Google Authorship and Hobby Blog

[JerrodDavid]

I hope that someone can help me come up with the best option. Please forgive my ignorance on this issue.

I have a hobby blog and up until now I have not wanted to associate it with my real name. It is a menswear blog about classic American style. I was afraid that it may be a hindrance if I was ever looking for a more conservative career than SEO. I am now reconsidering this and thinking that claiming it may be of more help than harm. Which brings me to Google Authorship.

My dilemma and misunderstanding stems from the fact that I have mutliple Gmail accounts. I am guessing that some of the newer accounts have a G+ associated with them. So my question is do I use the email that is associated with my blog or my main gmail that I use personally? If I do use the gmail associated with the blog will it then become my default Google plus profile?

Any insight would be helpful. Thanks in advance. If any of you are interested the hobby blog is Oxford Cloth Button Down.

[OrionGroup]

Each Google accounts has separate G+ profiles. You can have multiple Google Plus Pages in a profile, but only one personal profile in that account.

If you want to keep things separate from your personal name, you could perhaps use a pen name for your blog site. A Google Plus profile requires a real name, but I don't think it would hurt to create a pen name for your blog's Gmail account.

Here's some resource material for you that I found while searching this morning: http://www.modea.com/blog/relauthor-relpublisher-seo-today

Scott O.

[Chris.Menke]

Jerrod,

Use the g+ (email) account you want to be most closely associated with your name.  Down the road, it is going to be how google identifies Jerrod David online. It will include a history of your interaction with Oxford Cloth Button Down, as well as any other interactions, posts, comments that Google can assign to that identity and that identity may bring strength to any domain to with which it's been verified. (Verification is going to be the topic of your next question.)   It's more difficult to maintain multiple identities in Google these days so chose wisely and maintain your online identity as you would your real identity--always think about what you're doing and remember that any action may reflect on you for a long time.