{"id":262,"date":"2011-09-09T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T03:22:02","slug":"goodle-authorship-and-relauth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.depannone.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Google Authorship and rel=auth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have been battling with getting my websites and blog set up so that authorship of the blog and website pages points to me Google+ profile which in turn creates some proof of ownership of my website and blog because of the link. A side effect is that when you search Google for something and I happen to have written something about it (or if in fact you are searching for me website via Google) a little picture of my mug will come up next to the search result – which I recon is kind of cool.<\/p>\n

I had some problems getting the blog set up. The two major problems I had were:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Understanding the significance\/difference between rel=author<\/strong> tag and rel=me<\/strong> tag.<\/li>\n
  2. Making sure the web-link in my profile were available to be viewed by anyone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what were the lessons learned I hear you say?<\/p>\n

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    1. The rel = author<\/strong> tag basically tells Google search engine that the page with this tag in it is a very important page and (in the case of a wordpress blog) to look at the page with that tag to then look for the html tag rel = me<\/strong>.\u00a0 In turn, the rel=me<\/strong> tag points the search engine to my Google profile which as a result “connects” my blog to my Google+ profile. I guess a parallel are some of the sites that allow you to “claim” website as your, e.g. claimID.com or the Verisign VIP service (via OpenID)<\/li>\n
    2. One of the steps in the process is to make sure that your Google+ profile has a website link that points to your website (or blog) that you linking to your Google+ profile from, ie, the website that you have just added the rel=author or rel=me tags (or both) on.\u00a0 Just make sure that the links on your Google+ page are available to be viewed by everyone, not just those in your circles (like I did).\u00a0 If you restrict visibility to only those in your circle you will not obtain the full benefit of Google Authorship.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      There are a few sites to look at about all this.\u00a0 The main ones I used for my WordPress blogs were:-<\/p>\n

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      1. Google site about it all – http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=1408986<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. and most importantly, in relation to WordPress blog – http:\/\/www.ryantmalone.com\/seo\/google-authorship-markup-verification-tutorial-for-bloggers\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        These two sites should get you on yor merry way.<\/p>\n

        Enjoy your head next to search results with your site in it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Have been battling with getting my websites and blog set up so that authorship of the blog and website pages points to me Google+ profile which in turn creates some proof of ownership of my website and blog because of the link. A side effect is that when you search Google for something and I … <\/p>\n

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