Create a Google+ Brand Page in 5 Quick Steps!

November 7, 2011 - Last Modified: November 7, 2011 by Hesham Zebida 4,468

Google announced the new Google+ Brand Pages today. I’ve just created a new brand page for Famous Bloggers on Google+ and thought to take you thought the process, however there is no fancy design or big tricks, this is a totally straight forward process that you will actually enjoy!

So, let’s get into businesses right a way!

1- Create Google+ Brand Page

The first thing you need to do it go to the create page → Create Google+ Brand Page

Note: make sure to that you are logged in to your Google+ account when clicking on the link above!

Create Google+ brand page

As you can see from the screenshot above, there is a few categories to choose from, you can create pages for:

Local Business or Place
Product or Brand
Company, Institution or Organization
Arts, Entertainment or Sports
Other (you choose this if your page doesn’t fit in the above categories)

2- Add your Page Info

In my case I will just choose to feature Famous Bloggers as a Company, this is how I see it. So, I listed in under consulting and business services, and I set it to be publicly visible to everyone, of course I want every Google+ user to see it!

Famous Bloggers company page on Google+

Make sure to read Google+ Pages Additional Terms of Service before your proceed.

3- Hit the Create Button

Once you hit the create button, Google+ will give you a message that says “You are now using Google+ as this page. Your posts, comments, and notifications will be from this page.”, hit the OK button next to it to confirm!

You are now using Google+ as this page

Now it’s time to customize the page!

4- Customize your page’s public profile

Simply add the tagline that describe your business and set a profile photo, this could be your logo!

Customize your page's public profile

5- Get the word out!

Spread the word out about your new page by sharing it on Google+

Spread the word about the new Google+ page

Congratulations! (You are done!)

Famous Bloggers on Google+

Here is how our page looks like:

Alright, now that I’ve create the Famous Bloggers Google+ page, I know that I will be busy this week tweeking it and adding awesome stuff, circles, and links.

It would be great if you add it to your circles.

It would be awesome to get to know how yours will look like!

Start creating you own page → Create Google+ Brand Page

Good luck with your business!

About Hesham Zebida

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I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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Samuel says:

Thanks Hesham for a detailed explanation of how to create a Google+ Page. I already did that myself, and was as easing as eating cake :) Google's instructions were detailed very nicely.
jigar doshi says:

thanks for the detailed information :) but i still feel that it will take some time before people open up to google+ pages..
Minesh Rai says:

After a long gestation period of over 4 months Google announced its new Google+ Brand Pages on November 7. I’ve created a new Google+ Brand Page for Mirolta today. While creating the page I noted down its procedure and would like to discuss it with you.
Jasper says:

I already have my Google+ page, and i love using it now. I really enjoy the games too. I just wish that they can improve the adding of friends in your circle, because you still need to know their email address instead of their names. It was nice to read your post. Great instructions!
Mitch Mitchell says:

Very nicely laid out Hesham. I've looked but don't see that anyone else has asked this question, but can you have more than one of these pages? I have two businesses and 3 independent blogs that I'd love to set up, but if you can only have one page overall then I need to think about which one I'd highlight, although I pretty much know which one it would be.
Jeff Gross says:

It is very easy to follow your instructions and create. Nicely explained topic with great illustrations. I'll follow your steps to create my first Google+ brand page. Thanks again Hesham on sharing useful tips.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Hey Jeff, Actually, the steps to create a Google+ page is quite easy and so clear that no one should messed it :) Thanks for stopping by!
Peter says:

I am trying to do this now and I want to see the outcome of this. I'll follow all the instructions that you have given me in this article.
Caroline says:

So where do I go for changing the settings of my new page?!
- Caroline says:
  
  Ok sorry, i finally find it! Is there a way to post blogposts directly to my stream?
  - Hesham Zebida says:
    
    Not that I'm aware of!
Vikas Arora says:

Creating a brand page will express the expertise of people and its really good explores business to own circle. Google have made really easy steps and you have well expressed them. Thanks
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Thanks Vikas.
Sandeep Kumar says:

Thanks for your suggestion
Cris says:

Thank you for this post i just finished creating my google+ webpage and hopefully i will get some followers soon. here is my google+ page goo.gl/rkkrd
AIDY says:

Nice post indeed. I recently began a Facebook page--as recent as yesterday! It seems now I have to start on Google. I think that Google is much better. More interactive, and appealing. Thanks for the guide!
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Hey Aidy, Creating your Google+ page should should take a few minutes, it's better to be everywhere :)
michelle says:

is there a way to transfer my circles from my personal page to my brand page?
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  This is something I wish Google+ allow, I would love to transfer my Circles from my personal page to the new Google+ brand page! But so far.. There is no relation between personal pages on Google+ and Brand pages except that you are the owner of both pages and you can manage them both!
  - Caroline says:
    
    But how do I manage my brand page? I cannot find the settings for it!
    - Hesham Zebida says:
      
