Google expects the profile replacement option to be ready for all Blogger publishers through the main Blogger site "in the coming weeks."

Google officials, from CEO Larry Page on down, have made it very clear that Google+ isn't meant to be just a stand-alone social networking site, but rather a unifying service that ties Google products together and adds social components to them.

As such, the expectations for Google+ within the company are extremely high already, although it's a fairly new product launched in limited beta in June and to the general public about a month ago. It recently topped 40 million members, according to the company.

However, it's unclear whether the Google+ real names requirement will deter a significant number of users from linking their various Google accounts with Google+ because they may not want their real identity associated with some or all of those services, such as YouTube and Gmail.

For this reason, it will be interesting to see how Blogger publishers respond to this new option of slapping their Google+ "real" identity on the blogs they publish.