{"id":301,"date":"2013-04-22T00:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2013-04-22T00:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:23:56","slug":"google-authorship-profile-pictures-in-search-results-pages-increases-clicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-authorship-profile-pictures-in-search-results-pages-increases-clicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Authorship &#8211; Profile pictures in search results pages increases clicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses should be aware that Google has rolled out Google+ Authorship &#8211; which rewards content that has been verified using the rel=author tag related to the author&#8217;s Google+ profile. Its requires the author to verify the content they have written by placing the code on their website and then adding the website that features the content into their Google+ Profile. This is how Google knows the author wrote the content. Google then puts places the profile pictures in search results pages which increases clicks. It&#8217;s a smart way to reward authors who provide content and helps users to see which results are verified by highlighting the link with a photograph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GoogleAuthor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-302\" alt=\"GoogleAuthor2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GoogleAuthor2.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GoogleAuthor2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GoogleAuthor2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses should be aware that Google has rolled out Google+ Authorship &#8211; which rewards content that has been verified using the rel=author tag related to the author&#8217;s Google+ profile. Its requires the author to verify the content they have written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-authorship-profile-pictures-in-search-results-pages-increases-clicks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}