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How to Set Up Google Authorship & Get More Traffic to Your Website

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Google Authorship is a fairly new term in the blogging world. However, it’s a term you want to get to know, understand and use! Setting up your Google Authorship is simple and will only take you a few minutes.

If you have a blog and a Google + account, you can set up your Google Authorship.

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How to Set Up Your Google Authorship

You might already know that setting up your Google Authorship means having your picture next to online content you have produced. This is a great feature and one of the biggest reasons why people set up their authorship. However, there are other benefits to setting up your authorship.

Studies have shown that having an image next to your link in the search results will result in a higher click through rate. This means more traffic being brought to your site! We all want more traffic to our sites and this is an easy way to make sure that happens. Having your authorship set up also allows Google to index your site and content at a quicker rate, which means you appear in the search engines shortly after hitting publish.

Another benefit to setting up your Google Authorship is getting real time stats through Google Webmaster tools. Simply log into your Google Webmaster account, click on labs and then author stats. Your author stats will show you in-depth data for each article you have posted on the web. You will be able to look at your total impressions, click throughs and much more. This information is invaluable when it comes to understanding what types of content is getting clicked on.

Google Authorship Video Tutorial

To set up your Google Authorship watch this short video tutorial. This video tutorial will show you step by step how to set up your authorship with Google.

Your Turn

Let’s chat about all things related to Google authorship!

Have you set Google authorship yet? If no, we encourage you to try. If you have, are you seeing the benefits?

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About Tracie Nall

Tracie lives in Arizona with her husband, teen daughter, and more books than her shelves will hold. She spends her days writing and editing. Many of her words end up on her blog, From Tracie. Find Tracie on Twitter @FromTracie and on Instagram where she takes pictures of things that are yellow.

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  2. Tammy says

    Thank you so much for this tutorial! I went to a conference and sat in a class that walked us through this. It was very confusing. Your video was perfect and very easy to follow.

    Thanks!

  3. Rae says

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  7. Carrie says

    This is a great, very clear tutorial. I am still having trouble setting up my google authorship though. This is actually the second time I have tried. My site is listed on my google + page under the contributor section and I have linked my google + to my blog. (I also use Genesis). I can see that both of these things are done, but when I google my site, my picture only shows up next to my google + profile, not my actual site. Not sure what is going wrong – any tips on fixing this are much appreciated.

  8. Stephanie @ Hugs, Kisses and Snot says

    The day after I got home from BBC Dallas I read about 5000 Google authorship tutorials. This is the best one by far! It took me a while b/c every time I tried to check and see if it worked something seemed to be wrong. The thing that finally pushed it over the edge so it seemed to work: in my SEO plugin under Social there is a Google+ tab. There is a drop down box called Author for Homepage. When I set myself as the author everything seemed to fall into place. Now I need a lesson in reading Google Analytics 😉

  15. nicole harding says

    love this info. All went well until I got to the back end. I am not seeing the left hand column where you click on profile….still looking!

  19. Kristia says

    This was helpful, but do you know why some of my posts would show on google with my picture and some would not. I just checked one of my most popular post and a source of google traffic and it is not showing my name??

    Thanks!

  20. Tenns @ New Mama Diaries says

    I set up my authorship a while back and I feel like it legitimizes your site in the search. I’ll have to follow through with making sure I have a photo and such up with my authorship. Thanks so much for sharing!

  22. Charlotte says

    Thank you so very much for this! Only question–in my dashboard, I see Jabber/Google Talk, but no field for Google+. Is this a plug-in I can add? (excuse my ignorance here).

    Thank you!

  23. Sonia Barton says

    Great information, Thank you. I’ll have to go do this. hahaha my comment looks like a spam comment, but it is not. I really am thankful for the Great information.

  25. Ann says

    I do have mine set up; I wasn’t sure it was working until I googled a few reviews I’ve done. One was even on the first page of Google results! Thanks for a great video tutorial–it was just what I needed!

  26. Julie says

    There is just so much to this blogging stuff! With out people like you explain things I would be so lost. I’m bookmarking this so I can pop back when I have more time and real understand what’s involved. Thanks

  27. Court Star @ StarSystemz says

    This was TERRIFIC! I have been wondering for over a YEAR how someone was able to put a photo next to there post because it looks WAY more legit! Thank you for sharing this great information <3 Love + Shine CourtStar

  28. Emily says

    Good tips! I started a site a few months ago that I didn’t stick with. It’s very overwhelming to start one and I just gave it up.

  29. 7liveasia says

    Hello,
    I have some ideas for this already.
    Thanks for sharing the one more impressive and useful information.
    Thank you.

  31. Nicki Lewis says

    Thank you! I didn’t know I had already set mine up. Just had never used Webmaster Tools. My picture only shows by the first listing. Is that how it is suppose to do?

    • Kristi Corrigan says

      Your picture should show up next to any article you have wrote on your site.

      • Nicki Lewis says

        Ok looks like it is. I just did a google search for my site lewis lane designs. it had everything listed but my pic only showed by first one. Then if I search by a title of a post it put the pic by that one but then lists my other posts with no pic.

  33. Kyle Cullen says

    Google authorship is essential. I can see it getting more and more important. People want to know that the content they are reading is from a real person and not some spam company. Also it’s a great way to link all the things you are doing together.