[googlealchemist]

This just hit me as pretty obvious but wanted to poll for info and generate awareness of possible footprint at the same time.

If one has a whole bunch of different blogs for their own network, on different cclasses, whois enabled, etc etc to keep them from being tied together via any sort of footprint...

Your obviously creating unique author names to post as for each individual site correct?

And our own wp networks aside, this seems more and more relevant these days to have incredibly spun/diverse usernames for whatever your posting with.

Dunno if its being tracked now but I'm sure G will at some point in the near future if not, and it doesnt seem like it would be hard to add to the algo.

On the one hand, lots of great discussion on the growing importance of author authority, which would seem to make having the same username everywhere a good thing. On the other hand, what determines to G what the difference is between an authoritative author and a spammer distributing content all over?

Thoughts?

[Parto]

My thought is that the username "Admin" should be so common that they can't find any footprints by only looking at that name.

[mofoe]

we use admin and some random bogus name. 77 blogs who who is privacy.

Edited by mofoe, 14 February 2012 - 12:27.

[googlealchemist]

yes i figured as much re admin, was more thinking if there were unique 'real person' type usernames setup

[ARVolund]

googlealchemist, on 14 February 2012 - 12:48, said:

yes i figured as much re admin, was more thinking if there were unique 'real person' type usernames setup

I use a different name on each blog and to get them I use

http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

[Pat Jackson]

ScrapeBox has a name generator, too.

[Nanny Rose]

Or just remove the names altogether

[Juvv]

I like making up the new names. It makes my day so much brighter.

[Fixer]

Juvv, on 15 February 2012 - 02:30, said:

I like making up the new names. It makes my day so much brighter.

Lol, your days sound fun

I use a mix, admin and random names, some just first names, some full names etc. the intention of the networks I run are not to gain any authority writers just have a overall strong site without too much attention grabbing from G.

[Juvv]

Don't be mean

[googlealchemist]

Figured as much, now to the more practical question....anybody got a bot for sale to go in and create/add a new user with the proper authorship?
Would hate to think of doing it manually for this many blogs yikes!

[MattW]

googlealchemist, on 14 February 2012 - 12:10, said:

what determines to G what the difference is between an authoritative author and a spammer distributing content all over?

I would imagine having a Google+ profile linked with the rel="author" markup would go a long way in distinguishing you from the spammers.