Merry Christmas to all the blog followers. I've taken the day off today, but worked on a painting of Gold Harbour yesterday. It's looking suitably stark, but I'm mulling over the possibilities of adding a bit more foreground interest, and will publish a photo soon.
On the subject of blog publishing, I am totally confused regarding "google+" and suspect I'm missing out on a wider audience. Any tips appreciated, or spreading the circle wider!
This is my understanding of it all so far:
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is based around the idea of circles. These are groups of people you want to share things with. You can have as many circles as you like with different people in each one. So you could start with one for family; one for friends; maybe one for regular contacts and one for anyone else you have contact with.
You post articles just as you do with a blog, but you can choose who you share them with. You can make them 'Public' for everyone to see, or you could just share them with your 'Friends' circle for instance. If you restrict who sees a post you will see 'Limited' at the top.
Anything you share with a circle will be seen by everyone in that circle in their Google+ 'Home' tab (you can choose to have an email sent to anyone not on Google+). Similarly, you will see anything that anyone in your circles publishes. If you don't want to see someone's posts you can block them, but I'm not sure how that is different from removing them from your circles altogether.
When you click on the G+ button on a website you are publicly recommending it, which I think means that you are boosting its ranking in search results. The G+share button allows you to share a website or article with people in your circles.
There are a few Artists circles on Google+ which you could join. You could then post articles or link to your blog posts and they would see them. If you are interested I can probably send you a link to them, or you could do your own search for 'Artists circles'. You will then find that you will get people asking to be added to your circles.
Hope that helps to make some sense of it. If you need to know anything else, I'll be happy to help if I can.