Writing on 2 Very Separate Topics. Will Authorship Be Affected?
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Hi guys,
During the day I'm a PPC and SEO associate at a software company that provides merchant accounts and payment processing for small business owners. Think PayPal meets Quickbooks. For this job, I write lots of content on payment processing, merchant accounts, the benefits of ACH transfers, etc.
However, during the evenings, I work on my side-business, which is a fitness marketing company. For this site I'm doing lots of content production based on increasing gym membership, crossfit marketing, etc.
I'm getting authorship for all of the posts I'm writing (my image is showing up in SERPs). Do you guys think there is any adverse effects to having authorship on content that is so drastically different? Will Google punish us for having 50% of my posts are about merchant accounts and the other 50% are about fitness marketing?
Thanks!
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I write for one website but my topics might include: insurance, education, art, bulk commodities, space, wildlife, construction or economics. Lots of writers can write about many topics and lots of people are polymathic. Most of the people at google I will bet are polymaths.
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That's kind of what I was thinking too. There's just so much going on with Google right now that I'm wondering how they're dealing with multi-content authors.
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People often have more than just one interest and writers will often be interested in writing about more than one subject - I have no basis for this, but it seems logical that Google should be fine with it. I would think that as long as the content is good then you'll be fine.
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