Assigning g+ page as author?

[Ouzan]

Hey,

Recently we are quite disturbed about if we should assign our business g+ page as an author for main pages of the site and home page?

I will explain shortly:
We are a group of professionals that write content (each one on his own subject), the posts / reviews / videos etc... we make are each assigned to our personal g+ profiles.

Now my question is:
What should we do with pages like the homepage or main pages?
Should we assign the website g+ business page as the author? or publisher is enough?

[gfiedel]

My understanding on this is that it's best to use rel=author for individual attribution and re=publisher for the business.

I would use publisher for Home and pages on the website that represent the business as a whole, not individuals.

Hope that makes sense.

[Doc_Sheldon]

Gina is correct, Eliran. rel="author" is intended only for personal G+ profiles. You would need to set up your company's G+ page as the publisher and embed the rel="publisher" tag on your site, then use rel="author" for each individual author. You can review the procedure here: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1708844

[Ouzan]

Hi Gina, Sheldon,

Thanks for your answers.

As you can see here: www.websiteplanet.com I already did what you said long ago.
Every page on my website have rel=publisher of the company g+ account and every post / review etc.. have in addition rel=author of the personal author.

My question is, should I set rel author ot homepage also? and set it as the company g+ profile.

[gfiedel]

Hi Eliran,

I believe both Sheldon and I have both answered your question by saying to use rel=publisher on the Home page.

Is there something we are both not understanding about your question?

[Ouzan]

Thanks.

Just please let me get it clear: So I shouldn't use Rel Author on homepage? and assign the website G+ as the author?

Publisher is enough?

[gfiedel]

Sheldon, I'll leave this to you for the final call. But I would say "yes", a Home page should be publisher, not author.

[Doc_Sheldon]

That's correct, Gina. Eliran, you need to set rel="publisher" on your home page and tie it to the company page on G+. Using rel="author" set to a company page won't work (it may check out as okay on the rich snippet testing tool, but it won't appear in the SERPs, and it won't tie the G+ page and the site together in the Knowledge Graph)