Google: Authorship

Google Authorship is a way to link content you create with a Google+ profile. Google provides a means to get started and more information here, and our The Definitive Guide To Google Authorship Markup guide will help you through the process.
Google has stopped using authorship completely, even for in-depth articles
Authorship is now officially and completely dead. Gary Illyes from Google said authorship is not used at all at Google...
How To Build Author Rank Without Google Authorship
Google's Authorship program may be dead, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't work on building your authority. Columnist Tony Edward...
Google: Leave Your Authorship Markup On Your Page
Google may use authorship markup in the future, even after killing it off over a year...
Authorship Is Dead; Long Live Authorship
Google's authorship program may be over, but columnist Eric Enge notes it's still important to work on building...
The Underlying B2B Marketing Value Of 4 (Previously Successful) SEO Tactics
Though SEO tactics may come and go, the underlying principles behind them often remain...
Google Authorship May Be Dead, But Author Rank Is Not
Google ended its three-year experiment with Google Authorship yesterday, but the use of Author Rank to improve search results will continue....
It’s Over: The Rise & Fall Of Google Authorship For Search Results
Anyone who follows Google knows that nothing it creates is immune from elimination. Like so many efforts before it, Authorship is fading into...
Google+ Authorship Images Live On
Search engine optimization professionals were caught off-guard back in June when Google’s John Mueller announced that the search giant...
Google Quietly Removes Author Stats From Google Webmaster Tools Labs
In December 2011, Google launched author stats within Google Webmaster Tools, giving those who used authorship across sites, statistics on how...
Google Giveth & Google Taketh Away Author Icons
Google recently announced they’d be removing a major element from their search engine results pages (SERPs) that they’ve been...
Google Removes Author Photos From Search: Why And What Does It Mean?
The search world was rocked by yesterday’s announcement by Google’s Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller that Google will be...
Google Drops Profile Photos, Google+ Circle Count From Authorship In Search Results
Google’s John Mueller has announced that Google is making a major change in the search results around authorship. Specifically, Google is...
Google Authorship Goes Down Again, Twice In One Week
Google Authorship is once again down for the count, second time within a one-week period. Authorship is the image you see next to the Google...
Google Drops Authorship Rich Snippets From Search Results. A Bug?
For the past 20 minutes, if you search anything on Google, the authorship images, where it shows a picture of the individual who wrote the...
Yes, Google Does Have & Use Author Rank; Specifically Within In-Depth Articles
Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed on stage at Search Marketing Expo today that Google does have a form of “Author Rank” in use...
Is Chasing AuthorRank A Waste Of Time For SEOs?
On June 7, 2011, Google announced support for a new type of markup called the Authorship Tag. This was the rel=”author” tag. It did...
The Secret To Staying Relevant With Authorship
At PubCon last year, Google’s Matt Cutts discussed big changes to the search results, many of which we’ve seen played out over the...
Confirmed: Google Reduces Authorship Rich Snippets In Search Results
The head of search spam at Google, Matt Cutts, has confirmed with us that Google has applied a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets...
Infographic: How To Troubleshoot Google Authorship Issues, A Step-By-Step Flowchart
In October, I spoke at SMX East about some of the opportunities and challenges when implementing Google Authorship. At about the same time, a...
Structured Data Superstars @ SMX East
Structured data has become a hot topic over the past year or so, and at SMX East, the room was packed for the Structured Data Superstars...