About the new markup :
Google Authorship shows a link to your Google+ Profile along with your pic on its search results – from your website. But you need to convince it that the content is yours.
What is to be done :
1)All pages on your blog or website must link to your “About Me”/”About The Author” Page. (Create it if you don’t have one)
2)The Author page should link to your Google+ Profile.
3)Your Google+ Profile must link to the author page.
How it is to be done :
1)On your blog, Add a link to your About Page
<a rel=”author” href=”to_about_page”>
Add it to either the header, footer or the sidebar to make sure it’s available for all posts.
2)On this about page, Add a link to your Google+
<a rel=”author” href=”to_about_page”>
3)On your Google+ profile, Add a link to your blog(where you began in the first step). Don’t forget to choose “This page is specifically about me” which is equivalent to rel=”me”.
Summary :
You can verify the implementation by using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Don’t forget to use your full URL(including the “http://”) to get the correct results.
Why it works :
The “About Me” page on your blog tells Google it’s your blog and the Google+ link on the “About Me” page tells Google that the Google+ Profile represents the person who is the author of the blog. It all fits in when you tell Google+ that the blog is yours. (by adding a link to your Google+ Profile)
2 Comments
Don’t worry, Just make your you check your markup at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
If it works there, then you just need to wait. As per Google “This feature is being rolled out gradually and will be implemented algorithmically, so author information will not always display in search results.”
Can’t seem to make it work. Not showing up in results yet.. Any help would be appreciated..