How to Verify Google Authorship Google Authorship for Content

Verify Google Authorship

In this article we will teach you how to Verify Google Authorship for your content As now a days people want more and more from their online business as Heuristic told us that already used or experienced methods will give us more success then the others. Today i am going to show you how can you enhance the search appearance of your website or Blog by verifying your Google authorship, as Google is continuingly changing his algorithms in order to enhance the search efficiency and the customer’s experience, Recently Google has added a new feature of displaying Authorship with search results Let us take an example.

One more thing to consider is that Google is now aviating the information about the author in its search results in order to help users to discover the great content over the web. For now we will let you know how you can Verify Google Authorship for your website As shown in Example With Those Articles Who have verified Author Google Automatically add the name and Image of the author, The articles with verified Author enhances the experience of Search and It is also proved that this increases click through rates and better appearance in search engines(Google, Bing ,Yahoo, Altavista etc..).

Here shown a example of our website Elightener.com, Mustafa Jamal is the verified author of this website and for now when the URL of this website appears in search results it shows a small size profile picture with the name of our Verified Author Mustafa Jamal. Once you verify your Authorship information this information will be shown in Google’s web search with URL of your page or post ,Title and meta description.

Steps to Verify Google authorship

Option 1:

Note: I will Suggest you to go for option 2 if you have not an email address related to the Domain.

Directly Link your content with your Google+ Profile using a verified Email Address.

1.  Make sure that you have a email address on the same domain (Ex: , info@Elightener.com) and your content also lies on the same domain             (Elightener.com).
2. After that make it sure that you have a clearly described By line (EX: , “Posted By: Mustafa Jamal” or “Author: Mustafa Jamal” or “By Mustafa Jamal”).
3. Once you have passed the upper steps visit  Authorship Page and add your Email address in the field in order to submit it to Google this doesn’t matter how much content you publish on your website or how long you would carry on publishing content on it, you have to do this procedure just once after that Google automatically reads the author name with each post/Page(As Shown in the Image Below).

4.  Enter Email in the field and Click on Sign up for Authorship button after this Google will send you Verification Email Follow the Instructions in that email in order to verify Authorship for your domain.

5.  Once you Have followed all steps use the Google Structured data testing tool  to check what data Google has fetched from your domain.

Another Option to Verify Google authorship :

Option 2:

Option 2 said that Verify your Authorship by Linking your Content with Google+ Profile.

1. Link Your Content with Google+ profile directly by Placing Hyperlink of your Google+ Profile .
2. Place this piece of code inside the head section of your header.php file (Don’t forget to change the URL to your Google+ Profile URL ).

          1:  <a href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202?rel=author">Google</a>  

3.  Give some time to Google to re crawl your website and extract the author’s information from the page.

4.  Use Google Structured data testing tool  to test What data Google has fetched from your website.

Thing you must take care of :

In the whole procedure above you must have to take care of these couple of things.

1. Make sure You have same name in your WordPress account as in your Google+ account.
2. Make it sure that your +1′s are Public in Google+ Profile.

For now You have all done!

In order to Testify whether Authorship have done Successfully or not? Use Rich Snippets Testing Tool   To check the status whether you successful in  verify Google authorship or not?

If you got stacked in doing this you are free to share your problem with us in the Comment Section Below.

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