More websites Using Google Friend Connect
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3,000,000 websites using Google Friend Connect
With millions of websites using Google Friend Connect, it's the newest frontier in the Social Mediascape.
Google friend connect, or GFC for short brings the Social Traffic to your site.
In this HUB I'm going to cover:
- Why websites are using Google Friend Connect
- How to find websites using Google Friend Connect
- How you can start using Google Friend Connect on your site
More about Google Friend Connect
Why are websites using Google Friend Connect?
There are well over 3,000,000 websites using Google Friend Connect.
The future of Social Media is in our hands. Websites using Google Friend Connect are the new social media networks. Logging in to multiple accounts on various networks will soon be a thing of the past.
Today, if you're using Google Friend connect you have the power to build a community around your website. This is especially good for those niche markets.
Google has a wide range of products and they're using Google Friend Connect to tie everything together. Think about it, you can go from surfing the web, to joining a google friend connect community, to making a new friend, to emailing them, then video chatting them ALL on Google products.
In the words of Simon U Ford,"Google Friend Connect is the subway system that links all the Social Networks toegether."
How to find Websites Using Google Friend Connect
The Google Search Engine: Just type"Websites Using Google Friend Connect" into the google search bar and you'll have plenty of sites to chose from. This is the least effective way.
Google Friend Connect Directories: The three main directories are Friend Connect Central, Friend Connect Directory, and Roaming Heads.
Roaming heads is my favorite becuase they have a very robust community of thought leaders and influencers on the team. This community is actually out scouring the internet to find the coolest GFC sites. This is what I call human powered search.
Joining the GFC community: This is by far the most effective way to find websites using Google Friend Connect. It's easy, go to ANY website with the GFC widget and "join." Once you're in, you can look around for friends, click on their heads and see where they've been.
SPECIAL REPORT
Stop right there!
For a limited time get this Special Report on using Google Friend connect, CLICK HERE.
In this special report you'll learn:
- How to set up your GFC account
- How to set up your links
- How to get a backstage pass to Eventslisted.
I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to give this away, CLICK HERE before they make me take this page down.
After reading the special report you can add Google Friend Connect to your website. The good news is you don't need to be a programmer or techie to do it. All you have to do is watch these videos and you'll have Google Friend Connect on your site in no time flat.
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Good explanation... I now have Google Friend Connect widget on our site at SocialMarketingWizards.com. Can you guess which platform we are using to promote social marketing? You guessed it - Eventslisted.com along with the master of social marketing, Simon Ford. I love this virtual landscape.
Great article Jonathan. It really explains the benefit of Google Friend Connect.
Hey Guys, thanks for checking out the page. It's my first Hub Page and I'm really digging it. Thank goodness for Simon's article marketing course...I had almost forgot how cool Hub Pages are.
Very good Jonathan.Thanks for telling us wehre to go to find other sites uisng GFC.
Leaving the info on using it and setting it up was a bonus.
Rebecca
Excellent advice, Jonathan. It's great that we can find other websites using GFC by going through one of the directories you mentioned. Good point that Google Friend Connect is but one of Google's great tools for connecting to your friends and contacts. It's really changing how we interact, since we'll have all our contacts in one place and be able to chat, email, invite, etc. all through Google tools.
Best,
Jennifer
Jonathan, you did an awesome job with this Hubpage, in fact, it makes mine look sickly. Thank you for raising the bar!
WOW, I just had my Hub Pages account suspended for containing commercial content. Apparently this is a "commercial site" which needs to have ad levels set on HIGH.
For all you hubbers out there, make sure you keep an eye on that so you stay out of trouble.
Anyways, after a couple of emails the HUBpages team got back in touch with me and reactivated my account on "probation." Yeah, that's right...I'm on probation with HUBpages.
Hey Johnathan,
Great article... I love the Special Report you have there. Clear instructions for starting up!
Hi Jonathan, thanks for this. It looks like you went through a good learning experience on this one, that we can all learn from! Let me pose the idiot question! Any suggestions on how to effectively share content and connect with our buddies on GFC??? Thanks. Anne
Hi Jonathan: Looks like you're busying making lemonade out of the situation HubPages put you through. It's a lovely thing to see -- an inspirational driver for the rest of us.
Now, regarding this article: To say "Excellent, Jonathan. Way to go." is accurate but it doesn't really say much. Your article deserves more than that.
I'm not sure comments are supposed to be evaluative or not, but here's my take:
1.) I like the flow of how you move from sub-topic to sub-topic crescendo-like, ending with the big Cymbal-bang of your Special Report.
2.) I LOVE your hierarchical expression of the different ways people can find websites using GFC. It's not only great information but it moves the reader through a smooth channel slide directly (as mentioned) into your Special Report. Wonderful set up.
3.) You even include a sense of urgency. Brilliant (as they say 'cross the pond)!
