Most Useful Google+ Tools
Less than a week ago, the world got access to Google+ and we already have some nasty tools to make the Google+ experience much more amazing.
Most of them are Google Chrome extensions
- Facebook Friends Exporter : The most controversial chrome extension which exports all your Facebook friends to Google Contacts which helps you get all your friends in your ‘Friends’ Circle easily. Being very useful for all those who plan to move from Facebook to Google+, Facebook somehow managed to block its use all over thus making the developer Mohamed Mansour to work on it again and make it work.
P.S. : Depending on your Facebook ‘popularity’ the time varies, it’s a slow process but worth it.
- Google Plus Bar : This is a very simple and neat bookmarklet which adds an audio/video bar on top of your Google+ stream. For now the following channels are available, Amazing Radio, DFH Radio, Grooveshark, BBC News and TWiT livestream options.
- Google+ Photo Zoom : Images are posted in fixed size on Google+ and there is no way you could zoom those and check them if needed. So this is a very simple chrome extension which allows you to zoom any photo published on your stream. Just move your mouse over the image and +Photo Zoom would do its work.
- Google+ Vanity URL : Sharing your profile with anyone is difficult, Google+ profiles are linked via the profile id which is a long number. This gets annoying when you have to type in your Google+ profile link anywhere. An official vanity url might come but till then we have this simple web app to make it easy.
- Surplus : The notifications on Google+ are amazing, but to actually have them pop up on your browser, you need to be on one of the Google websites. Making this more easy and helping Google+ get more addictive, this chrome extension lets you access your notifications and make a new post anywhere on internet. So, this extension lets you check, read, comment and share without actually visiting any google website.
- SocialStatistics : Just like twittercounter.com, socialstatistics tracks all the Google+ users and analyse all the present users. The site claims Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed person on Google+ i.e. hes is most of the user Circles. Go check it out, it’s a fun website and would let you follow so awesome people on Google+ which you are missing.
- Google+ Android App : We already posted about this and the upcoming Google+ iOS App.
- Move2Picasa : This website lets you connect to your Facebook account, after which all your Facebook photos and albums will be migrated over to Google’s Picasa service. Once moved to Picasa, they are practically on Google+ making your job to move from Facebook to Google+ much more easy.
Note : You miss your comments, captions and of course likes.
- Instaport : The best way to export all of your Instagram photos on Google+.
-Update Facebook/Twitter via Google Plus
- Find People on Google Plus :
Still New to Google Plus and need to follow relevant people? Google Plus Search should help.
The site also boasts some amazing statistics about Google Plus, am sure you would find it very interesting.
For those who still don’t have a Google+ account try your luck over invitations here.
All the How-To’s, Tips and shortcuts are well explained here.
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Thanks for all the resources. Great blog. This will help a lot of web designers.
This is an amazing Google+ tools list that people can use to analyze their social media marketing and SEO performance online and increase their ROI.
Thanks.
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