Google’s +1 Button Now Works With Google +, Go Figure!

Google has announced that the Google +1 button now works with Google’s social network, Google +. +1 Button Sharing on Google + Now when you click a +1 button on a publisher web site, such as this one, you will be able to share that article directly with your Google + circles. All you do […]

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Google Plus Button SocialGoogle has announced that the Google +1 button now works with Google’s social network, Google +.

+1 Button Sharing on Google +

Now when you click a +1 button on a publisher web site, such as this one, you will be able to share that article directly with your Google + circles. All you do is click the +1 button, then in the text box area you comment, choose a circle and then click on the share button.

Here is a picture of me sharing a story on this site:

Google Plus Button Sharing

Then if I go to my Google + profile you will see what I shared:

Google Plus Button In Plus

This is being rolled out now and should be available to everyone within days.

Google + Snippets

Google also added + Snippets as part of their rich snippets markup. This allows publishers to define what is shared by the Google + user, such as the image, URL, description and so on.

Here is some sample code on how it works:

<body itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article">
<h1 itemprop="name">This is the article name</h1>
<img itemprop="image" src="thumbnail.jpg" />
<p itemprop="description">This is the description of the article.</p>
</body>

Here is a video on these additions:

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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