Google Profile – A Must have Marketing Tool
Web marketers, all across the globe look for ways and means to enhance their web presence, popularise their business and gain positive online exposure. Some do it through their websites, while others prefer to achieve the same through regular and dedicated blogging. Whatever be the case, the motivating factor is always to reach out to a larger audience. Now, Google Profile makes this even easier!
Irrespective of whether you have a website or a blog, you can build yourself a highly customised web presence thanks to Google’s Profile feature.
What is Google Profile?
The Google Profile service launched by Google enables you to design your own Personal Profile page on Google that helps you to choose exactly what information should be provided when someone searches for your name on Google.
Simply put, your Google profile administers how you are presented on the various Google products. This is the information that can be seen by all other Google users.
By creating a Google Profile, you get to tell web searchers who you are. The great thing about this feature is that it lets you have complete control over the nature of information presented. If you do not want to make your Address and other contact details public, you don’t have to! Just mention your email id and you are reachable without being over accessible! Moreover, you can also control who can and cannot see your personal details.
How Does It Work?
Google Profile enables you to hand pick every piece of information that you would like to share about yourself, each time someone searches for you on Google, using your name or other keywords associated with you. This way, you provide the right information to people.
- Go to http://www.google.com/profiles
- Click on “Create my profile”
- Customise the page with the information that you would like to share about yourself with anyone who might search for you on Google
- Enjoy your very OWN and highly customised Google Profile!
Once you have logged in to your Google Profile account, you can start entering your details.
Some of the features under Google profile include:
- Once you enable the ‘Send a Message’ feature, you can keep your email hidden and still, receive emails from other Google mail users.
- You can make your profile more impressive by adding photos from Google Image applications such as Picasa or Flickr.
- You can customise your personal profile page by adding a short bio about yourself.
- You can add your most current contact details and control who can see it.
- Using this feature, you can link to your other Google web properties on the net. This includes links to your Blogger blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages. Now all your friends need to do is to visit your Google Profile page and connect with you via different online tools.
- The ‘My Places’ feature helps to share information about your present as well as past locations.
You no longer need to fret about not finding yourself on Google searches whenever you search for your name!
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