Is this mistake in use of 'publisher' meta tag

[gamesecure]

Hi There!,

There is a confusion with 'Publisher' meta tag. Instead of using 'Google+ page' we have used Google profile pages in meta 'publisher' tag on most of pages. Currently they all are indexed. Also, in 'Author' meta tag same Google Profile page is linked.

E.g. - on page - https://www.sitegeek.com/arvixe , following are the publisher and author tags:

<a href="https://plus.google.com/117949772080676863960" rel="<a class="attribute-value">publisher</a>">a>

<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102179677098786549874/about" rel="<a class="attribute-value">author</a>">

So I am not sure how much it would effect SEO rankings. Please suggest what would the best way to update it?

Further, site has its Google+ page: [https://plus.google.com/+Sitegeekcom/posts ] so it should be updated in 'publisher' tag or we should create a new Google+ page using existing Author Google+ profile.

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Rajiv

[hectormainar]

If it is a personal blog, it is a correct way of implementing those meta tags, as publisher and author is the same. If it is a site with several authors, I would change the publisher TAG so that it starts pointing your Google+ page, and the author tag pointing to your profiles.

So you will benefit of both tags.