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- Firstly, ensure you are logged-in to your G+ page.
- Click the "Home" button on the left hand side of the top bar (directly underneath the Google+ logo).
- This will bring up a drop down menu, if indeed one can bring up something which drops down.
- Click "Profile" and this should take you to the equivalent of your facebook wall.
- Directly underneath your cover picture you will see another menu. Click "About".
- This will open the page containing all the different sections containing information you have provided about yourself.
- Look for the section called "Links".
- At the bottom of this section you should see the word "Edit" and this should be highlighted in blue. Click it.You should now see the following dialogue box:
- If you want to add links to sites like facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc look for "Manage Connected Accounts" (again, this should be highlighted in blue).
You can also access this from the drop down menu mention in Step 3 and then clicking "Settings" > "Account" and you should see the same link to "Manage Connected Accounts" at the very bottom of the page, on the right hand side. - Click "Connect an Account" which should be directly underneath any links you've already added, or that Google has found for you.
- This should bring up a list of popular networking sites including: facebook; Yahoo; Flickr; Linkedin and Twitter (there are about 12 in all).
- Simply enter your Account name or profile link (e.g. www.facebook.com/christopher.spalding) and Google+ will add a link to this site.
- If the site you wish to link to is not on the list in Step 11, click "Add Custom Link" which you should find directly above the "Manage Custom Links" link on the "Links" page mentioned in Step 9 (you won't see it there if you're editing from the "Settings" > "Account" link though).
- You will see two greyed out boxes, one marked "Label" and one marked "URL". Simply enter your name for the link (e.g. My Blog) in the "Label" box and add the URL (web address) to the box marked "URL". If you're not sure, you can always visit your page you want to link to and copy the web address from the address bar on your internet browser (i.e. Internet Explorer / Firefox / Chrome). It will look something like: http://stationeryexplorer.blogspot.com.
- When you have finished entering all the links you want, go to the bottom of the "Links" page (this is be the page you are already on) and click "Save" - sorry if that sounds patronising, but if you have a long list of links, you mightn't be able to see it without scrolling down.
Most professional sites use these icons (also known as Shortcut Icons); a good example is the white "f" in a blue box for facebook.
If the site you're adding is one you've made yourself, and it is hosted on your own domain (e.g. +Roz Morris www.mymemoriesofafuturelife.com*) you need to make sure you have a favicon and that it is linked to within the Head tags of any webpage where you want the icon displayed (in the address bar of your browser).
If you made the page yourself, I'll assume you know a bit about HTML code. The icon look should look something like this:
<head> <title>Karzy Web Portal</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" //space added for neatness
href="http://www.karzy.co.uk/stat.ico" /> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" //space added for neatness
href="http://www.karzy.co.uk/stat.png" />
*If you have a domain name pointed at, for example, a Wordpress site, the favicon displayed will be the one you've chosen via Wordpress, so you won't have to worry.
