Monday, July 21, 2014

What You Need To Know About Google Authorship Now?

By telangana.tuday.in on 9:59 AM No comments

What You Need To Know About Google Authorship Now?

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 12:11 PM PDT

Last month, Google took us all by surprise when John Mueller, Google's Webmaster trends analyst, announced that author profile pictures will be stripped away from search results. Google also removed the Google+ view counter for both the mobile and desktop versions of the search engine. Seemingly, all this is in a bid to free up some real estate on search result pages. But to what end? Increased CTR as Google really claims, or more prominence for ads? And what do these changes really mean for Google Authorship?