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Google Authorship for your Plumbing or HVAC Business – How to set it up correctly
by Josh Nelson on June 26, 2013
Have you ever wondered why some plumbing companies have a picture of their face next to their website link in the search results on Google (as pictured above)? The reason is Google Authorship. They have properly setup and configured authorship on their site. On this post I will explain what Authorship is, why it’s important and how to configure it properly for your Plumbing or HVAC Business.
Webinar Reply Video
Below is a recording of a live training that I conducted covering “Google Authorship for your Plumbing and / or HVAC Business”:
If you would like to be a part of one of our live weekly update calls you can register by going to http://www.pluberseo.net/weekly
What is Google Authorship?
It’s a way for Google to show within the search results who’s the author of the content on a specific page. The result shows a headshot of the author, a link to his Google+ profile, the number of Google+ circles the author is in and a link to more search results for this author.
Why is Authorship important?
- Makes your listing jump off the pages
- Higher credibility with your listing resulting in a better click through rate
- Better stats available in your Webmaster tools account
How to setup Authorship on your site
1. You setup you Google+ Profile by going to Google.com/Plus
- Try to use the gMail account that was used to setup your Google+ Local (formally Google Places) listing if at all possible
- Edit your “profile picture” to show a head-shot. Don’t use a logo. Google has face recognition software and will not show you listing properly is a head shot is not used.
- 2. Edit your “about” profile and scroll to links to add a “contributor link”
STEP 3: Add the Authorship Markup code to the Head Section on your website
- Go to the HTML of your website or have your web developer go to the HTML on your website and add the markup code in the <Head> Section of the code just like adding any other tracking scrip
- Authorship Code:
<link rel=”author” href=”https://plus.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxx/posts”/> - Replace the X’s with your Google Plus number — this can be found if you visit Google+ while logged into the system… simply look at your address bar to locate your unique number.
Step 4 – Test rich snippet so ensure Google is recognizing Authorship
- Got to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets & type in your url
- If it worked correctly the snipped with will show like below
Authorship – Rich Snippet Test
If you follow these steps and your rich snippet test checks out you should start to see your profile photo showing up next to your search results within the next 1-2 weeks.
Step-by-step video walk through
Below is a video I recorded that walks you through these steps live.
If you would like to download our Google Authorship Report along with the slides from the presentation just enter your information below and we will send it to you right away:
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