Googe+ personal profile & business page conundrum
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I have asked this question before and am still seeking help. My apologies for being repetitive and hopefully not too pesky but I am sincere in my search for guidance.
I am looking for advice on how to manage my personal G+ profile along with my business G+ page. My challenge is the coordination between the two and getting people to add our biz page to their Circles instead of to me personally through my personal profile.
Google+ requires that we have personal profiles- especially for authorship, but it's my business that I want to represent and promote.
I do have the Google+ badge on my website and blog posts. And I am duplicating my posts on both the personal and business pages. I have joined a couple of communities and know that i need to find more and engage in those.
And also, another question this brings up: in terms of the social signal aspect for our company website/blog, does it matter where I am building my Circles?
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Thanks for the rel=publisher clarification. That's pretty much what I assumed. That's a great post by Ann Smarty as well. Thanks!
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It has been my experience that Google Plus is a lot like Facebook in the way they break out their Personal and Business pages. They make it difficult to solicit others through your Business page. I do what you are doing, put the original post on the business page, switch over to my Personal page and Share that post so that the people I have pulled in personally can see it. I have noticed people will click on my post and go to my business page and follow me from there.
Hope this helps.
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rel=publisher makes information about your business pop up in the right hand side of the serps when you search for the brand name (map, business info, reviews, related searches). This is where you would display your business entity, not yourself.
rel=author is what causes the icon to appear to the left of the result and must be an actual person.
You should be linking to your business page from the website and asking people to follow your places page. Your author profile is supposed to be more personal and used to connect your work from around the web (think guest blog posts).
Check out this great explanation by Ann Smarty on the difference between the two.
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Yah this is an odd issue. I've seen some people with their Google + profile face next to their business homepage. A little strange. Google also has the rel=publisher tag, but I'm honestly not sure what it does. I guess it is supposed to work like the rel=author tag... Obama uses it on the homepage:
In terms of the social signal aspect, no one can really answer that. Just try to be active in the Circles relevant to your industry. That's probably your best bet.
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