      Under your image on the left side, there is a very small drop down select menu!
Marty says:

I've just created my page on Google+ too. Seems that Google is set to replace Facebook. Now it would seem compulsory for every self respecting site or blog to have a G+ page. Let's see how that works.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  The good thing I see about Google+ Facebook competition is benefit for users/members like us, hopefully we can take the best of them!
Tushar Agarwal says:

Very timely information for me. I am new to Google+ and i am trying to get my hand on few tutorials. This will certainly help me in my endeavor.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Glad to hear that Tushar !
karl young says:

Thank you very much for the advice it really helped. I am still not to sure that google+ can rival the greats (twitter&facebook). But as its SEO potential is huge then i think people/businesses are going to come running towards it,
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Since Google+ launched and almost everyone who has been part of it are getting extra traffic from the network! To me, this is more than I could get from Facebook, so why not creating a Google plus brand page for my blog? Just in case, I don't want to miss this :)
Ryan Biddulph says:

Simple and powerful steps Hesham! I've jumped on Plus big time recently and have noted an increase in traffic and brand awareness. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing! RB
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  The process is simply by it's nature, really :) but I just wanted to show how simple it is to my blog readers! Thanks for stopping by Ryan, and I hope your new page will benefit the business!
Greg says:

NICE! I've been waiting for this for quite awhile, I remember when they first announced the feature long ago. I just followed your tutorial and created a brand page. Easy as pie!
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Great, enjoy your new Google+ page!
Saket Jajodia says:

Just now created my Google+ Page.. Now waiting for lots of people to follow me there.. ;)
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Haha.. You don't have to wait for people to follow you, you need to reach them out!
  - Saket Jajodia says:
    
    Yup, I meant that only and till now I at list reached to 1.. :p I hope soon there will be a 'M' after one.. ;) :P
    - Hesham Zebida says:
      
      Good to hear that :) Keep going!
Harleena Singh says:

Loved the tutorial Hesham! I had been waiting to hear about Google+ come up with business pages and here they have landed! I just read about it at 1-2 other blogs as well and am off to create one for my blog now! Thanks for sharing it with all of us in 5 simple steps- sure makes it easier to understand!
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Great Harleena , looking forward to see it :)
Tanya says:

Just signed up for mine this afternoon. I love it :) Its about time.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Awesome Tanya :)
Ming Jong Tey says:

Hey Hesham, Thanks for informing. Just created a page. G+ is catching up with FB. Not sure if we need that many social pages... Cheers, Ming
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Sometime I think the same, but let's say we've created our page in a try to be everywhere, we don't want to miss a hidden opportunity in any how!
Nishadha says:

This is much awaited and a great move by Google. I hope they introduce custom names soon.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  What do you mean by custom names?!
  - Nishadha says:
    
    Sorry if I wasn't specific before, something like plus.google.com/Nishadha like thing.
    - Hesham Zebida says:
      
      Ah, you mean custom URLs, or URLs that has your name instead of the huge number of digits that no one can recognize! Yes, of course.. that would be awesome!
Tory McBroom says:

Hmm, I too have been using personal pages as my brand pages for a few of my authority sites. I'll probably wait a little bit to see if there is a way to convert those into brand pages in the near future. I would assume there is a LOT of people that did the same thing.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Troy, it would be awesome if Google+ bring a way to transfer circles between personal accounts and business pages, but I am afraid in real life it won't make sense! P.S. nice tut in your commentluv link!
Gregory Ciotti says:

Hmmm... not sure what to do about this. I've been building a following on my personal page exclusively, is it worth it to also try to build a brand page? What will you be doing Hesham?
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  I've done the same, and now I have to start over some how, but let's say that when you create a page on G+ for your business at lease you are securing your brand!
Tia Sparkles Singh says:

I added a circle called pages to put pages in, ha!
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Aha, this is exactly what I did by the way !
Tia Sparkles Singh says:

Next step: go to gplus.to and get a vanity url / username for your page :)
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  That's a good trick :)
- Caleb says:
  
  Another that I used for have an easier to hand out url for my personal g plus id is gplusid.com...one thing I am wondering is if the pages can repost your blog posts as I have only found one method which I posted on MSB?
  - Hesham Zebida says:
    
    Thanks for sharing Caleb!
Dave Lucas says:

Okay, Hesham! NOw I went and made one too! https://plus.google.com/109003629733757020369
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Great, looking forward to see more content on it soon :) Plussed and Circled!
Devesh says:

Hey Hesham, This is so cool. Just created an Google Page for Technshare. Thanks for sharing.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Great :)
Sharon Hurley Hall says:

Dead simple isn't it, Hesham? I saw your page and went straight off to do mine. Nice tut, thanks.
- Hesham Zebida says:
  
  Hey Sharon, Yes, pretty simple indeed! When I saw the first step "create page" page, I knew I would be so simple that I can actually publish a nice post ;)

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