Google Authorship for SEO Content Writers

[Clicksjim]

I am interested to know the best way to go about about Google authorship on blog articles written for a client. For example is it a bad idea for an SEO content writer to publish articles under their own identity, what are the potential footprint downsides to this?

[ske11]

If you are adding them to the clients site I would tend to use the clients profile, assuming the client was ok with this.

If it is for guest blogging then again as long as the client is ok with the quality of the work you are producing and are happy to have their name used on the other sites I would use the clients profile.

If the client is not ok with this you should learn why as this could be an indication they do not like or understand what you are doing. If it is because they want their name only associated with their content (as an industry expert might) then you need the profile setting up of an employee of that firm and use that in your postings.

I hope that helps

Sean