How to improve the blog traffic from Google+ Communities

Google Community is just like a group in Facebook. In Facebook group, anything shared can be viewed by all its members. Members are assumed to be people of same interest or objective. To access information shared in a particular group or share anything in a group, one has to first join as its member. 

 

       
This is the case with Google Community. There are many communities in Google that can be viewed from your Google+ profile dashboard. You can join in any of them. If no community matches your interest or objective, you can always create one and invite your friends as members – just like you can create a group in Facebook. 

How to view existing Google Communities
There are thousands of Google communities – starting from vegetarians to celebrity communities. Some communities have millions of members. So you can join any of them and start viewing the posts members have shared or start sharing one of yours. 

To view all communities, it’s damn easy. If you have opened your Google+ profile, just to the left of your profile details, click on the drop down bottom and then click on COMMUNITIES. 

All the communities will be shown on your Google+ user dashboard. If you want only the communities that are being recommended for you, click on recommended community.

How to create new Google Community
I have already told that you can create a new community if none of communities has objectives that are into areas of your interest. Once it’s being created, you can invite your friends to be its members. When more and more people join as its members, it will grow into a bigger community and level of your interaction with members and also among members themselves will increase.  

I have also created a community that goes by the name To Learn Blogging to share scratches of blogging for people who are new into blogging world. It has now more than 20 members. I am inviting more and more people as its members. Some are joining themselves.  

To create a Google community, the steps are given below:

1. Open your Google+ Profile 
2. Click on drop down button (just below Google+)
3. Click on Communities
4. Click on Create Community (on the top right hand side of Google+ profile dashboard)
5. Select the kind of community (Public or private. Better select public)
6. Give the name of the community
7. On do people need permission to join? Select No, anyone can join
8. Click on create community

And you’re done creating a community. You can add members, send invitations and also do some privacy settings as per your requirements. Since you’ll remain as its owner, whenever new member join it or post articles, you’ll receive notifications. 

How to generate traffic from Google Community?
This is the charm of joining different Google communities for bloggers. Or you may say for creating one that isn’t existent before.

Google communities can be leveraged to generate more blog traffic. Since each community is a group of people with same interest or objective, you just have to know what to share and what not to share. You must read the taglines of a community before sharing any article or post. In tagline, community owner usually gives aims and objectives of the community. 

Things to remember while joining Google+ communities:

1. Join communities that have objective related to your blogging area. If your blog is all about web designing, you shouldn’t join a community of fashion lovers. It won’t make sense. 
2. Join related communities with large number of members. The possibility of people from the community visiting your shared links will be higher only if that community has large number of members. 
3. You can like or comment wherever necessary. This will make members feel your presence and often get new visitors or followers to your blog.

I have also joined as member to three communities. They are Blogspot, Blogging and of course my own community To Learn Blogging. They are related to areas where I run my blog. I also learn many new things in there as much as I get visitors and likes for my blog.

How to share a post in community
Sharing of your post in a community is easy. It’s just like how we share posts or articles in our Facebook walls or groups. Just follow the given steps:

1. Open your blog 
2. Click on title of the post you want to share
3. Open a community in which you want to share the post
4. Copy the URL of your post to be shared
5. On share what’s new of that community dashboard, paste the post URL.
6. Select the category for your shared post
7. And click on Share button.

Benefits of Google community membership
I have said so much on how to join Google communities and also how to create one if none interest you. Why? Ok. Let me tell you the benefits of joining Google communities:

1. You can discover new blogs in your niche. 
2. You can make new friends
3. You can speak out your interest
4. You can build brand around your passion 
5. You can share your blog posts
6. You can receive new readers, followers and commenters 
7. You improve your blog traffic.

Therefore, why are you waiting? Join as member to few Google communities, do what I have told you to do and then see the change in your blog traffic graph. I am sure you’ll be surprised. 

My blog traffic has improved its traffic and today receives at least 600 hits a day compare to only less than 100 few months before – when I didn’t join any of Google communities. What's the main source of traffic for your blog? Share with us in comment.