View Status Updates of Specific Circles in Google Plus

One more plus of Google Plus compared with Facebook is you get the privilege to view status updates (or we called it Streams) from only certain group of people (circles) you decided.

This feature is really useful if you have so many friends and your stream flooding by unimportant status so you can easily divide your stream to just showing updates from specific person you like.

Lets see how to view streams of specific circles in Google+.

First, log into your Google Plus account. On your homepage, as default, you will view all the updates by people who are in all your circles.

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 Get Direct Link of Status Updates in Google Plus

Whenever you want to share your interesting post or from your circles status updates you can use direct link to these single post address to show it to your friends outside of Google+.

But the problem is, where you can get direct link address of status updates in Google Plus?

Unlike another social networking like Facebook or Twitter which the direct links to these specific updates are almost "hidden", Google+ is more "open" about it.

Let me show you how to get direct link of status updates in Google Plus in simple way:

Share Updates with Specific Circles in Google Plus

If in Facebook we know something called "News Feed", then in Google Plus we called it "Stream". Where all the latest updates by those who are in your circle are displayed in this area.

If we talk about privacy control, then as when you post status updates in Facebook you get a Privacy Lock with the use of which you can define with whom you are comfortable in sharing those update.

Similar in Google Plus, if you want to make control your share stream with people whom only you want, you can do it very easy in Google Plus. But with one advantage: you are allowed to share these updates with many people at once and without the effort of creating those lists and groups. Sounds good right?

Here is how you do it:

How to Delete Google Plus Account?

I'm not hoping you will close and delete your Google+ account, of course. But, if you are because of some reasons, that's your choice and in this post I just want to show you how to do that.

For some people this topic may not sound very much interesting and attractive but believe me it is really important. Google Plus is so much integrated into other services of Google like Gmail and Google Search, so deleting your Google+ account may affect these services too but won't straight off close that services unless you also choose that option too.

In order to delete your Google Plus account we will proceed step by step. After logging into your Google+ account, from the top right corner click on your avatar then select Account settings:

How to Stop Google Plus Notifications?

Google will send you an e-mail or SMS notification for every activities on your G+ account. So if you had lots of active users in your Google+ Circles, it mights will flooding your e-mail inbox or make peoples arround you disturbed by your cellphone's ring.

By default Google Plus enable email notification for all users and sending email if your account have any changes like post sharing, comments on posts, photo tagging and so on. This post will tell you how you can stop e-mail and SMS notification from Google Plus. You can easily stop these email notification using these simple steps.

Steps to Stop Google Plus E-mail and SMS Notification

Disable-Enable Comments on Google Plus Posts

In some of my previous posts I've already told you that Google+ provides many privacy settings in your account to protects their users. And unlike Facebook, Google+ account settings is very easy and simple to understand. My last post about this was on how to disable/enable reshare on Google+.

And now, I will tell you one more privacy settings in Google Plus. After read this post, you can disable or enable comments on any posts of your stream. Unfortunately until now there's no way to disable/enable comments for all posts together in one single click. Hope in the next update Google will launch this feature.

Let's begin!

Google Plus Widget: Put Circles & Live Feed on Web

In last couple weeks, you can see I have added a section named "Circles" in the right sidebar of this blog. This section contain an invitation to join into my Circles in Google+ and also showed summary of my friends in the circles.

This is a sweet customizable Google+ widget made by a guy called Chris Kanger. You can also add this Google+ widget to your website or blog which will make it easy for your site visitors to add you to their circles so you can build your relationship with them.

This widget can also showing your latest Stream feed updates. And the big plus of the new widget from this widget like I said before is that it is customizable. Which mean you can change the sizes, font, colors, title text and even the size and color of the button so the widget blends with your site design.

Do you want it?

How to Delete Posts From Google Plus Stream?

Until today I published more than 60 posts on Google Plus so that my visitors can use all features of Google Plus without any prob. Not only the posts that contain serious things, I also write about simple things that are sometimes reputed by some people does not important to discuss.

But I believe there are many novice users that came to my blog to find something they need to know. And I should give them what they need using simple explanation that can be understand by them.

Just like this post. As advanced users, maybe you don't need this information but please let me explain for our another friend who still need to know how to delete posts from Google Plus. Or if someday -for some reason- you forgot how to do this, it is always still be a good point :D

Now, follow these steps below of how to remove posts from Google Plus stream/wall:

How to Block Persons on Google Plus?

