HootSuite Extends Google+ Pages to All Users
HootSuite is pleased to announce that Google+ Pages is now available to nearly 5 million users worldwide!
Whether you’re on a Free, a Pro or an Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to efficiently manage Google+ Pages alongside other social channels, providing brands a better way to capitalize on the social power of this rapidly expanding social network.
To add Google+ Pages: Access your Profile from the side menu, then select + Add a Social Network under My Social Networks.
Social media teams can now fully utilize the advanced capabilities of HootSuite’s engagement, measurement, collaboration and security tool-set to manage the unique brand-focused environment of Google+ Pages for:
- Targeted Publishing with Circles
- Advanced Circle Management
Google+ Pages – We’re Listening to You!
HootSuite launched as an official partner in Fall 2011 for Enterprise clients, and since then, Google+ Pages in the dashboard is HootSuite’s most requested social network:
- It has been our most requested feature
- Over 12,000 requests on our official Google+ Pages request form
- Over 8,000 requests on the feedback forum
- HootSuite’s Ambassador of Happiness, Chris Trottier, personally manages between 20-30 @HootSuite_Help requests for Google+ Pages daily!
According to Compete.com, Google+ grew 43% in June, reaching 31.9m unique visitors in the US. This Google+ post states that:
“Since the year started, Google+ has gained 14.2 million visitors, from 17.6 million visitors in December to 31.9 million visitors in June. For the first time, according to Compete statistics, Google+ is now larger than Linkedin, who had 24.6 million visitors in June.”
Google+ Pages For Brand Engagement
Google+ launched new Google+ Pages for brands to have a unique and nuanced engagement experience with audiences.
With Google+ Pages integration, marketing managers and socially strategic organizations are offered new ways of managing connections with customers within the HootSuite dashboard for lead generation, HR recruiting, support, brand awareness and social campaigns.
Targeted Publishing with Circles
Google+ Pages in the HootSuite dashboard allow brands to tailor messaging to specific audience segments and post updates to selected circles. HootSuite privacy features let Team Members select whether a post will appear public, or whether it will post to a specific circle.
Advanced Circle Management
Brands can now collaboratively build out their Google+ Page presence using HootSuite’s advanced team workflow functionality – such as message assignments and follow ups – optimizing the unique engagement benefits of Google+ circles.
The functionality also allows for custom searches of keywords or phrases within public posts and specific content streams for easy monitoring. By simplifying the monitoring of comments and posts from audience members, teams can streamline +Pages management easily through the HootSuite dashboard.
Watch & Learn with HootSuite University
Google+ Pages are for anyone who wants build lasting relationships with customers, and are the centrepiece for brands, businesses and celebrities who want to build a presence on Google+. Take a look at the walkthrough video from HootSuite University to learn more.
All HootSuite users now have access to Google+ Pages functionality in the HootSuite dashboard. HootSuite will continue to expand the dashboard’s functionality as a robust and comprehensive tool for social savvy businesses.
To add Google+ Pages: Access your Profile from the side menu, then select + Add a Social Network under My Social Networks
I’m being told that I don’t have a Google+ when I do.
I also have issues adding Google+ . Either I get stuck in a never-ending “loading” scenario, or I am told that I do not have a Google+ profile.
It would be great if I could specify which profile I’d like to connect to, as well. A simple email address/pw to connect to that profile would be awesome.
Same problem here.
This is great. Thanks for adding it.
A problem I am having is that I cannot select all of my accounts in the drop down box on the Hootlet (Safari for Mac). I can see the first 11 social networks, but nothing after it. And since the G+ accounts are last, I can’t get to all of them.
Seems like maybe it has to do with the screen real estate in the hootlet. Just a guess.
You guys are legends! It was the one missing feature that got me started looking for an alternative… you just spread out the glue and now I am stuck with you (I prefer it that way).
I see that we can now work with G+ PAGES… sorry for this if it is obvious, but can we use hootsuite to send posts to my Personal Profile as well?
Next Q: Can I use Hootsuite to send posts to G+ Pages that I ‘Manage’ but don’t own?
Hootsuite is rocking!!!!! Your tool is the best on web. You’ve defeated every single tool in the market by posting the last 2 updates. Keep it up your good work.
So is Google+ on Hootsuite only for brand pages and not personal pages? That sucks. I want to manage my G+ page from Hootsuite and the only reason I didn’t delete was because I was holding out for Hootsuite to integrate it.
Speak the truth. Also when will the iPad app update be available. Hootsuite
This is exactly what I’m waiting for as well.
