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Google Reader’s New Sharing Options (Plus a Shared Items Twitter Sharing Tip!)

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by combimish in SEO

Google Reader unleashed new shar­ing options this week, con­tin­u­ing the slow but steady trend of turn­ing the news­reader into a social media platform. 

Let’s say I’m read­ing the Search Engine Watch expert col­umn feed. I now have the option to “Like” the post. Google Reader tracks the num­ber of peo­ple doing so and places the tally under the sub­ject line.

If you click on the num­ber of peo­ple lik­ing a post, you’ll get a list of those peo­ple. Click on a name and you’ll be taken to their Google Pro­file page. From there, you can con­nect with that per­son depend­ing on what they have shared. Users can share their Face­book, Twit­ter, Friend­Feed accounts and more. 

This is a great way to find fol­low­ers on Twit­ter. I’ve started to fol­low those of you lik­ing SEW posts. And I’m get­ting return fol­lows as well.

If you want to share your Google Reader shared items with your Twit­ter fol­low­ers, I rec­om­mend using Twitterfeed.com. Just use the RSS feed from your shared items page.

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