http://joannavaiou.com | Google Authorship Markup, you've all heard of it if you follow SEO and Google's developments. Still wondering how to apply and enable the google authorship tag? Setting it up for your own website should be the easier part. After that, you will have to contact all the external websites where you already have submitted contnet and kindly ask them to include your rel author tag in your author bio. Read why it is so important to acquire and how to get it. Author Rank will be soon a massive Google Rankings Factor and setting up Google Authorship MarkUp for your authored content is the best you can do right now to start building your authority and credibility. Optimize your overall web presence and enjoy the advantages of doing so :).

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2. Google Authorship MarkUp
• What is it
• Why You Need it
• How to Enable it

3. 1. What is it

4. Google Authorship is an integrated feature of
Google+ Social Network.
It verifies you as the content author of your
published posts over the web.
It helps define your overall authority and
relevance in your niche.

5. 2. Why You Need it

6. 1. It makes your posts stand out in Google’s
search engine results.

7. G+ Profile # of People that have
Link you in their G+ Circles..
Headshot Pic

8. 2. Increases the Click Through Rate for your
results as they are more visual, appealing and
entertaining to attract the Click.

9. 3. Protects your authorship to your content in
case it is stolen and does not give real author
attribution.

10. 3. How to Enable it

11. 1. In your About page on your Google +
profile, add the home page of the website/blog
you have contributed to at the “Contributor to”
section (edit it).

12. 2. At the end of all the posts you have
contributed, include a by “Your Full Name”
signature.
Link your full name to your Google+ Profile like
this:
https://plus.google.com/whatever-your-
g+number-id-is/?rel=author
Make sure your full name is exactly the same as
it is on your G+ profile.

13. 3. Upload a recognizable, high resolution, nice
headshot picture of yourself on your Google+
profile. This will appear on the search results.

14. 4. Test how it shows. Go to
Google’s Structure data Testing Tool and paste
your published post’s URL :
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richs
nippets , hit the red button! (Means “Preview”)

15. It has been tested that Google Authorship
MarkUp increases your Click Through Rate by
30-150%.
Apart from that, it is building your
credibility, authority and relevance that will
result in you getting higher rankings on Google…

17. Happy Verifying!
Clicking on the Google+ Icon Above will take you to my
Google+ profile. Let’s Connect on Giant Google+!

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