Google Buzz – How to Connect Your Sites Easily [Tested]

By Ben Fisher On February 15, 2010 · Comments

[Final Verdict] How do I Link My WebSites, Twitter, FriendFeed etc.. Accounts to Post to Google Buzz?

Earlier today I posted about some tips for using Google Buzz. After some extensive testing of the theories below I have come to a final conclusion.

Most of the thoughts on how to “claim” a website as yours on your Google profile are just dead wrong. It is actually much easier than it sounds and actually falls in line with what Google REALLY wants to know about you as a webmaster. What sites do YOU OWN as a webmaster. By allowing Google to know the sites you own you are also telling Google what sites they should in a sense ignore when it comes to interlinking.

Back to the fact at hand. I tested all the theories below (excluding the fore re-crawl, since the service was down) and none worked very well or in a timely manner. The I recalled a Buzzlet I had seen in passing today.

Add your websites to Google WebMaster Tools and they will show in your Google profile and on the “Connected Sites” Buzz page immediately.

So I went into the Google Webmaster tools and verified a bunch of sites I regularly maintain as well as some clients sites and then a few that I never maintain so I could establish a baseline in case there was a time lapse in re-crawl.

To my surprise and delight, all the sites that I verified showed as options on my profile and on Google Buzz immediately.

Note: There was one drawback to this test. All my followers were instantly spammed by Google Buzz with recent posts from every site I connected, even the hello world post from a new WordPress install.

Buzzlet Opinions:

Force a re-crawl of your sites too from @bradfitz https://sgapi-recrawl.appspot.com/

“Go there and force-recrawl any “me” links you’ve just added to the site(s) you want connected to your Buzz. ”

David J. MacKay - If you’re a WordPress blogger, after you’ve added a custom link to your blog on your Google Profile, you can easily add the required XFN markup by simply adding a new link to your blogroll.
The new link must point to your Google Profile URL and in the Link Relationship section check ‘another web address of mine’ so that the link contains the rel=”me” attribute

Bruce Wagner - Another (simpler) option: Use ping.fm It’s the only sensible way to post to 3 (or 80) networks at once. Even by email or sms. Connect Gtalk to ping.fm then connect Gralk to Buzz. Now ping.fm posts to twitter AND buzz instantly! …not to mention Facebook and 50 other sites too.
*Just hooked this up on my WordPress site: Using the WPing.FM plugin, works perfectly (Just make sure in options to select Post to Ping.FM on new post only.

Have you connected your sites and was this guide helpful?