Can a rel author tag point to a Google+ business page

[mark_baird]

I’m trying to get my blog posts to show with rich snippets but they are a collaborative effort from our staff and as such are posted under our business name. We do have some guest bloggers who write under their own name and we use the author tags to show this. Is there a similar way to do this with a business?

[brad.s.knutson]

You'll want to use a rel="publisher" tag.  More info here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1708844?hl=en

[Find us on Google+](https://plus.google.com/yourpageID)

[DarinPirkey]

That would be rel=publisher but I haven't seen it show up for searches when I'm not signed in to my Google+.  Meaning that I believe (no evidence) that it only shows up the company logo when someone who is searching is signed into G+ and already follows the brand.  Not 100% on that.

You can check to see if rel=publisher is markedup correctly in Google's rich snippets testing tool.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

I have it for my homepage,  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=www.vzpro.com  You'll see half way down the page that there is a place that shows Publisher markup