google authorship

Google Removes Author Photos From Search: Why And What Does It Mean?

The search world was rocked by yesterday’s announcement by Google’s Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller that Google will be...

Mark Traphagen | Jun 26, 2014 at 5:07 pm ET

Google Authorship is once again down for the count, second time within a one-week period. Authorship is the image you see next to the Google...

Barry Schwartz | May 29, 2014 at 4:10 pm ET

Google’s Matt Cutts confirmed on stage at Search Marketing Expo today that Google does have a form of “Author Rank” in use...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 13, 2014 at 5:50 pm ET

At SMX East this past October, I gave a presentation titled, “Putting the SEO Power of Google+ to Work.” The centerpiece of that...

Mark Traphagen | Nov 21, 2013 at 9:20 am ET

In October, I spoke at SMX East about some of the opportunities and challenges when implementing Google Authorship. At about the same time, a...

Janet Driscoll Miller | Nov 8, 2013 at 8:45 am ET

Today at SMX East, Google’s Pierre Far told the audience Google launched a small update to authorship by adding authorship rich snippets...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 2, 2013 at 4:38 pm ET

Trying to get your head around Google authorship? The Google Webmaster Central blog has posted a new FAQ designed to provide some answers. What...

Danny Sullivan | Aug 21, 2013 at 1:53 pm ET

Many of us in SEO espouse the great benefits of Google Authorship and the potential of the rumored AuthorRank. Many in SEO would argue that...

Janet Driscoll Miller | Aug 8, 2013 at 9:05 am ET

Google has confirmed that there are current issues with displaying authorship rich snippets on “very few sites.” A Google...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 18, 2013 at 9:30 am ET

In last month’s post about authorship, I shared that Google has been experimenting with inferring authorship for PDF documents in addition...

Janet Driscoll Miller | Jun 14, 2013 at 9:43 am ET

A new video by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, talks about how potentially using rel=”author” structured data can...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 5, 2013 at 1:28 pm ET

If one theme was abundantly clear at SMX West in March, it was the question over the importance of authorship and how it might impact future...

Janet Driscoll Miller | May 16, 2013 at 10:00 am ET

Google has quietly changed the user interface for how they display the authorship snippet in the search results. The largest difference is that...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 25, 2013 at 9:37 am ET

The Enterprise SEO column made its debut on Search Engine Land midway through 2011, as large companies and big brands were faced with new...

Elisabeth Osmeloski | Dec 31, 2012 at 5:00 pm ET