How to Add a Google Plus Profile Headline

Google+ profiles offer the opportunity to have a strategic headline similar to the headline you can have on your LinkedIn profile.

The headline in Google+ is NOT the same as the "Introduction" in your profile.

In Google+ after you click on the profile icon at the top of the screen that takes you to your profile, you automatically see "Edit Profile" to the right on the same line as your name.

When you click on this, you aren't yet in editing mode for your profile. You have to hover over a specific area of the profile and then click on that area to get the editing mode for just that area.

But nowhere in that screen could I find the ability to add a headline, as I had seen on other people's profiles.

Refusing to give up, I clicked on various things until I found the answer. And now I'll share this with you:

Under your profile name is a line that says "A brief description of you" — that's where you click to add a headline — and a little box opens.

When you're done typing in the box, or when you've exceeded the unknown number of characters, you click on save. Voila! You now have a headline that can be revised by the same method (clicking on the headline to open the little box).

And I've been revising my headline. As Google+ is connected to Google's search engine algorithms, I've been considering what keywords do I want in my Google+ headline.

Now on LinkedIn it is against the terms of service to put a URL in your headline (even though it won't be a hot link). But I'm emulating social media guru Chris Brogan on Google+ as at this time he does put his site URL in his headline. For now I'm trying my company's URL in my headline and hoping it isn't a violation of Google+ terms of service.

Oh, yes, Google+ is yet another brave new social media world, albeit one with great opportunities. The sooner you jump into the water, the sooner you'll learn to navigate in Google+.

See my Google+ "work-in-progress" profile at http://gplus.to/PhyllisZimblerMiller

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Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the marketing consulting company Miller Mosaic, LLC, which offers "done for you" and "do it yourself" social media services at www.millermosaicllc.com/services/

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