Google is developing a feature to help webmasters making their sites more social. Google Friend Connect promises helping “you grow traffic by enabling you to easily provide social features for your visitors”.
To add Google Friend Connect functionality to your site you’ll need to add some code to your site and features like user registration, invitations, members’ gallery, message posting, and reviews will be readily available. In addition gadgets and applications built by the OpenSocial community can be implemented using the same code.
Something like this could potentially generate a lot of traffic to your site as vistors will be able to interact with their peers from sites like Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn, orkut, Plaxo, and Google Talk without leaving your site.
Google Friend Connect hasn’t been launched to the public yet but you can sign up to be on the waiting list.
Tino
SEO Programmer
