Thursday Tutorials: Creating a Google+ Page

I figure this is the next tutorial in the fun world of Social Media and I have a couple sites I need to create Google+ Pages for, so now is the time to do it.  If you haven't read the tutorial from last week which covers how to chose the proper category for your Google+ page, I suggest stopping here and checking that article out.  Otherwise, if you're confident in being able to chose your category, continue reading.

Just like in the article where we talk about Adding Managers to your page, view your profile in Google+.  You should see a screen like this:

Click on the profile button with the down arrow on the left hand side.  You should get a menu that looks like this:

Click on Pages, which will bring you a page like this (note: mine has pages on it already because I created/manage a handful of pages).

Click on the create a page button and it will automatically take you to the first part of the process where you have to select the category from the five options below (note: fewer main category selections to chose from, but pretty  much similar to Facebook's options).

Click on the category that fits you best.  For the page I am currently creating, I chose Arts, Entertainment or Sports as the page I'm working on right now is for a fansite for a Video Game.

Once you click on that category, just like on Facebook, you have a drop down menu of choices to select from as seen below.  I chose Video Game for this project, though website would have worked just as well.

Once you've finished the selection, click on next.  This will allow you to type in the name of your page as well as the website for it, if you have one.  Options for other categories may be different.

Once the information is typed in and accurate, be sure to click on the I agree to the terms box and click continue.

And the basic part of the page has been created.  Click on "Get Started" which will take you to your page's Dashboard and give you hints and tips to get started, as seen below.

This is pretty straightforward from here, but we'll follow up next week with a tutorial on how to finish setting up your page, including image sizes, and things to do to tweak it.

Until next time.

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