This is the era of text messaging; people prefer to send text messages rather than talk on phones, as that gives them the freedom of doing so many other things at the same time. This lead to creation of so many text messaging applications, which allow you to talk one to one or interact in a group. Which in turn has given rise to a new avenue for businesses to explore; can this messaging "addiction" be leveraged by businesses to make that sale? The conversation (Chatting) with customers with humans behind the desk has been done for quite sometime, remember Call centers, but scaling it to the level where your business is ready to chat with each and every customer on your website is a different ball game all together. That's where ChatBots are being proposed as the solution.

1.First of all you will need a Google+ profile. If you don't have one this is a good time to create one!

2.Then while you are setting up Contact profile in Joomla, ensure that you enter correct Google+ profile url in Web URL field as displayed in below image

3.Do add link of your site under "Contributor to" section of Google+ profile (under edit profile) as displayed in below image

4.After you have done all this, and enabled the plugin. You can immediately test whether integration with Google+ and Google Search is working or not by going to  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets Enter the url of your page and if the result shows image of the author as displayed below, then the integration is working just fine.

Now it is just a matter of time before your image starts appearing on Google search. Some times you may need to add a new Article / blog to your site so that google can crawl the site for the search index to get updated and new results to start showing up.