Just a few months ago (late July 2014), we heard about the disappearance of the Authorship head shot. Now, the news has broken that Google has killed Authorship. Not changed it in another way.
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 past several months. In his talk, he mentioned upcoming improvements to authorship results. A couple months later in December, Google confirmed it had…
The last Earned track of the day was Author Rank: Getting the Credit You Deserve, presented by Eric Enge, CEO, Stone Temple Consulting, and Shari Thurow, Founder & SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive.
Last month, an excerpt from Eric Schmidt’s forthcoming book came out where he discussed how identity and authorship might be used to better rank search results. Since then, I’ve seen that widely cited as proof Google is already doing “Author Rank.” It’s not, nor was… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article