Monday, March 18, 2013

Get Google's Verified Authorship For Your Guest Posts

Author: Gagan Masoun
Get Google's Verified Authorship For Your Guest PostsGoogle AuthorRank is most important part of your blogging carrier now. If you're allowing guest post on your blogs then you should read this article carefully. For your kind information Guest blogging is not a waste of time, but you should follow the guidelines of Google about guest blogging.

Today, in this article I will tell you "How to Get Google's Verified Authorship For Your Guest Posts" that you have been published on other blogs. If you don't have GA for your personal blog or website then get verified Google Authorship for your own blog by using one of the following ways:
If you wish to verify your GA for your distributed content across the web Google make it even easier to verify GA on the guest posts you write just by tracing the email id of the author and then search that email id within the contributor’s section in the G+ profile.

Google Authorship For Your Guest Posts

To get approve your GA on your guest posts just follow these steps:

Always use rel=”author” on each blog post when you say “By [author name]” and in the author bio section. Give Google+ link to author's profile in author bio. You can see example here:
<a href=”https://plus.google.com/(Profile ID)?rel=”author”>Google+</a>
1. Login to Google+ > View Profile > Edit Profile
  • Edit the Contributor To section in your Google+ profile
  • Click Add custom link, from the dialog box that appears, and then enter the Guest post URL there
  • Click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.
  • Hit "Save" button and it's done.
Contributor To Section - Google+

Last but not least, to ensure that is your authorship is now verified or not. Use Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool.

Live Example Here:

Last month I wrote article for Core Blogging (Owner: Gireesh Sundaram) blog. You can check my author bio which I mentioned in guest post here. And also check my Google+ profile's "Contributor to" section here. You'll see www.coreblogging.in link there. Finally, check Rich Snippets tool report, you'll see my Google+ profile information in Google search results. There are only 3 main steps to get "Google's verified authorship for your guest posts". So, I hope you better understand now.

Structured Data Testing Tool

If still you're confused about it then write your question below in the comment box. I will reply as soon as possible. Stay Blessed and Happy Blogging. "Peace" :)

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for attaching the image on my blog on this post :p

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