Google authorship

A good position of your blog in search engines is essential for your success as a blogger. Google is the dominating one in search engine market at present. So it is very important to hold a good position of your blog in Google search result. The most important method to hold a good position in Google result is, forget about the search engine and concentrate on to create good, useful content in your blog. You can also use Google webmaster tool to register your blog and customize how it will look on Google search result. Google can display author picture with your site on their search result. This is called Google authorship.

Google is piloting the display of author information in search results to help users discover great content.

There are two methods to set up Google authorship for your blog. One is through email id of your domain and the other one is create a Google+ profile and connect with your blog. Here I am talking about the second method. Because I am using wordpress.com as my host so I am not having email id in my domain, so I have used the second method.

Create a Google+ profile.
Place a link of your Google+ profile to your blog.
```
<a href="https://plus.google.com/[your profile id]?rel=author">Google</a>
```
Do not forget the rel=author portion.
Add your blog link to your Google+ profile (at the Contributor To section of your Google+ profile).

To test the setup you can go to Google structured data testing tool and give your blog address. If all goes well you can see your Google+ profile picture at the search result of this testing tool. To see your picture in actual Google search result you have wait until Google recrawl your site.

Google Result

For more information you can take a look at the Google authorship section.

19 thoughts on “Google authorship”

ningauble June 17, 2013 at 12:03 AM

I’m amazed how you guys just skip what is vital and informative and write about what does not matter at all.

So, HOW DO WE PLACE A GODDAMN LINK ON OUR BLOGS THAT ARE HOSTED ON WP.COM?!?!

Thanks!

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorJune 17, 2013 at 7:49 PM

You can place your link at your blogroll. Please take a look at this link http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/

LikeLike

Reply ↓
1. stupidamigo August 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM
  
  Adding a link in the blogroll allows us only to add the “web address”, but for the authorship to work we need to add “rel=author” as well.
  How to do that, please explain!
  
  LikeLike

Shivya July 1, 2013 at 9:26 PM

Thanks for a comprehensive post! How long does it take for the result to show on Google search? As per the testing tool, my authorship feature is working.

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorJuly 1, 2013 at 11:29 PM

It takes 3/4 days as my experience. Let Google recrawl your site to show your authorship at their search result.

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorJuly 1, 2013 at 11:49 PM

@Shivya, you have a nice looks on Google’s search result. I have some thing to learn from you, how you customise the appearance on Google’s page?

LikeLike

Reply ↓

ichristsai September 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM

Reblogged this on Chris Tsai and commented:
About how to support Google Authorship for your blogs.

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Pingback: Connect WordPress blog with Google+ profile | Arnab Roy Chowdhury

Soumya Vinod November 20, 2013 at 12:29 AM

Is this working now??
I have done the steps as mentioned, and not able get the result, then I checked this blog link on Structured Data Testing Tool; and coudn’t find the author pic. Is there any change google authorship for wordpress.com blog?

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorNovember 23, 2013 at 9:42 AM

This procedure is still working now. You can read the original article on Google’s page https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?hl=en&expand=2&hl=en. I can see your authorship is working nicely from ‘Google Structured Data Testing Tool’. It is showing your author picture with your article link at the Google’s search result page. Can you please check now?

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Burt Phoenix April 14, 2014 at 10:56 PM

Thanks a ton. I was trying to get it working for a few weeks and with the help of your post could establish authorship for my blog in a minute. However I am unable to get authorship info for my main URL ie for http://standupforacause.wordpress.com How do I enable authorship for this page?

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Pingback: Google Plus and Your Blog | Arnab Roy Chowdhury

agadir excursions August 5, 2014 at 5:16 PM

helped , thanks

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorAugust 10, 2014 at 10:17 AM

stupidamigo – You can place your Google+ link with ‘rel=author’ at blogroll. Just add this to your ‘add new link’ section of your blog admin section. Hope it will work for you.

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Susana Gonzalez Ruiz August 13, 2014 at 11:25 PM

Hi Arnab, I did all you explain here (Google+ link in my blog and blog link in my Google+ profile), but the Testing Tool cannot verify the authorship. Perhaps it takes some time? My blog is http://sugoru.wordpress.com . Do you see if I made something wrong? Thanks!

LikeLike

Reply ↓

Arnab Roy Chowdhury Post authorAugust 14, 2014 at 9:06 AM

I investigate your blog and I think you have missed the ‘rel=author’ portion at the end of your Google+ link. Please fix that. You can test your authorship at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets. It will take more than a week to show at actual Google search page.

LikeLike

Reply ↓
1. Susana Gonzalez Ruiz August 14, 2014 at 11:37 AM
  
  You’re right, I had added the ‘rel=author’ on the blogroll link, but I had forgotten the social link that appears at the bottom of my blog. Thanks!
  
  LikeLike

Susana Gonzalez Ruiz August 29, 2014 at 6:19 PM

Hi Arnab, did you saw this update of John Mueller? “We’ve made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results” https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8

LikeLike

Reply ↓