{"id":81,"date":"2014-05-08T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:57:02","slug":"wordpress-google-authorship-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wordpress-google-authorship-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Google+ Authorship Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up Google + Authorship is critical for SEO. \u00a0If you provide quality unique content to the internet, you should have this setup. \u00a0It&#8217;ll help your content to rank better and will add your profile image to your search results like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FireShot-Screen-Capture-037-Google-Structured-Data-Testing-Tool-www_google_com_webmasters_tools_richsnippets_qhttp___promincproduct.png\" data-lasso-id=\"46\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-qmSoXpr0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" src=\"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FireShot-Screen-Capture-037-Google-Structured-Data-Testing-Tool-www_google_com_webmasters_tools_richsnippets_qhttp___promincproduct-300x93.png\" alt=\"Google + Authorship Face in Search Results Example\" width=\"300\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few things you need for this to work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a Google + profile<\/li>\n<li>Add a link to your Google + Profile back to your site where you publish your content<\/li>\n<li>Connect your sites content back to your Google + profile page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even going to explain how to set this up in WordPress &#8211; it&#8217;s been done already. \u00a0So simply do this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-author-information-in-search-results-wordpress-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-lasso-id=\"47\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google+ Author Information in Search Results (Free Version)<\/strong><\/a> plugin to your WordPress installation<\/li>\n<li>Once installed, go to\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Settings<\/strong> page and follow the instructions there &#8211; they walk you through too nicely for me to repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/wp-buddy\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-lasso-id=\"48\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>wp-buddy<\/strong><\/a> for providing a GREAT plugin!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>UPDATE: 2015-10-08<\/h2>\n<p>As some of you may know, in August of 2014 Google stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+JohnMueller\/posts\/HZf3KDP1Dm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"49\">they no longer use Authorship tags<\/a> and thus they could and should be removed. \u00a0Here is a nice write-up about <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/goodbye-google-authorship-201975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"50\">the life of Google Authorship tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesempost.com\/google-authorship-isnt-dead-after-all-google-recommends-including-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"51\">Gary Illyes of Google did\u00a0state that it might not be worth removing the tags<\/a>. \u00a0Not much more information was given, but worth considering leaving them if he is hinting at something larger.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Gary Illyes stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-rel-author-more-20995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"52\">if more webmasters used Authorship then they may\u00a0re-implement it<\/a>. \u00a0Sounds kind of like a chicken before the egg scenario, but just sharing what was said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up Google + Authorship is critical for SEO. \u00a0If you provide quality unique content to the internet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-development","tag-plugin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FireShot-Screen-Capture-037-Google-Structured-Data-Testing-Tool-www_google_com_webmasters_tools_richsnippets_qhttp___promincproduct.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BbcR-1j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}