. Replace the above code with this code or the one given below

2. Or replace it with this code

var _gaq = _gaq || [];

_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1']);

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

setTimeout("_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', '15_seconds', 'read'])",10000);

(function() {

var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;

ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

})();

</script>

CODE 1: It will count a visit as a bounce only if the site is closed under 10 seconds. It will disregard a visit as a bounce if the user scrolls the page. It means if the visitor scrolls your post but closes it under 10 seconds it will still NOT be treated as Bounce

CODE 2: This code will behave as the above code but without the scroll option.

Just Replace the XXXXXX with your analytics ID and save the changes. Our code will count the visits as bounce only if the visitor closes the site under 10 seconds. You can change the time as well by changing the value of "10000" to your required choice.

Note: 1000 = 1 Second

We recommend to set it at 15 seconds.

Sources: AlltechBuzz and Analytics.blogspot.com

Final Words

I have tried these codes on my own blog and the results I've got are really amazing. My blog's bounce rate came from 65% to 20% just after implementing the code. I would recommend you all to try the code and share the results with me.

Change seen after applying the tweak.

Old Bounce Rate

New Bounce Rate

So the changes to my bounce rate can be seen clearly, You can see a huge drop in the second pic, it was due to the fact I changed the time from 15 to 10 seconds. I got a bounce rate of 4.26% on that day.

So it's upto you How you use the code, but one thing is sure after reading this post and trying the tips and methods your bounce rate will drop surely. I hope you liked this post, since this tweak is still not known by many bloggers and webmasters I want you to spread the word by sharing the post using our social sharing buttons below. Your's thoughts in comments are always appreciated.

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Social networking sites are one of the best mediums or sources to get targeted traffic from but are you getting social shares specially G+ and tweets?

Facebook sharing is quite easy, share your posts on all groups and you will get a decent amount of traffic.

But have you ever wondered how some blogs gets a large number of tweets and G+ in just no time. You might have seen many posts with a high number of G+ shares and tweets as well. So do you want to know the secret?

Get More Tweets And Google Plus Ones To Your Posts

Also Read: How to get High Quality Backlinks

Well recently I came across this trick and I was amazed to see many top bloggers using it to get tweets and G+ ones. So as usual I always share the tricks I find helpful and this time it�s the Trick to get high number of Google +1 and tweets to your posts.

Simple Steps to Get High Number of Google +1 and tweets:

Firstly, all you have to do is signup at JustRetweet and set up your profile accordingly. It�s a site same as AddMeFast, but it�s basically used by bloggers and other online IM experts to promote their business, with everything real here unlike AddMeFast where people use fake ID�s to collect points.

Before promoting your posts, you have to collect some points. So to collect points go to Dashboard. You will now see a list of twitter posts shared by other bloggers and members of the site. Its upto you now, on how you collect points. You can Facebook Like, Google +1 or retweet their posts and collect points. If you want to be in your niche, you can select your category from the categories list. It�s really easy to collect 5000 points in 10 minutes. This way you are not only just collecting points to set up your own shares but you are also promoting other blog posts which is a good aspect of blogging.

How To Get More Tweets And Google Plus Ones To Your Posts

Once you have enough points (atleast 1000) you can setup your own share. Go to Submit Tweet link and type the tweet you want to be shared/ReTweeted(RT) including your post link (Use HASHTAGS for more exposure). Set the number of credits you want to give for a single share (Google+ 1, FB like, Tweet). I usually prefer between 40-80 credits per share. Now select the number of times you want your posts to be shared and the networks where you want it to be shared.

Advantages of this trick

Your tweet will be ReTweeted by many of the top bloggers with a large number of followers which simply gives a lot of exposure of your blog to other�s in your niche.

Your social sharing buttons/Plugins will show high numbers which will make your post look worthy.

You will get targeted traffic to your posts.

It will help you build relationships with some top bloggers.

So this was a simple little trick which many TOP bloggers use. I have seen Harleena Mam of AhaNow, Zac Johnson, Nirmala Mam, BlogEngage and many other top bloggers using Justretweet and I have got many ReTweets from them as well. Are you still confused about the advantages of it?

The best part is that there are no spam members or profiles on this site. I have been using this trick from the past 1 week and I have experienced positive results from the first day itself. Here is a screenshot showing some of my shares.

I guess by now you are very much impressed by this trick and you all will be looking to try your hands on it.

Some other sites like JustRetweet.com

Retweet.it

Easy Retweet

Ad Retweet

I hope you liked my post, do share with others and leave your suggestions below in comments.

�So are website builders SEO-friendly?�

�Which website builder performs best from an SEO standpoint?�

These are probably the most common questions I get asked from aspiring webmasters. Frankly speaking, there are no black-and-white answers to these tricky questions, as everything depends on so many things. I have been in the website builders business for a long time and I have been involved with reviewing dozens of site construction kits, but I can�t still give a straight answer to this question.

One of the biggest issues I face when tackling the topic is that some site owners believe that their SEO outcomes will uniquely depend on SEO capabilities of the chosen platform, not their individual actions. This is wrong, but I don�t blame them, since many website builders are actually misleading potential customers adding those �Super SEO-Friendly� badges to their landing pages. But what exactly stands behind these badges? The ability to specify meta tags and rewritable URLs? Let�s take a closer look at website builders to see if their usage can influence your SEO campaign.

Things That Matter

As I see it, website success doesn�t solely depend on web design tools you use to create your website - it�s more dependent on the product you promote and marketing tactics you use. However, we shouldn�t underestimate the importance of using cutting edge, SEO-friendly web design technologies which are fortunately being implemented into the market of website builders pretty quickly.

1. Web Technologies

When speaking about web design technologies I mean staying away from Flash (or al least using less Flash) and using more �digestible� or engine-friendly programming languages instead. You�ll be surprised to learn that in olden times many website builders used to be exclusively Flash-based services (until Flash was proven to be SEO-unfriendly). Take Wix for instance. It had been using a platform based on Adobe Flash till March 2012. Since then it has been using HTML5.

2. On-Page SEO Features

When picking a site builder, pay attention to what we call �SEO blocks� or �SEO packs�. Typically, these allow users to easily insert meta tags: title, description and keywords. Website builders with advanced SEO capabilities, like uCoz for example, in addition to the standard features, allow site owners to use a noindex meta tag that prevents all robots from indexing the chosen page. With uCoz you can use this tag on the �Modules level�. In simple terms, you can appoint it for your e-Shop, Forum, Blog or any other structural unit - there�s no need to set it for each single page manually.

3. Off-Page SEO Features

You may think that site builders have nothing to do with off-page SEO. But they do. Certain website builders, namely Yola, provide their upgraded users with Google AdWords and Facebook credits to help them promote their growing business.

Actually, each website builder has its own, unique mix of SEO features and perks. Some offer easy robots.txt file upload and editing, while others provide automatic SEO monitoring. What I was trying to tell with this post is that sitebuilders doesn�t differ dramatically from WordPress and other popular CMS used for website creation in terms of SEO. It�s your marketing skills, business goals and ambitions that help gain better results. Focus on your product, generate great, engaging content and your efforts will be rewarded, sooner or later :).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard Steele is the owner of SuperbWebsiteBuilders, a website dedicated to DIY site builders reviews and comparisons.