What's a Google+ page?

Profiles are for people. Pages are for everything else.

Google+ profiles are subject to Google's real-names policy. Your profile is supposed to be you, and every day Google deletes profiles that do not conform.

Google+ pages are for other online identities. That could be a business, a community group, a web page, even a brand.

A page created this blog, in the same way that a regular Google account can create blogs. (That's actually the purpose of this blog.)

There are some differences between Google+ pages and profiles:

• pages are exempt from the real-names policy
• pages can have up to 50 managers
• pages can only be set up by Google+ profiles.

However, there are no differences between pages and profiles with respect to Blogger blogs. You can do the following blog-related things with both:

• create a blog (obviously!)
• be a blog author or administrator
• automatically share blog posts to Google+ accounts that have the page in their circles
• enable Google+ comments on blogs that the page administers
• leave Google+ comments on blogs that have them enabled
• leave regular Blogger comments on blogs that have enabled that.