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- Using the Share Box
- Sharing Photos
- Sharing Videos
- Sharing Links
- Summary
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Sharing Links
Google+ makes it easy to share links to external websites in your posts. For example, you might want to share your latest blog post or an interesting article you read on the Web.
To share a link on Google+, follow these steps:
- Click the Home icon the Google+ ribbon if you aren’t already on your home page.
- Click in the share box to expand it (refer to Figure 6.2). Alternately, click the Share button that displays in the upper-right corner of any Google+ page to access the share box.
- Type your post in the text box. For example, you can introduce or comment on the link you’re sharing.
- Click the Add Link button in the lower-right corner of the share box, as shown in Figure 6.15. The share box expands to display new fields.
Figure 6.15. Link to an interesting website or blog post.
- Enter the complete URL of the website page you want to link to, such as www.patricerutledge.com. Optionally, you can copy and paste a longer URL.
- Click the Add button. The share box displays the link name, its description, and an image (if available), as shown in Figure 6.16.
Figure 6.16. Preview your link before posting.
- Select the people or circles you want to share this post with or, optionally, make this post public. For a reminder of how to do this, refer to steps 5 through 7 in the section “Using the Share Box” earlier in this lesson.
- Click the Share button to share your post with the people you selected.
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Figure 6.17 shows a sample posted link, visible on the streams of the people you shared with as well as on your public profile if you selected to make this post public.
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Figure 6.17. Click a link to visit the shared site.