Using Google Friend Connect To Build Your Business

Google Friend Connect is a pretty cool new application from Google that allows you to add social networking features to your site.  It is a quick and easy way to add a pretty cool social tool to your sites. The technology is new, it’s hot and, in my opinion,  it’s a must have.

Look at the home page of this blog, the Small Business Marketing Guide.  See the box with friends listed?  That is where my visitors and friends are adding their google profile to my blog site.  With this application or gadget, as Google calls it, friends can connect  and communicate across sites.

Friends can join and visit each other as well as read and post comments together.  Google makes the installation pretty simple.  You do need some basic knowledge about using ftp to post code to your site but you don’t need to be a techie to make it happen.

You do need a Google account and profile to take advantage of the service.  If  you have a Google account, first be sure that you are connected with me on the Small Business Marketing Guide.

Once you have your account, go to Google Friend Connect and follow the step-by-step instructions to add it to your site or blog.  After you’re done, send me an email with your site and ask me to connect with you.