Why Did Google Stop Including Author Pictures In Search Results?
Did you know that Google no longer includes an Author's picture besides an article listed in its search results? Does anyone know why?
Yes, they did away with that fairly recently. I don't know all the reasons why, as there is a lot of speculation. One of the most likely reasons is that they instituted it in the hopes of drawing a lot more people into Google+ as an incentive when they were trying to push that. Other sites say simply it wasn't working as they had envisioned and only the really tech savvy and larger organizations were using it etc. Who knows? I do know I liked that feature and found it to be potentially helpful. As with all things Google they change so much it's impossible to keep up. I focus more on social media now and less on the big G. I've had enough lol.
Most of the people are now using a mobile device to search. A picture takes lots of space so Google has decided to do away with the display of profile picture sometime in June. The official word is - they want to offer "better mobile experience and a more consistent design across devices"
You can see John Mueller (of Google) post https://plus.google.com/113006028898915 … DkPdPtjL6j
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 Melanie Palen 11 years ago
When I did a Google search for one of my hubs, a different hubber's authorship is showing up attached to my hubs.I know this same thing is happening to another hubber as well... the same hubber's authorship (Marcy) is showing up in Google search for the authorship.Here's a pic of the...
by Sandra Greaney 10 years ago
How is it you can get your hub on the first page of Google results but not Bing or Yahoo?
by NotPC 11 years ago
I have been experimenting with Google to find new techniques to drive more search traffic and I found one that is quite silly but has doubled my traffic within about a week of updating my hub.Here it is: THE RATING CAPSULEIt's really quite silly, but I added a rating capsule to the bottom of my...
by Ness 11 years ago
Why do some hubbers have their photos in the Google search results?Often when searching on Google a hub is in the search results. Sometimes the hubbers profile picture is in the search results. Why does this happen for some hubbers and not others?
by Adrienne Farricelli CPDT-KA, Dip.CBST 10 years ago
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...
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