Image via CrunchBaseOver the weekend Google fully upgraded and updated the previously termed "followers" widget on the blogspot.com domain into Google Friend Connect. Many of the services and accounts are being integrated and tied together in ways you can't even imagine...but the path is becoming clearer by the day.
Check it out live on Blogger.com
Mid September of last year I saw a couple posts about this and wrote about it being live. But it was being called the followers widget and didn't have all the functionality of the full featured friend connect.
In typical Googley fashion they rolled out this cool feature over the weekend and under the radar with no fanfare.
Last I checked there were over 10 million blogs on the Blogger domain and I'd say the 80/20 rule applies so let's say 2 million of those are active blogs. This means a whole new world of opportunity has just opened for you to connect with them. And them to connect with you!
The GFC widget makes this dead simple easy and hugely powerful.
One of the things no one is talking about right now is the fact that when it all ties together (fingers crossed) when you choose to join someone's blog community through friend connect it will automatically subscribe you to their rss feed directly into your Google reader account.
What isn't talked about is the links inside of Reader are hard coded HTML links which are fully followed. Also, the more you engage your readers and they like your stuff big G will see your blog as increasingly valuable and rank you higher.
In case you've been in the dark the search algorithm does look at user data. It's what their entire business was built upon.
I've been reading this book "What Would Google Do?" and he talks about how they only make decisions based on user data. Anytime a change to one of their services is proposed the boss asks "How much user data is your theory based on?".
If it's too little they don't move forward. So knowing this you can bet they're building into their algorithm the ability to see how users are interacting with your content and your website.
Bottom line, if you have 10,000 RSS subscribers and only 10 of them regularly read your blog posts you're in trouble. Your competitor who has 1,000 RSS subscribers and 373 of them who actually read all his stuff is going to be ranked higher than you. Because with big G it's all about the user experience.
So keep this in mind. Gmail is the glue which holds everything together and how your friends lists will be managed. You can now video chat and post videos directly into Gchat. My buddy did this the other day and I was able to play the YouTube video (though a miniaturized screen version) right in my window. Very cool.
Also, I haven't even discussed the ability to share items within your rss reader account which creates even more backlinks and readers. Make sure you send it to friends who are interested in the story's topic. Again it's all about user data, them actually clicking on the link and taking a few minutes to read the story.
The Googlebot can track users behavior inside reader so they know how much time a reader spends looking at your story and whether or not they click through for more info to your website.
Exciting things happening with GFC so keep up and start using it because it's the wave of the future...the new platform which will dominate in 2-3 years.
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