Google Buzz and your blog

Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 8:54 am

If you are a Gmail user I am sure you have seen the new Buzz link on your Gmail account. It is relatively easy to use and a great way to share information.

Will it be th next bestest thing since sliced bread? I don’t know but Google is the 800 pound gorilla in the market place and although they are late to the party when comparing them to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

I have no idea how many Gmail users there are but it is in the millions if not billions. This gives them an unprecedented advantage and they have automated a lot of it. If you talk to people regularly whether through Gmail or G chat they probably have already connected you.

As a blogger the big advantage I see is the ability to add your new content into the Buzz stream. You can add your Twitter and Facebook too. The problem is that it automatically picks up your Blogger blogs but will not pick up any of your self hosted blogs.

To get the ability to add then to your Buzz stream you will need to register the site with Google Webmaster Tools. Now this is something you should be doing anyhow because there are some statistics and warnings there that can help you get indexed better and see how well you are doing in Googles eyes.

Once you have verified your site at Google Webmaster Tools it will show in your connected sites where you can then decide to add it.

By the way feel free to follow me on Google Buzz and you can see what I am up to and even talk back to me there. Still make sure to comment below if there are enough comments I may put together a quick tutorial to help you get the most out of Buzz. It’s all up to the number of comments and retweets.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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