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Authorship - Step by Step

Google is piloting the display of author information in search results. The document provides steps to add author metadata to web pages by including specific tags in the <head> and <body> sections, and linking the author's Google+ profile. It also describes how authors can claim authorship of pages on their Google+ profile by adding the pages as custom links.

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Authorship - Step by Step

Google is piloting the display of author information in search results. The document provides steps to add author metadata to web pages by including specific tags in the <head> and <body> sections, and linking the author's Google+ profile. It also describes how authors can claim authorship of pages on their Google+ profile by adding the pages as custom links.

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Source: Google Webmasters Author information in search results

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

Step 1: On the <meta> section in all documents add following:


<!-- Author/Publisher --> <link rel="publisher" href="" /><!-- Company's g+ --> <link rel="author" href="?rel=author" /><!-- Owner's g+ --> <link rel="canonical" href="" /><!-- Company's g+ --> <!-- End -->

On <link rel=author>, add the owners google+ and suffix ?rel=author (without the quotes).

Step 2: (as google stated) On the <body> section, look for the appropriate content to put the hyperlink <a href=owners google+[?rel=author]>CONTENT</a> Example:

<a href=https://plus.google.com/105557080215484477251?rel=author target=_blank>Click 4 Corp </a>

The example above is Mr. Dakas personal google+ URL that contains a parameter ?rel=author. If it is missing (parameter), google won't be able to associate the content with Mr. Dakas Google+ profile. Step 3: Reciprocal Link 1. Sign in as the authors google+ profile. Go to google+. 2. Open: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?hl=en 3. Click the Contributor to Section as encircle on the image below.

4. Once clicked, the authors profile will popped this:

Click the Add Custom Link of the following: Label Company name URL Clients Live Site/Domain Then, Save it. 5. Request for publishing the site. 6. Once published, we need to test the Structure if the authorship has carried over/the update takes effect. We can accomplished this by: a. Sign in as the authors google+ profile. b. Open: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?hl=en c. Click Structured Data Testing Tool as shown below:

d. Once clicked, we can now test the data we updated for the particular clients site. Just shown below:

e. And the result will look something like this:

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