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Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:26 am
by christykunjumon
Do you wonder how people are getting their author icon, profile and "More by..." links to appear in Google search results?

See the image below:
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Read more @ http://www.squidoo.com/rel-author-google-profile

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:57 am
by Mike-R
If it's possible to link up content to the author's Google+ account, it's a great bit of SEO. Really makes the page stand out in the results. Also it's not very common yet in a lot of niches.

Also, it's likely going to play an even bigger part in improving the visibility of content in the future, as this recent SEOmoz post covers:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-prepa ... -on-google

EDIT: Which was already posted here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3232&p=7063#p7063

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:25 am
by christykunjumon
Yes, Google will be giving more importance to Authorship, as this increases trust and visibility of content. Soon or later as mentioned in the , Google will slowly roll out the "AuthorRank" or also known as “", by this Google will be easily able to identify the people or author who are providing good quality content and thus finally giving a rank to these people.


Full Google "Agent Rank" patent @ http://www.google.com/patents?id=MJWZAA ... &q&f=false

I have tested this out in my blog & the screenshot provided above. Easy to implement in a wordpress site!

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:52 pm
by Mike-R

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:40 pm
by christykunjumon
This really works, I tested this out:

Step 1: Search

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Step 2 : After few minutes reading the post I used back button.

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This means Google is measuring time-on-site to decide whether the visitor enjoyed reading the article.
Another case:

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Thanks!

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:32 pm
by DJ
This is wonderful. When can we expect to see this on the www.techwyse.com/blog site?

Re: Claim Authorship to Get Your Profile Picture in Google

PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:28 pm
by Mike-R
Ooh! Before I forget, Yoast's WP SEO plugin does authorship markup! http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/ and http://yoast.com/wordpress/ for the download page.

(I'm a big fan of Yoast's SEO plugin.)