Google Plus Opens to Brands and Businesses

By Yosef Solomon on Nov 10, 2011

For many of us, Google+ was a cool new alternative to Facebook, with features like “Circles” and “Hangouts,” it became the cool kid on the block once again. But in the last few months, the hype kind of died down and with the recent Facebook redesigns, iPad app and mobile improvements, Google seemed to be of no competition. Until this week…

Google+ introduced “Pages” for brands and businesses earlier this week, making what many predicted as Google’s version of Facebook Pages.

The verdict is still out on how effective Google Pages will be for brands and businesses, but I’d imagine many companies will soon adopt their own Google Page. Especially with the valuable SEO value that will come of this. It’s a Google product directed at businesses and brands, so I’d imagine it would carry a nice amount of SEO weight.

I’ll be creating a few product pages in the next few days and be sure to report on my experience. In the meantime check out this cool post by Sean Percival on an early Google Brand Concept Page he created a few months back.