As others, I am saddened by the recent Google update and drop in traffic,(luckily I have my eggs in different baskets) but what really ticks me off is that articles written recently (like a month ago!) by the average Joe and clearly copied from mine are outranking me! What I noticed is that when I look at the Google search results for certain keywords, many articles that outrank mine have the author's pictures next to the article along with their name. I am assuming Google likes this even though when you click on the picture or author's name little or no credentials are listed. I was wondering if there is a way for us to add our pictures next to the search results along with our name? Also, many have a note about having a total amount of followers in their 'Google circles" is there a way we can have as well a note about being involved in Google circles, and if so, how do we do this? Just trying to figure out what Google is looking for lately.
Are you referring to google authorship?
That's what it sounds like to me at least.
Funny how spammers with a Gmail account and Google Authorship - plus a picture of someone else - are plagiarising content and ranking higher.
Another genius idea from Google.
Now seriously. Do you want a company that sells secrets to the US government to have your profile picture? At what point do you stop and think - how much information do they really need?
I have Google Authorship but they don't like my profile pic. Tough. That's the limit for me of playing their game.
Everything you mentioned can be done for any Hubber. You are talking about Google Authorship. You need to start with completing your Google profile. You already have a Google account if you are using AdSense or gmail email.
You need to have a real head shot of yourself in our Google profile.
Then include a link to your Google profile in the Google URL field in your HUbPages profile. HP will create the appropriate link to Google with "rel=me" in the link. But you don't need to be concerned about that when claiming authorship for your hubs. HP made this step easy.
Next, you need to place a reciprocal link in your Google profile pointing back to your HP profile.
If you do all that correctly you will have Authorship established. Google still decides if they place you image in the SERP listings. But it usually works out if you have a real image.
Your extra info about how many people have you in their circles will also be included if you are active with Google Plus and are getting followers.
If you want to understand the entire process, I wrote a hub detailing Google Authorship for HP and other platforms.
Alexadry, if you are interested in Google authorship, you might find this hub helpful:
http://yougotme.hubpages.com/hub/Google … rch-Engine
Thanks all, for explaining this to me. OK, so that's what it is! I have a picture on my Google profile, but it's me surrounded by my doggies, I guess Google doesn't like that because it's not a head shot. Will try to fix that. I am not that active on Google +, guess I will need to be more active there as well!
Just so you know, I got my Google authorship set up about a month ago, but Google has yet to decide to actually show my photo next to my results in searches. I hear it can really vary as to how fast it shows up, and can randomly come down and then go back up. Yet another mysterious quirk of Google's.
Hmm... I changed my picture yesterday and used a head shot. I have yet to see the picture next to my search results. It did say that it may take a while to show, but wow a month seems like a lot of time! I wonder why.. I tested mine in a special "tester" service and it showed that it works, but then when I search it's no where to find. Anyhow, if anybody wants to join my circle, please do and I will make sure I follow you too!
Never heard of this. I'm shy and have no photos of me .... I don't want my face plastered on the Internet..... bummer
Google said it takes time. I've heard many people waiting over a month until it is up which sucks. I'm not sure I did if I did it right or wrong. The tester confuses me too :$
by John Coviello 11 years ago
Lately, I've noticed some Hubbers Have Their Picture along side Google Search Results for their Hubs. How is this done? Seems like it may be helpful to entice people to click on a Hub link in Google.
by chrissieklinger 12 years ago
I write for IBM Midsize Insider and all of us recently established Google authorship which puts our picture next to our articles anytime they show up on a Google search. Is there anyway to link Google authorship with our HP articles?https://plus.google.com/authorshipThe above link gives some...
by Tony Lawrence 13 years ago
Where are we on this?I see Google has added a new way to verify authors: http://www.google.com/support/webmaster … er=1408986That would seem to make things easier, though we would have to go back and edit hubs unless HP would provide a way to do this automatically if we wanted to (and...
by Tony Lawrence 13 years ago
Today, for the very first time, I did a Google search and found one of my pages on page one with - wait for it - with my smiling face sitting beside it!I have NEVER seen this before except famous people so this really surprised me. As I am about as insignificant as you can get in the...
by Kristin Trapp 12 years ago
A few weeks ago there was an issue with the wrong Google Authorship photos appearing in SERPs (i.e. Marcy's avatar showed up in the snippet for melbel's Hub). It seems to me, that ever since that issue was resolved, no Google Authorship photos show up any longer for any Hubbers. My authorship is...
by Glenn Stok 13 years ago
It's great that HubPages automatically includes rel=author on all our hubs pointing to out profile. But Google gives me an error message stating that my HP profile page has rel=author pointing to itself. This is not correct and needs to be removed in the profile. Profiles should not have...
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