subject: How To Implement Google Authorship To Your Blog? [print this page] With Google gradually displaying on its search results the profile pictures and bylines of authors or publishers, Google's authorship tag has become a great SEO services tool for authority as an author, as well as makes it easy for visitors to find your other articles that are scattered on the web and get to know you.
Introduced in the middle of last year, Google Authorship, according to SEO experts, is not only a very powerful leveraging tool for SEO in establishing brands, authority, credibility and trust but also is a very profitable tool in increasing clicks through rates.
Google Authorship displays not only the authors profile picture but also the authors clickable byline name which is linked to the authors Google+ profile, circle count on Google+ and a more by + authors name link which when clicked will bring you to a SERP that displays all the articles written by that author. These value-added features make Google Authorship a very profitable and powerful tool in terms of building personal brand, credibility or authority as well as increasing click through rate. Google Authorship also has made it easy for authors to centralize all of their articles that are scattered across the internet into one place.
For internet users, Google Authorship adds to a much greater user-experience as it now makes it easier for searchers to find articles of a particular author in one place as well as be assured that the content is of great quality as Google Authorship helps Google, in return, determine the name of the author of the content and verify them as well as enables them to be informed that the content is an authored link by a verifiable human who they have data about; thereby, enabling them as well to change the weighting of links according to the AuthorRank of the author who placed the link. This will in turn make the content be highly ranked by Google in its search result as Google Authorship is considered by Google as a sign of an authors authority and credibility which, as we know, are two of the SEO ranking factors.
So, here are the steps for implementing Google Authorship in your blog:
1.Create Google+ account. If you want to be listed as an author in Google search results, you must register for a free account or upgrade your current Google account by uploading a clear high-quality headshot of yourself for your profile photo. Make sure to do this as your photo from your Google+ profile is what Google will display for the authorship Rich Snippets in its Google results alongside your content.
2.Fill Out Contributor Section (Click Custom Link). Make sure to completely fill out the contributor list in your Google+ profile. Just simply list the names and complete URLs of the blogs/websites for which you have written contents in the Contributor section of your profile called Contributor to.
3.Add Author Tag. Next, add your author tag to each of your articles which consists of a link to your Google+ profile URL with "?rel=author" added to it. It would look like this:
