Friend Connect will be retired March 1, 2012 Friend Connect will be retired March 1, 2012

We're retiring Friend Connect on March 1, 2012. Find out how you can keep in touch with your community.

Friend Connect will be retired March 1, 2012

Keep in touch with your community

As previously announced, we are retiring Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012. We encourage you to create a Google+ page and place a Google+ badge on your site. When you bring your community of followers to Google+, you can use new features like Circles and Hangouts to keep in touch.
Check out the links below to find out how you can continue to manage your community with Google.

• Setup a Google+ page
  Google+ pages allow you to interact with your community on Google+. With a Google+ page, you can add people to circles, manage your profile, share your content, +1 comments and photos, and create or join Hangouts.
• Add a Google+ badge to your website
  Linking your Google+ page and your site like this not only helps you build relationships with friends and followers, but also gives Google information we can use to determine the relevancy of your site to a user query in Google Web Search.
• Send a newsletter inviting your community to your Google+ page
  Newsletters are an easy way to update your Google Friend Connect community about changes to your site .
• Export your community data 
  Use the admin UI or the Google Friend Connect API to access your member data.