Google Authorship is a way for content authors to connect their Google profiles to their online content to establish original ownership, and the benefits for the author can be immense. Since authorship and all the various microformat markups appeared, it is one of the things that we really push at Copynight.org for all of our Copynight Raleigh Triangle search engine optimization campaigns.

Google Authorship could be one of the most significant SEO factors to help improve rankings since the Hummingbird update back in September 2013. Do you know what it is and have you started taking advantage of it?

We’re personally seeing noticeably fewer images lately appearing next to SERP listings than we did a few months ago.  The smiling faces next to some results have often brought increased attention to those entries – even if they WERE at the bottom of a page, but with minimizing returns on this… Who knows.

Our opinion?  Until you throw the ball, you just don’t know if it’s going to be a strike or not.  They may appear for your listing or they may not.Those rich snippets will never appear though if you don’t take a few minutes to set them up to begin with!

What Is it?

Google Authorship is a way for content authors to connect their Google profiles to their online content to establish original ownership. For Google’s official explanation and directions on how to implement it, see here.

To casual Web searchers the end result is an enhanced “rich snippet” which shows the author’s profile picture as well as the number of Google + circles that include the author. For the searcher, this provides a quick tool to assess the author’s relative authority. To the author, the benefits can be so much more.

How to Make it Happen?

Google Authorship and SEO – ClickZ

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Google Authorship and SEOClickZTo casual Web searchers the end result is an enhanced “rich snippet” which shows the author’s profile picture as well as the number of Google circles that include the author. For the searcher, this provides a quick to …

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