Google Removes Webmaster Tools Author Stats Reports
Starting last December Google Webmaster Tools included a “labs” prototype feature that displayed rudimentary analytics for any indexed results on the web that were connected to your Google verified...
View ArticleGoogle Rich Snippets & Authorship: A Video Panel Discussion
Join Virante’s +Mark Traphagen with co-guest panelists +AJ Kohn and +Bill Slawski for a Google+ Hangout On Air discussion of Rich Snippet search results and Google Authorship / Author Rank. The show...
View ArticleGoogle Authorship Emails: Guarantee of Author Rich Snippet?
If you have attempted to set up Google Authorship for your online content (here’s how), you may have received a “Welcome to Google Authorship” email from Google that looks something like this: Google...
View Articlerel=author or rel=publisher: Which Should I Use?
Among the most frequently-asked questions we get at the Google Authorship and Author Rank Community on Google+ are those concerning the usage of rel=authorship and rel=publisher connections. Or to put...
View ArticleGoogle Answers Questions About Google Authorship
It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth (that’s Google with the saddle on over there, by the way). That...
View ArticleGoogle Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet): John Mueller
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship is not a factor in ranking search...
View ArticleMatt Cutts at Pubcon 2013: Authorship, Authority and the Future of Search
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing intriguing hints that he had spoken about some...
View ArticleGoogle Author Rank: On? Not Yet? Why I Don’t Care
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced...
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