Thursday, October 9, 2014

The Death of Google Authorship: Why Being an Author Isn’t Dead by @JuliaEMcCoy

Just a few months ago (late July 2014), we heard about the disappearance of the Authorship head shot. Now, the news has broken that Google has killed Authorship. Not changed it in another way. You heard that right: Google killed Authorship. Google Authorship is Dead At least that is how Forbes contributor TJ McCue put it, in a post published last week, following Google’s announcement that its Authorship experiment has run its course. In practical terms, this means Google will no longer use the rel=author markup to track content to a self-identified author, effectively eliminating authorship features from its search results page. […]

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