Using a company for Google authorship?

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Can you use a company's page as the author for google authorship or does it have to be an actual persons google + account for it to work ?

I.e. could i have it showing in search results as "-by acme co" rather than "-by simon smith "

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 28 '13 at 00:31

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Google+ pages can not be used as Authors. Authorship needs a profile (person). Company / Organisation can only have pages therefore they can only be publishers , not authors.

company/organisation page" rel="publisher" />
person profile" rel="author" />

edited Feb 28 '13 at 00:31

John Conde

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answered Feb 27 '13 at 10:59

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:33

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Yes. Mashable has a good rundown on setting up a G+ brand page and you can find out how to implement authorship information in this answer to "How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?"

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answered May 22 '12 at 10:55

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Using a company for Google authorship?

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