How to Troubleshoot Google Authorship Issues in an Effective Way?

Google Authorship is the brainchild of Comprar avaliações Google that allows a genuine author to link his content that has been published on a specific domain to his Google+ profile. “Google is saying… We want to make sure that you are a real human being… We want to stamp out anonymity and spam”, and yes, it is the authorship that adds authority and credibility to the content. It establishes a verified connection between contents on the web and the authors who developed the content. Google Authorship empowers Google with the ability of identifying human-created, high quality content and to distinguish it from low quality content.

Now, let us elucidate on the fact that in what way Google Authorship can benefit you?

It is an excellent way to boost your online presence in Google result pages and high visibility will definitely boost the click-through-rate and will drive more potential traffic to your authored content. So you can see that Google Authorship influences your online presence to a great extent.

To the naked eye, Google authorship is the profile picture of the author and byline that appears on the search engine result pages. It shows the author’s image (same to the profile picture of his or her Google+ account), full name and the number of Google+ circles the author belongs to.

You can easily execute the authorship functionality once you have created a Google+ account. It seems apparently quite easy, but you may encounter a number of issues, once you have created the authorship. Now, only careful troubleshooting can solve out the issues. In this article we have elucidated on some of the common authorship issues that often crop up and the way you can troubleshoot them effectively.

Misattribution of Authorship in search result pages of Google

Often Google search displays the image of a different author instead of the original author of the content. Now, this problem is quite serious, as your profile picture is not appearing along with your content and someone else is taking the credit of your write-up. Suppose you name is Jenny Fox, but Google displays the name John Matthew with your content on its search page.

To troubleshoot this problem, do a careful on-page search to see that whether the name John Matthew appears anywhere else on the same page where your article appears. In most of the mis-attribution cases, it often happen that Google grabbed the image and name of some other author, who appears somewhere on your content page like on the comment section. But you may ask that why Google choose this particular author for attributing authorship, since many other commenters were also present in the comment section. The primary reason is that Mr. Matthew has claimed his Google Authorship from the same domain as yours.

Usually, this kind of misattribution takes place when two authors linked their ‘Contributor To’ section to the same domain or site, but do not provide a byline on the page. ‘Contributor To’ section in a Google+ profile is the place, where Google looks for content that the owner of the profile claims to have authored. So, you can well understand that to avoid problem, it is important to provide a clear byline.

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