Blogger Changes after Google Plus Shutdown

Blogger Changes after Google Plus Shutdown - Google has recently announced the shutdown of  Google plus due to low usage from consumers. Although the number of social media users has increased from 2010, Google plus has under performed when compared to its competitors like Twitter and Facebook.

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Following this announcement, the social media network will officially close down on April 2nd, 2019. Since Google plus and Blogger have some common features, a number of changes have been made to Blogger’s Google plus  integration as of 4 February 2019.

Blogger Changes after Google Plus Shutdown

A number of widgets have been removed from layout selection and cannot be used in the blogger blog:

• +1 Button
• Google plus  Followers
• Google plus  Badge

Support for these widgets in Layout is no longer available. However, you can add these to your blog through 3rd party code but they will also stop working after April 2nd, 2019.

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Custom Blogger Templates

If you are using a custom blogger template that includes Google plus features, you need to update your template manually or you can contact your template provider to make the appropriate changes.

Google Plus Comments

Support for Google plus comments has been turned off, and all blogs using Google plus comments have been reverted back to using Blogger comments as default commenting sign-ins. Also comments posted as Google plus comments have not been migrated to Blogger and can't in any way appear on your blog.

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Adding Google +1 Button to Websites and Blogs

How about adding Google +1 button to websites and blogs? The Google +1 button has recently been added by Google for its users to recommend a certain blog post, blog, website, webpage or article the user's friends, family and all the other users that are connected to that user through social media like Yahoo, Twitter, etc.

The +1 button is a shortened form of the phrase "This seemed pretty cool to me" or "You should see this, because I found it useful."

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Adding Google +1 Button to Websites and Blogs

Clicking the Google +1 button for a particular webpage will publicly give that webpage the user's stamp of approval, that you prefer this search result which may either be a webpage, blog, blog post, website, etc. Your +1's can help friends, contacts, and others on the web to find the best search results when they search for a term related to that to which you have clicked the Google +1 button.
To get the Google +1 button, visit:

Developers.Google.com/+/web/+1button

This will lead you to Google Webmaster tools Google +1 Button Configuration page. Choose the appropriate size of the Google +1 button, as you desire, and simply copy the code given below and paste it in to your website/blog's source HTML.

On the other hand, you can place the following code in the body section of your website/blog's HTML or any other place where you want to put the Google +1 button.

<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render --><g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
<!-- Place this tag after the last plusone tag --><script type="text/javascript">  (function() {    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;    po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);  })();</script>

This is the code of the tall (60 pixel) Google +1 Button, which is my personal favourite. Placing it just above the post title tag will give it a better click opportunity rate, incase of blogger users.

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Google Plus introduces Online Games for its users

Google Plus introduces Online Games for its users - The Google Team started adding games to Google Plus today. Angry Birds and Zynga join hands with Google+ as their first game partners. The Google Plus team said in their blog, "This enhances their view of bringing the nuance and richness of real-life sharing in a Google Plus account via the web."

Google Plus introduces Online Games for its users

They, actually, wanted to add games that were really close to reality and the real-world. That meant giving a Google Plus user all the control over his games, including how they played the game and how they shared their experience with their Google Plus friends.

As they said, "Google Plus games are there when you want them and gone when you don't want them."



Click "Games" at the top of your stream to start playing games. You can see the latest game updates, browse the invites and check out games that people you know have played lately. The Games page is also where your game accomplishments will appear. There you can comfortably share your latest high scores.

If you’re not interested in games, just ignore them. Your stream will automatically focus on people you are conversing with.

Today the Google+ team started to gradually roll out games in Google+. They are looking forward to making them fully available to everyone in Google+ soon.

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