More important than ALL of what I've said above is this fact: NOW I know what to do with my own GFC connection! I've had it, but didn't have the knowledge needed to THINK in it -- I hadn't learned enough of its language until reading THIS hub. For this reason, I nominate it as a GFC "MUST READ."
Peace and Love and Thank You, Jonathan,
DeeJay
I found the roaming heads was alot of fun investigating, love this hub and the graphics used.
Very nicely done Jonathan...I am looking to learn a great deal more from you...inspiration at it's finest !!!
What a great refresher course on GFC and an example for me to follow in setting up a hub page. I like the suggestions re: eliminating the google ads. I'm sorry that you had to pay for it with a suspension.
Anne: Suggestions for connecting with friend on Google Friend Connect...
I have a few..
1. One thing is to make sure you have it installed on your blog. That's the most important.
2. Google Friend Connect is like any other Social Network. You get what you out into it. It's good to go to the GFC widget, find your friends, and click on their heads. Visit some of the sites they're at and leave a comment (an insightful, or playful comment...not spammy.)
3. Once you install the widget be sure to register your site at the directories listed above.
Oooh Oooh, one more...
Stay close to me an keep an eye on @Social_Traffic on twitter. We're relaunching the Roaming Heads and we're featuring 10 sites from our team for the tour.
Simon is going to send more info on that in the upcoming call to action email.
Wow DeeJay,
For once I'm speachless. Your thoughtful comments and compliments have made me blush =)
Seriously, I appreciate your feedback. I think hub pages are great for people who like simple visual cues. I put my content together always taking into consideration what it looks like and how it flows. For you to notice that is a big compliment.
As a marketer I find that I NEED a call to action. Why put my thoughts on "paper" if there's no point?
Come on, think about it...I did all this work to create a good page, made sure my keywords and SEO were good...I get you here...and then that's it? NO WAY! Once I have your attention I have to tell you what I want you to do.
On this page the Call to acion is the "Special Report" which I want my readers to view so they know more about Google Friend Connect.
Hmmm...am I talking too much? I just wanted to give you some insight on my thought process. Thanks for bringing out the best in me.
Yes, you have definitely taken a bad situation with being "on probation" and turned it into a learning situation for all of us. You really made me realize more about the power of Google Friend Connect and how to really use it. Do you know if there are specifications to what websites we can install the GFC widget? I know we can install it on blogs- how about Squidoo? How about business websites? I'm opening my mind to the potential of GFC.
:~) Robin
Robin,
You can install it on commercial websites (just check out eventlisted.com and SocialTraffic.biz.) It's just code after all.
I don't think you can put it on Squidoo or Hubpages though. You can get most of the information from google at http://tinyurl.com/b5985s
Hey Jonathan,
Thanks for your insightful article on how to optimize the use of Google's "Friend Connect" website and blog connection social media widget.
I'll need to reread it so that I can begin the step-by-step Social Traffic, Inc.-EventsListed GFC optimization praxis.
Until then,Cheers
Hi Jonathon
After all the valuable information you shared, when I came to your 'special report' I fully anticipated being taken to a squeeze page before getting access. Let me say that based on what went before your special report, I would have been fully prepared to give up my email address in exchange for access to it. Now that I've seen the blueprint - especially the stratety - you laid out for GFC, I need to get to work. Thanks for sharing!
Best regards,
Duncan
Hey Jonathna
That looks familair. I liked it already when you showed me your work for the handbook, and this is just as nice. Congratulations. I have had a hub page since the first time going through the training. I don't get points on Simon's list for it, but I still think it is a great place to paste articles and increase the link juice
DUNCAN: Thanks for the great feedback. I am really enjoying HUB pages, I think I may have found a new "Home away from Home."
I'm glad the information moved you through the funnel and had you ready to act. That's what it's all about...getting people to act.
Alex: Tell me more about the Digg functionality, I haven't looked into it. What's your take on it?
Jonathan this is a well thought-out article on why and how to use Google Friend Connect. Hey, this makes everyone with a web page want to use this tool.
I always appreciate your bright ideas and information. Thank you!
Linda
Jonathan, this is really good stuff. You present the material is an easy to read, easy to understand way. I learned much just by reading your post.
Well done
Thanks Jonathan.Great hub.Have refriended you
Off to work on my blog before all those roaming heads visit it
Great posting, thank you! I love how everything is becoming connected to help build stronger communities.
I love GFC! I just found out about it a week ago. I incorporated it into my site's article section because I wanted to let my readers leave comments. I tried other scripts but couldn't integrate them into my site. Only GFC worked! Now the site has a comment field without me having to program anything: http://www.cyrenorganics.com/index.php/skincare-ar
Those GFC communities look interesting.. I didn't even know they existed til now haha, gotta check them out
TomVarga 3 years ago
Great article Jonathon! Explained very well on the why's, how's to finds and the how to get it installed and using the widget!
If you know about this widget, why are you not using it yet? Get on it and dont be left in the dust. This is the future of communications.