Ultimate Guide To Get Google Authorship Verified Within 1 Day

Have you surprised how some people’s faces are appearing in google SERP(Search Engine Results Page)? How this works and how you can show your face on google search next to your website?Up to now there are so many tutorials about Google Authorship for wordpress and blogger but no one guarantee your profile image will be displayed in the SERP.After researching and experimenting i found a sure way method to display your picture in the Google search.It doesn't take you 1week or 6 months to display your picture next to your website.This process takes 1 day to show your picture and the steps are very simple to follow and understand.

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What is Google Authorship?

This feature of Google allows you to connect your web articles using your Google Plus profile.By this feature,you can validate and claim authorship for your blogs and also this enables you to have an image of you in Google search results which increases your online visibility.

Additional Benefits Google Authorship and Search Traffic:

Having a snapshot showing up in the search results,your posts will have a larger possibility of getting noticed by people.Google Authorship has the trend to pull in more visitors to your website.Your website will get higher click through rate than normal.It lets you differentiate your post in search results and it will increase your +1 and circles in Google Plus because your visitors will have much easier access to your profile than ever,and most of all your website get's authority.

List Of Thing's To Do Before Getting Google Authorship:

• Have a real human profile picture not your website logo or anything because Google want to show authors not brands.
• Upload a clear headshot for example passport size.
• Fill and complete your about me page.
• Enable plus one tab.
• Show Contributor To Section as Public.
• At Profile discovery section choose Profile visible in search.
• If you have a E-mail Id starting with your domain name verify it and set the option to public.

Follow This 3 Steps To Get Google Authorship Within 1 Day:

Step-1:Create a link to your Google Plus profile (Personal not Google+ page) from your website, like this

<a href="https://plus.google.com/Profile-ID?rel=author">Your Google + Profile Name</a>

Replace "Profile-ID" and "Your Google + Profile Name" with your Google+ profile URL and name so the code look like this.

<a href="https://plus.google.com/107051614052586843330? rel=author">Shree Madhan</a>

The best place to use this code is under your footer links.If you see my footer link "Shree Madhan" then you will get the idea.I am not specifying to use the footer,you can also use the code in sidebar or any place you want.The footer place worked for me so i am recommending you to use footer links.

Step-2:Now go to Contributor To section in your Google+ profile.At the popup box click,Add custom link,and enter your website title and URL and click save 

Note-For Blogger blogs use .com at theend don't use .in,.us,.pk etc..,

Step-3:Go to Rich Snippet Testing Tool to see how your website is extracted in SERP,and check your picture is showing next to your webpage.

Some Tricks To Get Google Authorship Within One Day:

Step-4:At the Contributor To section add your google plus profile URL like this

https://plus.google.com/Profile-ID

Replace "Profile-ID" with your profile URL like this

https://plus.google.com/107051614052586843330

To check this go to Rich Snippet Testing Tool and type your profile URL,and you will see your picture next to your Google+ profile.

How To Solve Blogger Template Error hfeed hentry:

If you get warning message like hfeed and hentry in Rich Snippet Testing Tool follow this steps

Step-1:Go to Template>Edit HTML.(Backup your template)

Step-2:Check Expand Widget Templates 

Step-3:Press Ctrl+F and 

Step-4:Find this code hfeed you will get like this two times 

          <div class='blog-posts hfeed'>

          Just remove hfeed so it look like this

          <div class='blog-posts'>

Step-5:Now find this code hentry You will get 

         <div class='post hentry'> and <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template'> 

         Remove hentry from both so that you get 

         <div class='post'> and <div class='post uncustomized-post-template'>

Step-6:Check you website In Rich Snippet Testing Tool.The error is solved.

How Long Does It Take For Google To Show Your Face?

If you followed all the steps i mentioned above then it will takes you only one day to show your picture.For me it takes 10 hours to show my profile pic next to my website.I implemented this code in morning and night when i see my website in SERP kaboom my profile picture is there surprise.Actually google introduce this feature long back November 2011. Ihave been trying this on that month onwards.I read many articles about Google Authorship but none of them helped me.And finally i found a trick so i just want to help you guys to make thing's very easy.

If you found any difficulties implementing this code let me know in the comments.

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