This Complete Guide from The Social Media Hat reviews all of the currently available tools and options for scheduling posts to Google+, including which options are available for: 1. Personal Profiles 2. Brand Pages 3. Communities For more information and details, read the full article: http://www.thesocialmediahat.com/article/scheduling-google-posts-complete-guide

1. HOW TO SCHEDULE
GOOGLE+ POSTS
THE COMPLETE GUIDE

2. Scheduling Google+
Posts
No native method for scheduling available.
Multiple Third Party Options Available.
Personal vs. Brand vs. Community

3. PERSONAL PROFILES VS.
BRAND PAGES

4. Personal Profiles vs.
Brand Pages
Google has put limitations on what third-party
tools can do with profiles versus pages. Thirdparty tools like HootSuite interact with Google
products using a programming interface referred to
as the API.
In this case, Google has not yet set up the
Google+ API to permit the more established social
media management tools to post to or schedule
posts for Personal Profiles.

5. HOW TO SCHEDULE GOOGLE+
POSTS TO YOUR PERSONAL
PROFILE

6. DoShare
DoShare is currently the only available option I’m
aware of for scheduling personal Google+ posts.
With the tool, you can create a new post or be
visiting an article or website and send that page to
DoShare to start a new a post. Once within DoShare,
the interface actually provides a nice way to add a
Title and add bold and italics within the post, and
other features. You can change your mind and
decide to share the crafted post immediately, or set
it up to be shared at a later date.

7. DoShare pro’s:
Only available option for personal profiles
Offers nice formatting features, yet still supports
manual use of * and _ for those used to typing that
way.

8. DoShare con’s:
DoShare is a Chrome Extension so it only works
with the Chrome Browser.
Chrome must be running in order for the post to be
shared.
Learn more about DoShare.

9. HOW TO SCHEDULE GOOGLE+
POSTS TO YOUR BRAND
PAGE

10. DoShare
When you're crafting your post, in the lower right
you will see your profile image with a small drop
down arrow that you can click to reveal all other
Google+ Pages that you manage. Select one to
post as that Page.
The other Pro's and Con's and directions remain
the same for Pages as for profiles.

11. HootSuite
HootSuite is, without a doubt, my preferred tool for
social media management. And this is one of the
main reasons why. HootSuite fully supports Google+
- as much as Google currently permits - which
means that using HootSuite, you can create a post
and schedule it to be shared to one or more Google+
Pages just like you would any other HootSuite
composed post.

12. HootSuite pro’s:
Supports fully formatted Google+ posts, both Send
Now and Scheduled
Can also be used for ongoing monitoring of
Streams and Circles for Social Listening
Free account supports Google+

13. HootSuite con’s:
Does not support Mention look-ups (But you can
mention people and pages using this technique)
Learn more about HootSuite.

14. Buffer
Buffer is another great tool for social media
management that I regularly recommend, particularly
for scheduling. I actually use it in conjunction with
HootSuite, as a means to ensure that I have regular
activity on all my social networks, even when I’m
busy. That’s because the entire point of Buffer is to
have a daily schedule set up in advance with specific
time slots for each network. You can then add posts
to your queue and Buffer will go ahead and share
them in the next available time slot.

15. Buffer pro’s:
Supports fully formatted Google+ posts, both Send
Now and Scheduled
Free account supports Google+

16. Buffer con’s:
Does not support Mention look-ups (But you can
mention people and pages using this technique)
Learn more about Buffer.

17. HOW TO SCHEDULE
GOOGLE+ POSTS TO COMMUNITIES

18. DoShare
Yes, DoShare does in fact support Google+ Communities. When setting up a post to
be shared and scheduled, you can select one Community that you have joined using
whatever Google+ account you're logged into. You can only schedule one post to
one destination at a time though, so you wouldn't be able to schedule personal posts
at the same time as Community posts. You can, however, have mixed posts queued
up to be shared, so if you want to schedule posts to your personal profile as well as
one or more Communities, you simply have to craft each post individually.
And just as before, you can select whether or not you want to post as your personal
profile (default) or as your Brand Page.
The other Pro's and Con's and directions remain the same for Profiles and Pages.

19. OTHER TOOLS & OPTIONS

20. Sprout Social
Falcon Social
Sendible
Viralheat
Wildfire

21. For More Information
Scheduling Google+ Posts, The Complete Guide
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