Now that the site is active, I decided it was time to find a way to promote my Google Plus account. After some research I found several ways to do that. There are several plugins that will do it, but I found the simplest way to do it was through a site called Google Plus Statistics<\/a>. They offer a simple widget that you can add to your website or blog by adding some code. You can see the widget in action on the sidebar to your right?\u00a0 –><\/p>\n \u201cGoogle+ Statistics tracks the top 100 users on Google<\/strong>+. Just add yourself so they can start tracking your own Google+ statistics too. See how many people added you in their circles, your progression and where you rank in the list of popular Google+ users.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n To get your Google Plus Widget, copy your Google Plus Profile ID and added it to the site. Once you have added it, you can create your widget. Over the next few hours, it will compile your data so you can see how well you are doing compared to other Google Plus users.<\/p>\n Google Plus Network has been in beta for almost a month and it looks like its here to stay. It\u2019s getting so popular, big name probloggers are leaving Facebook to go full time with Google Plus. Are you using Google Plus Network? If so, how much time are you spending on there? For me, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36],"tags":[915,897,931],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-social-media","tag-google-plus-network","tag-google-plus-social-network","tag-promoting-google-plus-one-profiles","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPdG-Tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Google Plus Statistics?<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nHow to Get your Google Plus Widget<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Once you have your code, then all you have do is add that code to your website. If you are using WordPress<\/a>, you can add that code through the widgets tab in the admin area. Then place the code where ever you want on your sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"