Is it important for SEO that YouTube and Google + be used under the same Google Account?

[dirigodev]

Hello - I have a client that has their Google Plus and YouTube under separate Google accounts. My thoughts are that it'd be best for SEO and awareness with Google that their active YouTube channel to be under their active Google Plus account. My question is: Is it recommended for SEO that we upload the videos to her prominent Google business account (they only have about 100 subscribers)? If we did this we would delete them from the other account to avoid dup. content. We are in a position where we can make this change easily if it is recommended and good for SEO--which I would think it would be. So we would like to know now if we should make this change before we grow the YouTube channel further, or if we should leave it how it is.

Any insight would be very helpful! Thank you!

[benji1]

It kind of makes sense to include it on 1 account. I notice Google is trying to get users to consolidate google accounts now (if you have a few google accounts you'll notice the: what account do you want to login with option)

Definitely stick to 1 brand 1 Google account (for youtube and G+)

This works out well when using G+

[Travis_Bailey]

Benjamin is correct in regard to ease of management. For as simple as it should be, having multiple profiles confuses others quite a bit (namely, your team). You would lose those subscribers if you just up and killed the current Youtube account. How about a Youtube post on the current channel that states something like; "We've moved to X, so if you want to get the latest, subscribe to X channel".

Keep the old one up for a few months, and if any subscribers were remotely engaged - they can sub the new channel. Then everything will be easier to manage.

Of course, you could lose some referrals if you just ditch the current channel.

[benjaminmarcinc]

I think it is better for uniformity and branding of a person or business to have everything together under one google acct? In my opinion i don't think it will effect anything either way but it's probably easier ya know?