Everyone might have spend few time on blogging and reading some blogs so there are maximum chances that you must know about the verified authorship of Google Plus and how its effect is changing the search engine.

Though it is a very little alteration but when it is properly implemented on word press blogs along with authored contents then this addition can bring a great impact on the appearance of yours in Google’s search engine results. Also it is not time consuming because you only have to spend 15 minutes for setting up the verified authorship of Google plus on the word press blog. So in this post I am going to throw some light on rel=”author” tag of Google Plus and how easily you can implement it on your word press blog.

What is Google plus rel=”Author” tag?

The Google+ rel=”Author” tag can easily add author image in the results of search engine. So whenever anyone search for the article present on your blog then your image will appear across the result if you have used the Google+ rel=”Author” tag.

This is really a very incredible feature which all bloggers must use on their word press blog so that they can get the best search engine results for their word press blog. This feature will also help in increasing the click through rates and conversation system…

Adding Google+ rel=”author” tag

Following are the steps for adding Google+ rel=”Author” tag

The initial and very important step for adding Google+ rel=”Author” tag in your word press blog is to first set up a Google plus profile because here the Google fetches your image form the Google plus profile. Now after making a Google plus account you have to fill your profile completely and try to make it attractive also add a high quality image to your Google plus profile.

In second step you have to insert the url and name of the blogs you are contributing to. Now in third step you have to go to your word press blog and add author link to your blog. This can be done in flowing ways:

For Single Author Blog

After doing this you have to wait till Google re- crawl your pages and blog posts and shows your pic with them.

For Multi-Authors Blog

If you are working in multi author blog then you have to insert an extra field in the author’s page. Here you have to add the code to the functioning of theme. This can be done as follows.

1. <?php
2. function my_new_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
3. // Add Twitter
4. $contactmethods['google'] = ‘Google+’;

then again we need to do these steps ……

1. return $contactmethods;
2. }
3. add_filter(‘user_contactmethods’,'my_new_contactmethods’,10,1);
4. ?>

Now you have to link the Google profile which includes the rel=”Author” attribute in the author’s bio section, sing the following code  using the following code:

1. <?php echo $curauth->google; ?>

Finally all the steps are over. To verify whether rel = “ author ” is properly configured or not for any pages whose author is the user,You can check these setting by opening Google’s Rich Snippets testing tool for making sure that you have properly implemented these settings or not…

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