Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Cite Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwards your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non hold upwards deleted too you lot tin maintain to sign inward straight if you lot accept that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If you lot accept an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, you lot volition maintain to hold upwards able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If you lot accept a YouTube channel, gamer tag, work concern or brand, you lot may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger work concern human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, you lot tin associate you lot spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile shout out volition withal hold upwards the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin you lot practise if you lot don't desire your personal Google+ Profile shout out associated amongst your blog? How tin you lot spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You accept a span of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer too write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if you lot accept an former Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets you lot maintain your pseudonymity spell using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin uncovering this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin build your shout out less prominent past times removing the "Author" champaign from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer shout out may non hold upwards equally visible on your blog, it may withal look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your shout out too Google+ Profile may hold upwards linked to whatever comments you lot make.

If you lot desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i choice is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" choice from the menu.

Alternatively, larn straight to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downward side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that you lot volition no longer hold upwards able to role Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" you lot tin instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the choice to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin banking concern correspond to run across if you lot older Page too its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), too clicking the Brand Account name. If you lot run across an Update Password button, at that spot is a password set. If you lot don't run across that button, that is non an option.

To role Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, you lot bespeak to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets you lot add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google work concern human relationship e-mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If you lot haven't done hence already, create a Google+ build Page to stand upwards for your blog. You tin practise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page too connected YouTube channel
Make authorities notation of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's e-mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the e-mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the e-mail work concern human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition accept a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If you lot are using Chrome you lot tin alt-click the push too choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail e-mail to your Google+ Page too you lot are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, larn ahead too click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwards a novel browser too sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username too password. Once you lot are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should run across your Google+ Page's profile photograph too shout out inward the upper correct corner too a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin click the orangish button.

6. Now you lot tin sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page too post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, larn to your Settings too promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin you lot volition hold upwards able to alter your blog's Layout, run across your Stats too more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your hugger-mugger blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog