The Google Friend Connect service allows webmasters to add social networking features and drive more traffic to a specific website. In order to provide a better implementation of Google Friend Connect service, Google has released the Google Friend Connect Social Bar, which can be introduced at the top or the bottom of website pages. It has the role to ensure a better exposure of the social gadgets and as a consequence to increase the visitors accessibility to all social networking features from a single place. (related article: Google Friend Connect Beta Enables The Building Of New Social Networks)

Google Friend Connect Social Bar includes multiple social gadgets in a single menu bar, saving the web pages space as compared with the situation when the gadgets are added one by one. In this way, the web pages will have more space for content, while the website social networking features are organized in an optimal manner.

Google Friend Connect Social Bar can also be used as a complement to the existing social gadgets. It concentrates various social networking functions, such as user identity, activity taking place on the website (the links to the newest added content are displayed in the middle of the bar), wall gadget which allows the reading and posting of the comments and members gadget, where new visitors can view the entire social network built with Google Friend Connect.

If you do not have already added the Google Friend Connect service to your website, in order to include the Google Friend Connect Social Bar into web pages, the creation of a new account is required. The options of the bar functionality are easy to configure.

The inclusion of Google Friend Connect into a certain website has many advantages regarding the SEO and website exposure. The comments written by your social network users, practically represents new content. Following other users websites links, you can also post comments on their articles and include links in comments content.

This practice could determine the creation of a higher number of one way links to your website (if the nofollow directive does not apply to comments), but the website exposure increases, reflected in a higher traffic volume.

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