Google Authorship is a must for bloggers that want to be found on the Internet. Here's a simple, step-by-step guide for the installation process

1. How to Install
Google
Authorship on
WordPress
Simple, easy-to-follow instructions

2. Google Authorship has its
benefits
 The author’s Google Plus profile photo
appears on Google search engine result
pages with every blog post
 Attracting more visitors to the Google
Author’s rich snippet
 Significantly increasing their click through
rate
 Driving more traffic to their website

3. Google Plus
Account
Where the installation begins

4. Create your Google Plus
Account
 Then, go to your Profile page
 Click on the About tab
 Scroll down until you spot the Links section
of your About page
 Click Edit

6. Until you reach Contributor to…
Add custom link and insert the
name of your website and the URL
Click on
Continue to scroll
down

7. Contact Information Section
 Go to the Contact Information section of your
Google Plus About Page- located in the left hand
column next to the Contributor to section
 Click on Edit
 Under Work, insert the email address associated
with your website or blog next to the empty box (on
my Google Plus page illustrated above, its next to
Phone).
 Next, open the drop-down menu under Phone and
change the label to Email. Click save. You will be
returned to the Contact information section.
 Please look for the word, verify, next to your email
address. Click on verify and follow the instructions to
complete the verification process. Email verification
must be successfully completed to install Google
Authorship on your WordPress Website

8. Located in the left hand column
Insert the email address
associated with your website
Click Edit
Contact Information
Section

9. Go to your
WordPress
Website
Please follow these instructions

10. Go to the Administrator
Dashboard
 Click on Users

11. Click on your User Profile
Find your User Profile and click on your User Name, which
will open up Edit. Click on Edit

12. Edit User Profile
 Insert the Email address associated with your
website (domain)
 Insert your Google Plus Profile-About page URL.
You’ll find the URL by returning to your Google plus
Profile ABOUT page
 The URL is found in your browser window- it looks
like
this…https://plus.google.com/1027211132985821
64662/about

13. Continue Editing User Profile
 Insert biographical information in
the content box in About
Yourself section
 IMPORTANT- The following
language must be inserted in
your biographical information
content box…Connect with
Larry on <a
href=”https://plus.google.com/
u/0/102721113298582164662?r
el=author”>google+</a>.

14. Verification
How to confirm a successful installation

15. Confirm Email Verification
Google Plus email verification link

16. Confirm Successful Installation
Click on this link to Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool

17. Google About Author Box

18. Google Authorship Rich Snippet for
this blog post- Google One

19. Don’t Delay
 Contact Inbound Marketing for Lawyers
today for a FREE consultation
 Larry is thrilled to answer any questions to
help you become an extraordinary blogger
 www.inboundmarketingforlawyers.com
 800-2549-5048
 larry@inboundmfl.com or
 lawrence.berezin@gmail.com