Should I use a Google Plus page or Google Plus for my business?
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I am looking to write regular good quality blog posts about the niche subject my business is in.
Should these blog posts come from a Google Plus page or my personal Google Plus profile?
These blog posts will feature on our company website.
How does that effect Google Authorship etc...
Thanks
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I have to agree with Rich. I do the same thing. My company page is linked to the site and I am setup as the author using Rel author. I see both my company and my authorship listed when running third party tools.
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Are you posting the articles on your site? if so i believe you can probably do both here, the Business account can be linked to the website and you can also promote the posts through here, and you could use Rel author to associate the article to your personal account in order to build a reputatuion as an authority. If you will have multiple writers contributing that may move on then maybe using rel publisher and focusing on building the brand reputation may be better.
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