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Google Profiles now helps you increase your personal web presence in Google Search Results. Google is now showing Google Profiles at the bottom of U.S. searches for people.

A Google Profile is a great way to promote your Advanced Access real estate website and your business. Creating your own profile is fast, easy, and best of all, FREE!

If you don’t have a Google Account you will need to create one. If you have a Google Account or service like Gmail, you may already have a Google Profile. Log into your Google Account and then go to http://www.google.com/profiles.

A Google profile allows you to create a personal profile about yourself. Here is an actual Google Profile that Google features as an example http://www.google.com/profiles/timoreilly; it is for Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media. Notice the links he has on his profile page to his business and other sites he likes. Try this Google search for Tim O’Reilly; at the bottom of the page is a section titled Profile Results for Tim O’Reilly.

Wondering if there are any real estate agents using Google Profiles? Do this profile search for “real estate” and see for yourself.

Links to Google pages about Google Profiles:

Create your Google Profile
http://www.google.com/profiles

Google blog on Google Profiles
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/search-for-me-on-google.html

Google Help page on Google Profiles
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97703

Google Profile search page. Search Google Profiles
http://www.google.com/profiles?q=

Links to articles providing more details about using Google Profiles:

These articles get into increasing levels of detail about the nuts and bolts of using and setting up a Google Profile, and in some cases explain the process more fully than the Google help pages.

Tech Crunch: Quick Overview
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/google-profiles-finally-have-a-big-purpose-appearing-in-google-search-queries/

SEOmoz Detailed Overview
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-profile-search-rank-for-jennifer-lopez

Search Engine Land: Detailed technical overview
http://searchengineland.com/google-profile-results-launched-17865

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