I have to admit, I was wrong – or at least Facebook kind of proved me to be wrong when I was saying that Facebook Hates the Small Business Fan Pages! Recently I could create as many pages as I wanted AND update them as many times as I wanted – with no facebook check / code to enter in! Wow, it’s almost as if “facebook heard me and gave me a free pass“! A few days after I wrote the previous article I had no more Facebook Security Checks 
I start to love the Facebook pages now…
But guess what – the Google+ Pages is out! This may be part of the reason why Facebook wants more and more people to use their Facebook Pages: create pages, update them, comment on them, like them, link them to one another, re-share them, etc. There may be a threat to the Facebook Pages – though the google pages don’t offer a “vanity link” (where the name of the page is in the link, super-SEO stuff), yet it is GOOGLE+ PAGES! Whatever google does is very well positioned in the search results, and now that google is into social media and social networking… watch out, Facebook!
Google puts out Google+ Pages for businesses!
First of all this is not news anymore. This was news when it happened, but now… it’s yesterday’s headlines. Now if you’re a brand or you want to create a brand, a page for the local business (which is on google maps / google places), it’s free – all you need is a google account! They allow you to edit all the fields of the page, like: the name of the page, the 5 pictures at the top of the page, your favourite links, your introduction, more specific stuff about your business / schedule hours, phone no and contact details, the profile picture, etc. I’m still experimenting with it, but here’s some more articles / tips / things I wish they would implement:
- MORE pictures – with the famous picassa scrolling left-right – at the top of the google page! Facebook allows you to do that…
- I wish they would allow YOU as a page to add people to your circle, instead of allowing only google+ users to do that;
- vanity links – why not allow both on the profile, the google+, and the google pages, to have your own dedicated link? Facebook does…
- Google+ Pages: connect with all the things you care about – via their official blog;
- Google+ Badges Make it Simple for Users to Connect With Brands, via Mashable;
- 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages, via Mashable;
- Google’s Brad Horowitz Explains Google+ Pages, at business insider;
- Google Launches Google+ Pages for Businesses, announces PC World;
- Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More, via Search Engine Land.
