Is improving your personal SEO a reason to try Google Plus?

I’ve been playing around with Google+ for the first time this evening and my first impressions are favourable.

I was going to get used to Google’s new social network before blogging about it, and then I Googled myself shortly after joining and noticed a change in the results.

My Google profile has just shot up the rankings (surprise, surprise) to take the top spot that my LinkedIn profile previously occupied.

Google gives you +1 more work with little reward

Google is to launch its own version of the Facebook Like button.

Google +1 will let you “share recommendations with the world” in search results, but why you would want to do this is anyone’s guess.

Although positioned as helping users find the most relevant results – and surely that’s Google’s job, not mine – it’s website owners that will have to consider this most closely.