What Do You Know About Google Ripples

Google Ripples is a graphic that is interactive, and is a really cool way of viewing the shares of a post, as long as it is made public. It can be any post or URL that is publicly shared on Google+. Much like dropping a pebble in still water, it shows how your information has rippled through the network.

What Google Ripples Shows You

  When someone shares your post or URL on Google Ripples, it will show all those that have reshared that post or URL. And it will go on and on, showing the circles of people that keep sharing to their circles. One quick way of determining the influence a person has that is sharing is by the size of the circle that person has. This is just a rough estimate, as only publicly shared items show up. The comments users added when they reshared a link are displayed in the sidebar of With Google Ripples, any comments that are included in the share will also show up. By simply hovering over the persons name in the circle will show a brief profile of the person. Clicking their name will take you right to their Google+ page so you can read more about the person to see if they have similar likes. You can also zoom in and out by using the scroll function on your mouse, or alternately using the scroll bar on the left of the display.  

Google Ripples Will Show How Post Or URL Was Shared Over Time

  On the Ripples page at the bottom, there is an animated visualization you can play that goes through the time frame of the post to show how it was shared over that particular time.  

Statistics On How A Post Or URL Was Shared On Google Ripples

  Google Ripples page statistics on the link are found beneath the timeline. If someone is sharing hubs (people who had the most reshares of the post), then the link that was shared will show how it was shared, and in what language it was done.  

Google Ripples Displays A Lot Of Cool Information

  On thing to remember is the information you are looking at is not entirely accurate. It doesn’t show all the action that has taken place with the post or URL. It only shows the public data, whereas that same post could had been shared 100’s of times in a group or privately.   Just click the dropdown arrow at the top right corner of the post you’re curious about and click View Ripples to see the graph of all the shares. If the View Ripples link isn’t showing it is because that information hasn’t been shared publicly yet. If it’s a URL that you want to see the Ripples for, go to the Ripples dialog and enter the URL in the top right corner. A visualization of all the public shares will open up. To determine if a post is public simply look at the top of the post and if it is public it will have “Public” displayed next to the time stamp. If you come across a post that is really interesting, simply copy the URL and share the link in your stream.   [caption id="attachment_181" align="alignleft" width="150"] Google Ripples[/caption] PS… Google Ripples can increase your reach and help build a good following   PSS… Use THIS to help build your Google Ripples