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

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GooglePlus folds, 13 alternatives

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  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? 🤔☠️

The news that Google is shutting down 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.

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The 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.😲🤔🤯

The announcement of the end of another social media site may cause dismay among bloggers who also lost the ability to promote using StumbleUpon which closed its doors recently.

 

What does the end of GooglePlus and StumbleUpon mean for you? It means you need to find new social media sites and social bookmarking sites that allow promotion.

 

This article will recommend 13 alternative social media sites. You can use these sites to promote your website content. 

 

It gets better: In contrast to GooglePlus, which had seen a decline in popularity for years before its closure, the social media sites recommended in this article are growing! Their popularity is on the rise.

 

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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How to Leverage Social Media to Make Money with Your Blog or Business, 4 Ways

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How to Make Money with social media

In our blog post, How to Make Money Blogging with a Social Media Plan, 11 Ways, guest author Nicholas Byrd and I recommended 11 ways to grow your blog or business using social media.

Nicholas and I devised an 11-step strategy for increasing your email subscribers using social media.

In today’s article, guest author Muhammad Shoaib suggests 4 different steps you can take toward growing your email list with social media. Together, you have a 15-step action plan toward growing your website with social media sites.

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Are You Wasting Your Time Promoting at Social Media Sites?

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Social media helps bloggers get blog traffic #bloggingCan you think of any bloggers who don’t use social media?

I know one, but she is certainly the exception.

The norm is for anyone who wants to spread the word about their website, products, or business to use social media. Your growth depends on it.

Social media enables you to increase your connections with people off your blog.

Social media enables you to build credibility by allowing your readers to learn more about you away from your blog.

Social media enables you to increase your traffic by letting the users of the social media sites know about your blog.

According to SuccessPromotions, using social media even improves your blog’s chances of being found on search engines. Zac Grace, an SEO strategist, agrees that using social media will help your SEO.

If you are making an income from blogging, certainly social media will allow you to generate more income as a result of the trust and awareness that using social media brings you.

However, no one has time to focus your blog promotion at all these sites. One blogger wrote, “I do my thing, and socialize where I enjoy best, not trying to dance at every wedding (every social site) because there just isn’t enough time to do everything.”

Author Debby Kaye discusses the “madness of social media” and how she feels she is drowning in that sea.

In order to get a return on your time invested, Neil Patel recommends choosing two social media sites. Other bloggers recommend choosing three. How do you know which to pick?

CoSchedule explains you need a social media strategy. This post will enable you to make those choices based on a strategy.

This article contains a three-part action plan to save you time and enable you to get a greater return on your time invested at the sites you are currently using.

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This Will Make You Get More Blog Traffic at These Social Media Sites

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Get Blog Traffic at Social Media SitesIf you had to name one aspect of blogging that you consider the best, what would it be?

Many bloggers would name community.

Consider this comment from a reader:

Blogging is cool… you comment and someone is usually nice and friendly…alas energy spin has me fighting logic thinking where’s the catch? But…there isn’t one… people here are cool… I’ve met some neat people…. very, very neat people ?

He is right.

My posts have consistently insisted networking is the way to grow blog traffic.

However, if you are looking to network for the purpose of growing blog traffic, there are some social media sites that are preferential to others.

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