Saturday, 24 August 2013

Converting a suspended Google+ profile to a Page, without affecting YouTube name?

Converting a suspended Google+ profile to a Page, without affecting
YouTube name?

A year ago I created this YouTube user called CmisSync CMIS Synchronizer
and uploaded some video tutorials about my product called "CmisSync".
Somehow I also got an associated Google+ account with the same name
CmisSync CMIS Synchronizer.
Unfortunately, the Google+ account recently got disabled:

Apparently I should have created a Google+ Page instead, as product names
are not accepted as Google+ profile names.
Fair enough, my bad, then let's destroy my profile and create a Page
instead, I thought.
So I click Take action, a popup appears:







Looks good, what I want is Create a Google+ Page, so I click on it and get:







PROBLEM:
In the screenshot above I am told that I need to provide a person name,
and this name will be used for all associated products, including YouTube
as explained by the Learn more link.
I don't want the YouTube user to have the name of a real person, as it is
about a product.
QUESTION:
Should I give my real name in the dialog above, then I will be able to
change the YouTube-visible name back to the name of the product?
Should I abandon this Google+ profile, and create a different new Google+
page for the product, from scratch, separate from the YouTube account? No
drawback doing this?
Any better alternative?

No comments:

Post a Comment