Display Google Plus Profile Button in Blogger.com

Recently I have posted about "How to Create Google Plus Profile Button?" for general use.

Now, in this post we will learn the example of how to display google plus profile button in Blogger.com's blog so that your blogger friends can adding you into their Google+ circles and follow your stream.

Let's start the tutorial..

First of all you will need to get your Google Plus profile button code in HTML format.

How to Create Google Plus Profile Button?

Google Plus profile button function is to tell your friends that you have Google+ account then let them follow and adding you into their circles.

But unfortunately, unlike Facebook that provides you badges to put on your site, so the visitors can view your profile and can send you friend request as well, Google Plus does not have any badge system yet. But don't worry, we can use a simple trick using Google Profile button.

Yes, its actually used for Google Profile, but because Google has made Google+ as default profile page for its users covers up Google Profile, so we can also use it for Google+ profile page.

Get Google Plus Stream Updates via RSS Feed

Nowadays if we want to check updates from our Google+'s circles, we need to open their stream one by one. Of course it's serious problems because it takes lots of time, moreover if we have many friends to followed.

RSS feed is one solution for this problem. RSS is most popular option for get latest updates from any website or blog on internet and we can used it to follow a specific user on the new social networking site also. But unfortunately RSS feeds are not officially supported by Google+ yet. That's bad of course.

RSS feed subscribe option is still on the process of developing Google+ project with another service like API, media player plug in and everything in between. But we can try a service that turns a stream into an RSS feed using third party applications.

10 Sites to Create Shortened Google+ Profile URL

The main benefit of shortened URL is to make it easier for you to send this URL to your friends without having to remember for your Google profile id (the 21 digit number in the URL) like:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106629607806000497486/posts

But unlike Facebook where you can have your profile URL short like http://www.facebook.com/username, Google don't have any official vanity URL for our Google+ profiles. So we have to use third party apps to shortened our Google+ profile URL. If you don't want to use any third party applications, you can see another tricks, using Google Profiles option or redirecting from your own domain name.

Here are 10 Sites to Create Shortened Google Plus Profile URL:

How to Create Short Google+ URL using Your Own Domain?

Previously I've posted two ways how to short Google+ profile URL, using Google Profiles option and using Gplus.to as a third party application.

In this post, I want to share with you the another way. This guide will show you how to create a short URL on your own web host that will redirect to Google Plus. So be sure you already have your own domain like .com, .net, .info or else and have access to your hosting server (no matter you rent or you get it free).

After completing these instructions, when someone types in http://www.yourdomain.com/myusername, they will be automatically redirected to your G+ profile page.

How to Import Facebook Friends to Google+?

I believe you already have many friends in your Facebook account. Hundreds? Thousands maybe? Well, there might be a "lonely feel" when you opened your Google+ account right? This is because your friends still not join in Google+ or maybe there was no body inviting them. That's can be also the reason you are not so enjoying Hangout or Huddle in Google+.

So why don't you start to invite your Facebook friends to join Google+?

Ah, yeah... inviting one by one will waste so much time and also needs lot of energy. Now, if you are wondering how to import data contacts from Facebook to Google+ easily, just follow these few simple steps.

How to Update Facebook Status from Google+? (2)

This is my second post about "How to Update Facebook Status from Google+?". And different from previous post, this time I will show you how to do it by using third-party applications.

Thanks for crossrider.com who has launched this apps!

But, hopefully the applications used in this tutorial will still work, considering Facebook being aggressively blocking applications that attempt to extract their users contact data to Google+. If not, you can still follow on my previous manual tips by clicking this link: "How To Update Facebook Status from Google+?".

Allright then, now follow these steps:

How To Update Facebook Status from Google+?

For those who have joined and enjoying Google+ (Google Plus) services, you may have read some news about Facebook's certain efforts to block some applications to move Facebook's data contacts to Google+. Facebook's defense efforts still might continue.

But there is one facility that is hard to be blocked up, Facebook update status using email delivery. This facility can be easily exploited by Google+ users to post or update your Facebook status directly from Google+ status simultaneously. This method is also open to update Twitter status all at once.

To outsmarting this you can follow these steps:

Shortened Google Plus Username Using Gplus.to

In this previous post we use Google Profiles to change and make a custom of our Google+ page URL. But for you who are not activate Google Profiles before creating Google+ you can't use that way. Fortunately there is a website named "GPlus.to" who give us very smart solution.

Gplus.to is a service that shortens your Google+ profile URL into a neat, easy to remember link. To create your shortened URL, all you have to do is giving Gplus.to your Google+ profile ID, it will generate an URL in the format gplus.to/yourusername. You can set whatever name you want as long as it is still available.

How to Set a Custom Username for Google+ Profile?

One of Google+ lack when compared to Facebook is no facility to change the username. In Facebook, we can easily access http://www.facebook.com/username to create our custom URL profile page to get prettier than default one.

But in Google+ its quite difficult to do that. So, until now, my Google+ address still use its own default URL like this:

» https://plus.google.com/106629607806000497486/

How do you see that? Quite ugly and difficult to remember right? I just hope this lack will shortly fixed by Google because I can't imagine how can I share my Google+ with that long numbers address.

How To Send Private Message in Google+?

Unlike Facebook, Twitter, or another social networks, Google+ has no private message (PM) feature specified. This can be understandable because Google+ also does not like other social networking, its fully integrated with all Google services, including Gmail. So maybe more because of this reason Google does not deem it necessary to include a personal message facility into Google+. Users can easily use Gmail if they want to send the messages.

But, you can make a simple little trick to make your stream/status only viewed and commented by someone you want also other person can't see this post at all. Let's do it!