Authorship is now officially and completely dead. Gary Illyes from Google said authorship is not used at all at Google anymore
Google’s Authorship program may be dead, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work on building your authority. Columnist Tony Edward explains
Google may use authorship markup in the future, even after killing it off over a year ago. The post Google: Leave Your Authorship Markup On Your Page appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
At Pubcon 2014 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to chat with Casey Markee of SearchEngineNews.com about Google Authorship. More specifically — the end of Google Authorship and what’s going to happen next. The topic of authorship and establishing authority has been a hot topic for quite some time in the SEO world
I woke up one fine June morning to discover that my familiar photo had disappeared from the search results for dozens of articles that I’d worked so hard at writing. After three years of optimizing my authorship, discussing the topic, and connecting my profile to my personal site, it seemed as if it had all vanished
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.
Google ended its three-year experiment with Google Authorship yesterday, but the use of Author Rank to improve search results will continue. Wait — you can have Author Rank without Google Authorship! And just what is Google Authorship versus Author Rank? Come along, because they are different…
Anyone who follows Google knows that nothing it creates is immune from elimination.
In December 2011, Google launched author stats within Google Webmaster Tools, giving those who used authorship across sites, statistics on how well their content did. Author stats were unique in that it would show you how many impressions and clicks your content received not on a site by site basis..
Google recently announced they’d be removing a major element from their search engine results pages (SERPs) that they’ve been featuring for the past couple of years: author icons. Since this is something we Local Marketers have enthusiastically encouraged, what does this mean for… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.