Best practice for author tags: G+ personal or G+ company page?
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I work for a company that has a corporate G+ page. I have a personal G+ page. When I write articles for the company blog there are 2 questions that come up:
(1) for the rel="author" tag within the blog posting on the company's blog, should I reference my personal G+ page, or the company's G+ page as the author?
(2) which G+ page, mine or my company's, should share the link to the blog posting on the company's site? Or should both share it?
My goal is to build up author rank for either me or the company I work for (don't care which) so that after a while the Google organic search listing will include the author thumbnail if the article ranks for the search query. I don't care if the thumbnail is me or my company; just trying to figure out how to best link everything to maximize the chance of getting an author thumbnail in the search rankings.
Thanks!
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Thanks, Tom. Just what I was looking for.
Another question, kind of related: On my company's home page is it better to have a +1 button (so users can +1 the page) or a G+ button (so users can follow our company). Not sure which is a stronger signal -- lots of +1s or lots of followers? Thanks...
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So you are telling that ! I have to add a My photo instead of my company Logo ? and i like to ask another doubt - which i think "creating new question will be not so good"
Using WordPress Premium Theme for my blog and using the customization i hide the date in for viewers under the title and any place in my blog.
Before: when Google search my Photo displayed with the blog and time "10 Hours ago or 5 min ago"
But now it shows ! Sri Ganesh.M has n number of ppl in the circles !no time ! Will it affect in SEO of my Blog ?
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If you use your company G+ URL in the author tag, you will not see any benefit. The image won't appear in the SERPs and Google has been quite explicit in saying they want the author tag to be for real people and won't pass any of its benefits (ie, future author rank) on to a corporate page.
My inclination is to say: use both G+ accounts to their fullest. Both promote it, use your profile for a rel=author markup, use the company page for a rel=publisher markup. My inkling is that if a page is linked to an active, engaging G+ company page via rel=publisher, then at some point in the future that will make the website appear more authorative. You'll only get the thumbnail in the SERPs if you use your personal profile, but I'd definitely share on both accounts (or make the company share first and then you share from that same post).
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