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Google+ Closes: 13 More Social Media Sites to Make You Happy

October 14, 2018 by Janice Wald 20 Comments

When I first started blogging almost 4 years ago, I enjoyed using GooglePlus.

I enjoyed the feeling of community the GooglePlus groups gave me.

I met new friends from all walks of life tied by a common thread– a love of blogging.

I promoted my posts on GooglePlus which has the potential to boost blog traffic.

My friends often promoted my posts and expert interviews in which I took part there. Their support further cemented our friendships.

Additionally, I was able to promote in GooglePlus groups which had the potential to attract targeted traffic. GooglePlus had all sorts of groups. I recall groups about technology, politics, and WordPress just to name three.

I say “recall” since I hadn’t been to GooglePlus in an extremely long time.

Apparently, neither had many people since the site announced its impending closure on October 8.

GooglePlus announced the site will close its doors come August of 2019.

Another reason actually precipitated the site’s imminent closure: a data breach involving 500,000 people.

Reactions on Twitter to the news of GooglePlus folding varied:

Google has apparently announced they are shutting down #GooglePlus leading thousands to ask the important question “Google+ was still around?”

And the main lesson for those end-users, like me, who invested thousands of hours helping to build services like Google+ and Google Reader? Never invest deeply in a platform that isn’t the primary focus of the company behind it.

So GooglePlus is dead now? #RIP #GooglePlus

The news that Google is shutting down #GooglePlus is met with immense joy and sighs of relief from Social Media Professionals all across the industry who were only publishing on or monitoring the dead platform because it was a checkbox on an executive’s social strategy.

#GooglePlus ? More like #GoogleMinus

The #GooglePlus data breach is not really a huge deal. No one uses the platform.

Google Is Shutting Down Google+ After Exposing Data Of Up To 500,000 Users. SHOCKING. Never Knew Google Plus Had 500,000 Users. #GooglePlus

At the end of this article, you will be able to promote your posts to 13 free social media sites and social bookmarking sites.

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50 Experts Share Their Best Free Social Media Apps

June 3, 2018 by Janice Wald 33 Comments

You know you need social media sites to promote your blog posts.

You don’t have the time to promote at all of them.

By using social media apps, you can promote on your phones.

You can get the promotion done and save time by promoting on your mobile phones instead of having to find a computer.

By using the best social media apps, you can save time and effectively promote your content. By using the apps on your phones, you’ll be able to promote to more places than you could on a desktop computer since you can promote “on the go.”

However, as time goes on, smartphone apps keep changing.

Which are the best social media apps in 2018?

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