Same here. Why cant I post to my personal google Plus page just like I can with my personal facebook and twitter account ?!?!? C’mon Hootsuite lets get this done!!!
Hello, I would like to know if is it possible to add google+ pages and other social tools like instagram, flickr,… in your ipad app
thank you
Hi Luis,
Thanks for stopping by. The iPad app currently doesn’t support App Directory tools.
Thank you Andy, it will be possible in the future, I suppose. When will it be possible?
Hi Luis,
No definite timeline quite yet.
I expect this also holds true for the iPhone at this point. Is that correct Andy?
Hi JR,
That’s correct. It’s on the road map though.
How about posting to user Google+ profiles?
Interesting, pages but not ones actual Google+ account? Why not? Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to be able to access my pages on Hootsuite but one would think if I can see my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn streams on here why not Google+ if Google+ Pages are available.
Thanks for the pages though.
Hi this is great news – should the organisation owner add the G+ page in the first instance before sharing with the team (several of my colleagues have access to same g+ page but we are in overlapping orgs and teams on hoootsuite). Or does G+ admin not have to fit into Orgs and Teams, just follows who is a page admin on G+?
Hi guys, great news about Google+! Is this ready for free accounts now? When I try to set it up it brings up a popup saying I need to upgrade..
Hi Becky,
It should be ready to go! Contact the Help Desk if you’re still having issues.
Any idea if this works with Google’s 2-Step Verification?
Lynette, I have 2-step enabled, and it did not seem to make an ounce of difference. It connects as smoothly as Twitter OAuth does and just works. I’ve posted with it.
THANKS!
Question: When will people be able to manage personal profiles?
This is welcome news, thank you so much!!!
I tried to add my company’s G+ to the dashboard, but it says I don’t have a G+ account. The email that I use to log in to Hootsuite is NOT the email address that was created to manage my brand’s G+ account. How is this resolved? Thanks!
How much of a wait are we anticipating before we can publish to Profiles rather than just pages?
Hi Kimberly,
There’s no definite timeline but we’re certainly thinking about it.
My profile reaches 13,000 people. My page reaches 1,000. I’m sure you can appreciate why I find this a “must have”.
Looking forward to this option too.
Andy,
Glad to hear it may be in the pipeline.
Congrats on the rollout…just shared the news with some G+ circles and people are excited.
Please make certain that you certainly think about it, because certainly most of the requests you got about G+ integration were referring to G+ personal pages.
I’m gonna buy a subscription instantly as soon as this works – and gonna tell everybody i know to do the same – so – as you already got this far, don’t miss the last step to finish what you started: social networking is broken right now – fix it – you’ll make millions of people happy and get rich on the way.
Ready. Set. Code!
Thanks for the replies Andy, some professionals and entrepreneurs find it easier to brand themselves rather then a product or a service. for me G+ integration is the only thing missing out from a perfect social hub.
Thanks to jonobo, I just saw we could upgrade with a subscription. I would love to settle with an online solutions that meets our needs.
Regards
Any ETA on publishing to Google+ profile?
Hi Kevin,
We’re just as eager as our user base to get it in the dashboard. No timeline quite yet.
Crongatulations! Excelente work. Only a question…Google+ too work in my iphone app?
The circles function doesn’t seem to be working. I am able to schedule to Google + Page but privacy and sharing with circles is not there. Am I missing something? I’m about to do a blog post on this so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Tracy,
Contact our Help Desk for help with this.
I have tried to connect my HootSuite account with Google + and it tells me I don’t have any pages.
So to be clear, if I do not use or have Google+ pages, I STILL cannot not use Google + with Hootsuite???
So again, what’s the point???
Hi Emily,
Our Google+ integration is currently only for Google+ Pages. Personal pages are on the roadmap.
Are Google+ personal pages still on the roadmap? The process of figuring this out was not clear at all, btw. Really need personal page integration. Perhaps I should create a Plus Page called HootSuite doesn’t work with Google Plus and post to it.
Have you found an answer to this? I’ve been searching and can’t seem to find any information. . . .weird considering it’s been almost a year since it was “on the roadmap”.
Any advice? I’d much rather use the personal page with HootSuite but can’t :-(
This is awesome. Definitely looking forward to using it!
FINALLY!!!!!! Thank you! I have Google+ Pages for my business and manage Pages for clients. They installed into my Hootsuite flawlessly!
Do you plan to integrate with Google + personal pages at some point? I am wondering why that was left out. Please explain.
