Google Plus Affecting Google Searches

The catch is that you need to join Google+ and get people to add you to their Google+ Circles. Then you’ll rank very well when they do searches, as long as they’re logged in. At least, that’s what Danny Sullivan discovered on a recent search. Sullivan is friends on Google+ with Ford, one of the few companies that Google lets maintain a profile on the social network. It’s strictly as a test account. Google plans to let other brands and businesses open up accounts on Google+ some time in the future, but for now, as Sullivan noted, if you see a business on Google+ without a big red bar on its pro…