Google+ allows you to remove or block any persons from your post wall to protect your privacy from specified users.

You can easily use this feature for any reason you want. And once you blocked someone from your stream, you should know what will happens:

1. You won't see their content in the stream or on Incoming (even though you'll remain in their circles).
2. They'll be removed from any circles of yours that they appear in.
3. They'll be removed from your extended circles even if you have mutual connections.
4. They won't be able to comment on your content that was posted after they were blocked.
5. The content you've previously shared with them will still be visible in their stream. But they can't engage with the post (comment, etc.)
6. They won't be able to view content shared with your circles (although they may still see content you post publicly).
7. They won't be able to mention you in posts or comments.

How to Disable/Enable Reshare on Google Plus Posts

In Google+ you can share any awesome posts from your Stream for your friends circle. You can use this option easily to distribute any good posts you liked over circles.

If you are a blogger then it most important feature for you because it can improves your blog visitors and everyone knows that social media play important role in website or blog success.

But sometime we want some post private only on our wall. And don't worry, that issue has been solved by Google also. You can use Disable reshare option feature in Google Plus. Of course you won't find this feature in Facebook (lol).

Check out the tutorial after the jump.

How to Send Google Plus Invitation?

It is almost 2 months after Google released Google+ with invitation only system and millions user already joined there. But, I don't know what happen with some of my friends that still asking me how to send Google Plus invitation to their friends?

But it's ok, in this tutorial we will discuss about 2 (two) various ways through which you can send invitations to your friends or contacts through Google Plus. Below tutorials are the basic of how to send Google+ invitation. Because there are more several ways to invite your friends based on different e-mail service provider protocols. If you think it's necessary to discuss, I'll show you in next posts.

Lets begin with the tutorial!

As I have already written a lot of tutorials about Google Plus, all you have to do first is of course log in to your Google+ account. Click here to log in, then follow these steps below:

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.

How to Change Language Settings in Google Plus?

Actually Google will sets up our Google+ interface language automatically based on our country and language setting in web browser we used.

But, if your Google+ interface is in the wrong language or you just want to change the language into your own mother tongue, you can simply change it from Google Plus settings page with just few clicks.

The more exciting is Google+ has supported more than 42 languages and you can set up more than one language on your single Google+ account with one primary language selected. So you should find and use your favorite languages there.

Here's how to change language settings in Google Plus:

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.

How to Play Games on Google Plus?

Games is one of most favorite feature wished by millions of Google+ users. And finally Google announced that they has released online games for Google+, even still gradually to its users.

Till now, there are 16 total games available to play on Google+. They are:
Angry Birds, Bejeweled Blitz Beta, Bubble Island, City of Wonder, Collapse! Blast, Crime City, Diamond Dash, Dragon Age Legends, Dragons of Atlantis, Edgeworld, Flood-It!, Monster World, Sudoku Puzzles, Wild Ones, Zombie Lane, and Zynga Poker.

Most of Games on Google+ is easy to play and understand. In this post, I'll tell you how to play games on Google+ and I'm choosing Angry Birds -as most popular game in mobile games market- for the example.

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 Recover Your Suspended Google+ Profile?

Yay, today I've got my Google+ profile back!!

As I've posted before, Google has suspended my Google+ profile for reason as not using my real name and use Google+ official logo as my profile picture. But then I tried to edit my profile name, deleting profile descriptions and change my profile image. Last, clicked on "submit your profile" link in the red box for reconsideration.

Apparently only in less than 24 hours my account was active again!

If you had same problems with me, you can also try like what I did in this post to recover your suspended Google+ profile back. But if this way not working, you can try this brief step by step below:

How to Add Google +1 (Plus One) Button on Blogger

If this is the first time you heard about Google +1 please read this article first: What is Google +1 (Plus One) Button?.

Why Should I add the Google +1 Button?

Now if you have further question, why should I add the Google +1 button on my blog? Well, at least there are 2 (two) reasons:

First, The +1 (Plus One) button will have a major impact on your Google search results. When a friend of yours does a search in Google, your +1s will count and show.

Second, You can get a detailed report about the +1 metric and how it affects your search traffic over at Google Webmaster Tools.

The main reason is more to promote our blog, of course.