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• 1 Ed Eliot // Dec 13, 2007 at 9:49 am

  To me the answer to that question seems pretty obvious. Google have put such measures in place, I assume, as a way to ensure quality/trustworthiness of the articles they link to. Generally a blog won’t have multiple authors unless it falls into this category.

  Pretending you’ve got multiple authors probably hurts the quality of Google News and certainly deceives your users - how do you convince them to trust what you write if you’re lying about who you are.

  

• 2 Ryan // Dec 13, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  I think it’s a terrible idea.

  One, you’re lying to get around a guideline that exists to keep their information coming from more newsy sources and less personal ones. Yes, I understand that there are bloggers that write as well and accurately as writers for news sources. But that’s going to be the exception rather than the rule. Besides, many of the higher level bloggers are already writing on blogs with multiple authors.

  And two, what happens when your visitors find out that Bob and Chris are really both Rick posting under fake names? Some may not care, but you may lose some visitors over the dishonesty.

  This is actually a discussion that comes up between owners of forums. Some feel that it’s a good idea to seed a forum with a few fake accounts to make it look busy while some feel that it’s a bad idea. Whether you think it’s a good idea or a bad, it’s still dishonest and I think you risk the trust of your visitors by doing it.

  

• 3 Robert Irizarry // Dec 15, 2007 at 9:02 am

  It’s unethical. Plain and simple. However, I don’t agree with Google News excluding single author news sources. Google has plenty of resources. Why not give single author sites an opportunity? The decision should be based on merit not something as arbitrary as number of authors.

  

• 4 Justin Francis // Dec 24, 2007 at 7:29 am

  It’s not unethical if you’re making a satirical blog. It becomes unethical when you’re trying to decieve on a serious level or for serious motives.

  

• 5 Justin Francis // Dec 24, 2007 at 7:30 am

  For example, I do fake interviews on my blog and lots of what I say is fabricated, but it’s all a joke and anyone who falls for it is the brunt of the joke.

  

• 6 Jackie // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Wow, its like looking in a mirror LOL (look at my Blog and you will see what I mean)

  

• 7 Beth // Jan 21, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  I don’t think it’s a good idea - I don’t necessarily agree with the rule, but as Ed Eliot says, you can’t expect people to trust your writing if you lie about who you are.

  

• 8 Man from Holland // Feb 19, 2008 at 10:59 am

  I’ve had the same discussion with someone, but than about posting on a forum under more than one name ‘as publisher’ in order to get some movement. We decided not to do it. With blogging you are building something social, a connection or even a friendship. With multiple nicknames I think people will notice that they do not contain the authenticity of a dedicated blogger…

  

• 9 eenx // Feb 21, 2008 at 9:33 am

  No no, I don’t like it. Writing style of one person will always same, even they using different aliases.

  Everybody will know that the same person write with many names.

  Why not we create the real one. Let our friend to be writer but, we may edit they post if not suit with main topic.

  

• 10 santosh // Feb 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm

  It’s unethical. But, having said that, I don’t think you’ll survive if you try and become a “saint” in this world - especially on the net - where everything depends upon being up on the 1st page of google search. Others will use all the measures at hand to go up there. So, business is successfully done with brain and not heart!

  

• 11 bapes // Mar 16, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  I think it is deffinitely Unethical. I think you should always write your blogs in true self!

  

• 12 Dan - Life Coaching // Mar 31, 2008 at 4:02 am

  Well I can certainly see the reasons for wanting to… is there a more ethical way to achieve the same thing?

  

• 13 charlie tremblant // May 13, 2008 at 11:26 am

  ethical? who cares. its not murder, theft or rape. it doesn’t hurt anyone. its just seo work effectively.

  

• 14 gabriel // May 21, 2008 at 10:51 pm

  Well I don’t think it’s unethical if you say you’re gonna write under two names. Then you can expose two different point of view and different writing styles.
  What if you’re not sure about something? You can write the two sides of it under different names and see what the readers think…
  There are many reasons to do it, and I don’t think it’s unethical as long as people know of it.

  

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