How-to-Implement-Google-Authorship | Step-to-Step Guide

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How to Implement

Google Authorship

• What is Google Authorship ?• Why You Need it ?• How to Implement it to your blog/site ?

What is Authorship ?

Google Authorship

Google Authorship is an integrated feature of Google+ Social Network used for all other Google Services.

It helps define your overall author reputation and relevance in your respective niche.

It verifies you as the content author of your published posts over the web.

Google Authorship

Why You Need it ?

Google Authorship

It makes your posts stand out in Google’s search Engine results.

It gives a trust factor (snippet view) for someone searching for useful information.

Google Authorship

G+ Profile Link

# of People that have you in their G+ Circles..

Headshot Pic

Increases the Click Through Rate for your results as they are more visual, appealing and

entertaining to attract the Click.

Google Authorship

Maintains your authorship to your content in case it is stolen and does not give real author

attribution.

Google Authorship

How to Enable it ?

Google Authorship

In the About page of your Google+ profile, add the home page of the website/blog you have contributed to in the “Contributor to” section. Click Edit to open the panel.

Google Authorship

Include your Full Name in the end of the post, blog, or the webpage you have contributed to.

Link your full name to your Google+ Profile like this:<a href=“https://plus.google.com/your g+ id no.” “rel=author”>+Anikait Chavan</a>

Make sure your Full Name is exactly the same as it is on your G+ profile.

Use a high resolution, nice recognizable headshot picture of yourself on your Google+ profile. This will

appear on the search results.

4. Test how it shows. Go toGoogle’s Structure data Testing Tool and Paste your published post’s URL :

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets hit the red button! (Means “Preview”)

It has been tested that Google Authorship increases your Click Through Rate by

30 -150%.

Apart from that, it is building your credibility, authority and relevance that will result in you getting higher rankings on Google…

It will show up on your blog / site

Congrats! You have a verified authorship now !!

Click on the icon above to connect with me !!

I’m easy to find…

- Anikait ChavanSEO Executive

www.BrainstormForce.com