How to Connect Blogspot Blog to Google Plus 2018

How to Connect Blogspot Blog to Google Plus

How to Connect Blogspot Blog to Google Plus

The wait is over as Google announce that Google plus commenting system can now connect with your Blogspot Blog to drive more traffic from Google plus business page to your blogger blog. So now if like me you want to drive more traffic from Google Plus to your blog. Then here is a guide how you can configure and connect you Google plus account with your blogger and enable Google plus commenting system on your blog.

This new experience is now just two steps away. You just want to interlink your blog with Google plus and enable Google plus comments



Warning

Read this before integrating for Google plus commenting system. There are few things you have to know.

1. If you are planning to change the URL of your blog then do this before jumping to Google plus commenting system. As they all will disappear if you change the URL afterward.
    
2. You will also lose all your comments if you are using any third party commenting system.
    
3. If you are using blogger original commenting system then you have no problem when you change to Google plus commenting system.
4. The reader has to create a Google plus profile if he wants to comment. So If any reader is not using google plus then it’s difficult for him to comment.
    
5. Adult blogs can’t use this option.
    
6. If you are using custom template then this link can give you a code to add google plus comment system box. https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/3007761?hl=en

Login to your Blogspot blog and go to dashboard. Select the blog in which you want to setup Google plus commenting system. This thing is also same as claiming authorship for your Blogspot blog. This way now you can share your post to you business page and profile on Google plus directly.

Oh coming back to the main thing as I left you in dashboard now clicks Google + icon of the left sidebar. It asks you a permission to get started. Allow it by clicking on gets started.

Copy your profile information from blogger profile as you want it to do it manually. Now paste this profile information in you Google + profile. This has to be done manually as these both ID’s don’t sink unless you do this.

Now you need to give it another permission to link your Blogspot with your Google plus profile by just clicking on the switch now. Now on next page you can click on the box to add the blog in your profile. This should be done in order to take benefits of Google authorship.

Before enabling comments feature of Google plus on your blog read some benefits to gain more traffic for your blogger.

I personally think that this move is giving both parties a very good favor. The first benefit for a blogger is they can easily gain more social signal and easy social media interaction now. The social signal will not only help you to gain more traffic, but it is also a very good SEO practice.


Now the first favor for Google plus is that bloggers spend the most time on Google + now. Second thing is that if visitor got a Google plus account then there is no need to create any account to comment otherwise the second benefit also goes to Google plus as people will create more Google plus account only to comment on their favorite blog post. The third benefit is for bloggers as they can gain more comments.

Now to activate your commenting system you can go to Google plus link again in your Blogspot dashboard and select the button saying “use Google+ comment system on your blog”