Estamos analizando y aprendiendo
Any idea why I’m not seeing the option to select which circles I’d like to post to?
I’ve authorised my G+ account, added my page and can post to it (and see my news feed), but there’s no option to select which circles I’m posting to?
What about Google+ for personal accounts?
I’m happy to see this. I hope I can start filling our profile with some relevant information.
But, when do you expect this functionality will be added to the Android app? Ball park estimate if there’s no official timeline. :)
Hi Andrew,
I can’t share a timeline but it is in the works.
I just set up my Google+ stream and it imported my pages, but it did not import my personal page. Now, when I try to do it again, it just pulls in my business pages and not my personal.
Am I doing something wrong or is the program just set up for pages and not personal profiles.
Thoughts?
Hi Chris,
Happy to see you give it a try. The Google+ Pages integration does not cover personal profiles.
Hi Andy,
Are there plans to include Personal Pages? Some of us have a personal brand to manage in addition to Pages, and it would be great to do that from Hootsuite. Kind of surprised its not there with Pages on the launch to be honest.
It would be helpful if you said whether you intend to do so or not. It seems this is a serious omission – hopefully just temporary?
Any reason why you’re not allowing access to personal profiles?
Hi Paul,
It’s not up to us at this point. Adding Personal Profiles is certainly on the roadmap.
This is awesome news! I will actually start regularly updating all my Google+ pages now. Thank you Hootsuite for making my work a little bit easier!
Seems strange to add Pages before profiles or is the assumption that most people who use HootSuite use it for business? Since it seems most companies like the idea of having someone with a personal profile represent the company I didn’t think Google+ Pages were getting a lot of use. I have both but rarely keep up with my Google+ business page.
I do not see the option to select circles when posting from hootsuite to google+
Hi Jason,
That doesn’t seem right. Contact our Help Desk for assistance with this.
Testing it now to see how it will work for me and my team. Great addition to the lineup of website that are part of the Hootsuite family. THUMBS UP!
I want to see Google Plus pages for Android app too
This is spectacular news, but I couldn’t add my personal feed – ONLY pages.
On another note, for Facebook, could you possibly add the home stream feed for pages. That way I could see the other pages my page follows. Then I could use Hootsuite all of the time!!!!!
Excellent add to Hootsuite!
I have a question though – I published an update to G+ through Hootsuite on my G+ page Publicly, and through Hootsuite dashboard it seems as it is published, but when I go to my G+ page profile, I can’t see the message?
What could be the issue? The message is published as Public to Anyone on the web…
Hi Romana,
That doesn’t seem right. Reach out to us at the Help Desk for assistance with this.
Hi, thanks a lot for this Google+ feature. Any idea when it will be avalaible in the iphone app? Thanks.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for including page management. I would also like to manage my personal profile from Hootsuite…:-)
Mountain Jim
Another vote for personal profile integration. Andy Au – any idea when Google+ will be visible in the iPad app? I do 95% of my HootSuiting there.
I have problems with Google+ Page, when I put RSS/Atom feeds of my web to automatic publish on my Google+ Page no appear the image of the link (image of the post) but with facebook is perfect, Bye
This is great news; however, it would be more awesome to have it available for the profile as well. I would hate to create a Google+ page when I can use my profile instead. It’s a hassle to have another page to maintain.
Thanks for the update.
Hi Andy
I use rss feed to auto post to google plus , but it only post the title , no text no picture , is there is anyway to work around this?
Hi Al,
Not at this time. If you do find a way, be sure to let us know :)
Thanks for the update, Andy.
I think allowing personal Google Plus account updates would be a natural extension of what you’ve started here.
Andy – I have just created a google+ account, created a page then tried to add it to hootsuite, I’ve been unable to get Hootsuite to connect, after telling me I don’t yet have a G+ account, it see’s my G+ page, but when I select it and try to add it (With and without the ‘automatically create new tab’ tick box ticked or unticked, I get a message saying ‘You have not made any changes, are you sure you want to close?’
I’ve upgraded to Pro to see if that makes any difference but I just can’t get it to synch the G+ page to a hootsuite tab. I’ve tried to see hootsuite is an account I can add in my google+ account settings, but it’s not listed.
Any advice warmly received. Thanks.
Andy – ignore my last – I’ve sorted it out.
Going Pro worked. It was then operator error. I hadn’t ticked the account.
Thanks.
so no Google plus for the Android App? You could remove 4 Square and use Google Plus
Is there a development timeline we can follow? I am also interested in timing of Android integation
Any news on the google+ possibility on iphone?
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