Google Author Tag, Publisher Tag for Businesses

[deuce1s]

I understand that a person can place a Google author tag on the website, and a reciprocal link under the "Contributor To" section of the person's Google+ profile page.

What about Google+ pages? Can a business (or Google+ page) be an author? The "Contributor To" section doesn't seem to be present for my Google+ Page....

What about the publisher tag? Can you have both an author and a publisher tag?

My end goal is to have our company name and avatar to appear as an author in SERPs. Which tag is going to help me achieve this?

[IPINGlobal54]

Hi - hope this helps!

I understand that a person can place a Google author tag on the website, and a reciprocal link under the "Contributor To" section of the person's Google+ profile page.

Yes you can - add the google+ tag to your author profile on your site like this <a <span="">rel</a><a <span="">="author" href="</a>https://plus.google.com/your google profile number?rel=author">+Your Google Name

What about Google+ pages? Can a business (or Google+ page) be an author? The "Contributor To" section doesn't seem to be present for my Google+ Page....

No - it doesn't work like that - create your google company profile page using your personal google+ profile. Add a link to your site in the website field on the about section on your profile, and add a link to your site from the recommended links section.

What about the publisher tag? Can you have both an author and a publisher tag?

Yes you can. There are a few options for this - most of which include a button, but you can opt for the no badge function which will give you the code for just a head tag to add to your site. To link and verify your company profile - go to your personal profile page, then click your company page, then, hit get started and click the link for "get your badge" under the "connect your website" section and select the style of badge or code you want from there.

You can have a publisher tag on your site and multiple different author tags with no conflict.

My end goal is to have our company name and avatar to appear as an author in SERPs. Which tag is going to help me achieve this?

Once you have added both codes above, you will find that you can post as your company if you go to your company profile and share publicly and your company avatar will show alongside the posting. The company won't show as the author though.