Google Authorship Changing – Second Class Authorship gone!
h/t to Mark Traphagen for this!
Authorship is the way Google knows you own the content on a page, article, video or other piece of content. It does this after you connect the content to your Google+ profile. One advantage in this is that your G+ profile image can appear by the result on Google.
Last year many noticed that the authorship of some results were kind of demoted meaning that some showed the rich snippet information and some didn’t.
Well, according to Mark Traphagen things have changed. Maybe this could be something to do with the recent algorithm changes at Google Search?
I’ve been frustrated with the way my authorship is shown in Google. Sometimes Google shows my photo and sometimes it doesn’t. For example, if you put in “HootSuite Review” you should see my Hootsuite article (7 Reasons NOT to use Hootsuite), but (at least for me) there is no photo.
Maybe time will tell. Have you noticed any changes?
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Originally shared by Mark Traphagen
Second Class Google Authorship Is Gone!
BREAKING! It appears that Google has ended the practice it began last December of demoting some Authorship rich snippet results in Google Search to what I called “second class authorship.” Second class result got only a byline under the title of the result, but no author photo.
Now we are back to the way things were before December, at least in this regard. As it was then, the only time a byline-only Authorship result will show is if the author already has a photo result on the same search result page.
I checked on this because a number of people told me that their second class authorship got converted back to first class today. I’ve checked about 40 different queries that show authorship results and have yet to find a second class result.
What we haven’t determined yet is if this also signals a relaxing of the reduction of authorship snippets overall that Google instituted in December. Stay tuned!
