Records have once again proved Google+ to be the fastest growing social networking website with advanced features. Many experts are tracking the growth of Google+ very closely and one among them is Paul Allen. He predicted the Google+ growth rates very accurately in the past. Now, he claims that Google+ has 90 million users and 625000 new users are signing up every day.
He supports his theory for the hike in Google+ users due to holidays where users could have sent greetings to their friends through Social Networks, Automatic signups to Google+ via Android 4 mobile phones, commercial ads in TV, celebrity appeal or even word of mouth advertising. Moreover, he advocates that Google+ has more number of new user signups and it has increased in the past weeks. Allen is the founder of ancestry.com, which is all about genealogy & tracking family history records, he follows a strange approach to derive his estimates about Google+. Since July, he has been tracking thousands of queries on the surnames in Google+ and finally extrapolated the network size.
He reports that Google+ will reach 300 million users exactly on Dec 2012, 200 million users by Aug 2012 and 100 million users by Feb 2012. But his prediction fails to count the number of active users among the 62 million users and it is seen as a negative aspect. As per the Experian hitwise, those active users are just a fraction of Google+’s base. The most recent week tracking of hitwise found that Google+ has reached a total visitor count to 9.4 million by the ending week of dec17th and it is a nice improvement in the Google+’s total visit compared to the weeks in November which was 7.2 million.
Key strategies set by Google to keep up its market
Filed under G+ Tips & Tricks by Jasa Lance on April 2, 2012 at 6:54 pm {no comments}Google has started its strategy to overcome the competitors in the social media sites. They have apparently planned to launch their own third-party net commenting platform in helping users to provide their response on various sites. Meanwhile, Google has also started promoting its application store via Google Play and links it with Google Plus. Considering this move by Google, it seems like they have not shown more interest in ad searches and searching files through the net.
Recently, a meeting was held at G-Saudi Arabia to discuss about developing Google’s social site. One such thing is to provide a new commenting platform for the Google user. Earlier, the platform will link with other Google’s online services, where users browsing anywhere can be linked to Google Plus network. They have also integrated the Android device market along with Google Play, to expose various Google’s web products available on market to its users.
Another new thing considered by Google is posting URL in Google Plus. People were not allowed to post comments and share images along with URL using Google Plus in the past, this was a mistake that Google did previously. Facebook, exploded with the help of ‘likes’ on various websites that helped to increase the number of people using Facebook as a third-party commenting platform. This provides two benefits for user – he or she doesn’t have to create a separate new profile on every site they visit and those people who are commenting can be easily identified resulting in responsible posts. Thus, Google sensitively started building social network-centric services that will improve the flow of heavy traffic from user resulting in new business opportunities.