How to Implement Google Authorship in Your WordPress Blog?

Everyone is talking about Google authorship these days, especially the bloggers. Why? And how can you get Google authorship for your WordPress sites too?

Here are the reasons why should you get Google authorship and also few simple steps to implement in order to get Google authorship for your blogs.

Why should be worrying about getting Google Authorship?

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Google authorship will not only boost your online visibility but it also increases

Social proof (that can visually impact more on your blogs)Image in the rich snippets can bring you more CTR’s

Lets have two samples here:

Without Google authorship (for the keyword – landing page tips)

With Google authorship (for the same result – landing page tips)

Now.. which one do you more likely to open?

If I’m not wrong, it would be surely the one with Google authorship (smiley face on the rich snippet).

Why?

Because it improves the social proof, visual images can build instant trust on Google – thus Google bringing your more traffic to your blog posts.

I hope now you understood the importance of having Google authorship for your WordPress blogs.

Lets get into the details then..

Here’s what you need to do:

You need to link your blog’s content to your Google+ ProfileYou must have to embed “rel=author” in your WordPress account

Step 1: add a link to your Google+ profile

Open your Google+ profile page > edit

Now.. scroll down and link to your site in the “Contributor to” section.

Step 2: Paste the code into your WordPress site

Here I’ll be showing you 3 options (Thesis, Genesis or remaining theme users)

Whoever using Thesis theme on their blogs – getting Google authorship is bit easy!

Here’s how to get Google authorship for thesis users.

Use Google Authorship WP plugin for Thesis: This is the easiest way of getting Google authorship for Thesis users. Simply download this plugin and follow these steps.

Make sure you’ve “Show author name in post byline” and “Link author name to archive” selected under Thesis Design Options > Display Options > BylinesAdd your Google+ profile link to your profile informationAdd a link to your author archive to your Google+ profile, in either your “other profiles” or “contributor to” sections

Or if you don’t want to use any plugin for this, you can simply do this in two easy steps:

Log into your dashboard, go to

Thesis > Site options > Document Head > Additional Scripts

Now paste this:

Replace ‘XXXXXXX’ with your Google+ unique number

Log into your dashboard, go to

Genesis > Theme Settings > Header and Footer Scripts

Now.. paste this

Replace ‘XXXXXXX’ with your Google+ unique number

If you’re using a simple theme (or any theme other than Thesis or Genesis).. follow this steps to get Google authorship for your WordPress site.

Open functions.php or custom_functions.phpNow paste the following

Insert your Google+ profile page id in place of XXXXXX

add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘add_google_rel_author’);
function add_google_rel_author() {
echo ”;
}

Credit: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-googles-verified-authorship-for-your-wordpress-blog/

Final step: Replace all the XXXX’s with your Google+ page unique number > Save it

How to verify that you’ve got Google authorship in your WordPress blog?

You’re done!

Note: Wait for few days to let Google bots crawl all these new added information. Generally it takes anywhere around 4 to 5 days, you’re lucky if you get it faster than this.

Let me know if you’ve any difficulties in getting Google authorship for your blogs. I’ll be glad to help you!

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