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Finding target communities and pages on Google Plus
3:28 with Tomer SharonLet’s identify Google Plus communities and pages your audience is likely to belong to or follow.
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Let's identify Google Plus communities and
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pages your audience is likely to belong to
or follow.
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It is very similar to what you did with
Facebook earlier.
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Google Plus is Google's social media
network.
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Well, not as big as Facebook.
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Google Plus is extremely successful among
a growing number of niche,
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domains, interests and topics.
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Many consider Google Plus as the social
network where a quality audience meets and
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exchanges ideas.
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Sounds like a place where you can find
your audience, doesn't it?
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Follow my demo on Google Plus and pause
and
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play the video to complete these steps one
by one if needed.
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Use the same keywords you identified
earlier.
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So, I'm accessing Google Plus here.
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And what I'm doing is the same thing I did
earlier.
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I am starting to type my keywords one by
one.
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Again, I'm ignoring what I'm seeing here
in the drop down menu and I hit
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the Search button and what I'm getting is
a similar thing to what I got on Facebook.
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I'm getting all results and then some
options to filter them.
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So I'm gonna go to People and Pages first.
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I wanna find pages.
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There are a couple of differences between
Google Plus and
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Facebook that you can clearly see right
here.
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People and Pages here are together so you
need to check out and
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see which one's a person and which one's a
page.
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And another difference is that the number
of followers is not stated here on
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this page.
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You need to go into the page to see that
number.
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So let's go to the first one, Dancing with
the Stars.
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Obviously a good target for me.
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How many followers?
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252,000.
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That's, that's enough for me.
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That's good enough.
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I'm going to go back,
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I'm going to copy the URL of this page and
go back and look for more pages.
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Let's see what this one is about, Dancing
astronaut.
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369 followers.
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Mm, not so sure.
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I'm looking at the posts there.
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I'm not so sure this is where my audience
will spend time.
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And it's not that big, so I'm not gonna
use that.
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And this is what you do with all of the
results of, of people and pages.
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Copy and paste ten URLs of pages to your
worksheet.
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The next thing I’m gonna do is access
communities.
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I’m gonna scan the results and see which
community is relevant for
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what I’m looking for.
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So I’m looking at three things again.
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I’m looking at the title of the community.
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The number of members and I wanna know if
I can join it immediately or
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do I need some kind of approval?
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So when it says Join, I can immediately
join the, the community and
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start posting and reading?
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But when it says, let’s see,
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Ask to join, as you see here, it means you
need an approval.
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So it might take some time so I’m gonna
skip those for now.
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So, and also, again, if,
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if I see 51 members, I'm probably not
gonna spend a lot of energy here.
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But if I see hundreds and maybe more,
thousands and
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definitely more, I'm definitely going to
copy the URL into my worksheet.
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You are done with this assignment when you
have identified ten pages and
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ten communities.
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Now let's see how to use all of that
precious information you've
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collected to recruit participants for your
research.
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