Google has launched a new radical way to share outstanding web pages with friends and work colleagues. The +1 button, which has been available in the Google search preview for a few weeks is now available for webmasters to add to pages.

This social media tool is set to use +1’s from friends and contacts to help Google when determining how relevant your page is. This is just one of many signals Google may use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking and could be the vital element in promoting your site to its users.

Currently everybody can see aggregate annotations. Signed-in users also see personalised annotations from:

• People in their Gmail (or Google Talk) chat list.
• People in their My Contacts group in Google Contacts.
• People they're following in Google Reader and Google Buzz.

If you find this page useful- why not PLUS ONE Tortrix? And if you want to add this exciting feature to your own website, you can contact us at info@tortix.net and we’ll be happy to help.