{"id":881,"date":"2014-05-19T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:25:55","slug":"how-to-increase-your-google-plus-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/how-to-increase-your-google-plus-views.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Your Google Plus Views Like A Boss!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Plus is finally starting to prove to us that it isn\u2019t quite the ghost-town we all assumed it would be<\/a>. Integrating G+ comments into YouTube was a bold move, one that was not particularly favoured by many. However it was a move that helped introduce the networking platform to a large chunk of the internet that they may never have been able to leverage previously.<\/p>\n

Coupled with the addition of \u201cviews\u201d<\/a> to profiles and business pages just a few months later, it\u2019s now right there in front of us in black and white. Google Plus has a massive amount of daily users.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not just the industry experts like Matt Cutts and Rand Fishkin that are getting all the views either. Celebrity profiles such as Mark Wahlberg, Hugh Jackman and Russell Brand all boast millions upon millions of views. But while Matt and the rest of those guys rack up massive view counts, the rest of us are displaying rather flaccid figures in comparison.<\/p>\n

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But did you know that it\u2019s actually not that hard to naturally inflate your own view count, whilst gaining a few relevant followers? Read on to discover how I earnt over half a million views<\/strong> to both my G+ page and my G+ profile in less than a year by simply sharing one post a day<\/strong> – and nothing more.<\/p>\n

Understanding Google Plus Views<\/h2>\n

I was really confused when Google switched +1 count to view count and my G+ profile showed just under half a million views! Don’t get me wrong, it was fantastic to see such a high number, but I was just confused as to how my profile had garnered so many views when I’d only created it as an afterthought to establish Google authorship for my motoring blog<\/a>. I rarely share anything here, so what’s so special about this profile?<\/p>\n

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Next I checked the Google Plus page for my blog and the results were similar, if not a little more staggering. I share content frequently via this page so was naturally expecting a larger view count than on my profile.<\/p>\n

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Upon further investigation I began to realise that the view count displayed is really an aggregate of views to my page and my posts and my photo counts.<\/p>\n

I’m now going to let you into a little secret…The secret that helped me understand how to replicate this – They aren’t all technically “views” either, a large chunk of them are\u00a0impressions<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

For the last year I had been following a simple formula which had been naturally increasing my (then hidden) view count by a massive amount.<\/p>\n

Increasing Your Google Plus Views<\/h2>\n

To significantly increase your Google Plus view count you must be doing two things:\u00a0Sharing images and using communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n