Google Plus is gaining 40 million new users per month

Is it time to dump Facebook and only use Google Plus? Personally, I have twice the followers on Google Plus than Facebook, but changing requires time and energy and are the benefits worth it. 2 months ago Google Plus had 186 million users now it has 266 million users (here), over 40 million new users per month or 21% monthly growth. Facebook has less than 1% per month growth.
I find it funny when people tell me "I can't leave Facebook because all my friends are there" when they don't have a Google Plus account. Maybe half of their friends are on Google plus and they don't even know who they are missing out on. I do find that with any social media it is a lot like reading the news -- if it is not in the feed you don't hear about it. I could go on about how much better the security is on Google Plus or how you still own your pictures / videos, but most people are convinced via fear so let me leave you with this last statement. If you don't join Google Plus now you will be left behind. :)

How to sell your Website -- G+ Badge

Last week I have been adding G+ Badges to web pages and then logging into Google Analytic to see the difference. Organic search results doubled. WOW! When you realize that it takes over 2000 ad displays in Facebook to get 1 click doubling your page views, just by adding a G+ Badges is a marketers dream. You might not even have to buy Ad words any more. A lot of the visit might just be from new people logging into Google+ and seeing what their friends are plusing. Or it might be the amazing growth of Google Plus, *Over 1.5 million per day*. One problem I see with Google Plus is people aren't forced to ad their friends like they are "used to" on Facebook. I encourage every one to at least add their Real Life friends to their Friends Circle. As in the example below.

Is Google+ growing?

I just learned of two ways of telling how many people are using Google+ 1. Total number of Google+ Profiles :site:plus.google.com -inurl:about 2. Total number of Posts :site:plus.google.com -inurl:posts If you haven't used the :site: command in Google you need to give it a try. Select the text and highlight, Right Click, and select “Search Google for” on these links Right now I get 186 million profiles, but probably only half of that are daily users. Yesterday I blogged about that facebook had 10 times more users, but according to Khalil only 9 times more unique users.