Google Has Ditched The Authorship Markup!

Will It Affect PageRank?

All of a sudden, Google has announced that the authorship markup days are gone and that they have permanently closed it down.

This was followed by the dropping out of authorship reporting in Webmaster Tools. Now, everything that was related to Google Authorship has been removed.

Why Authorship Has Been Removed?

The Google Authorship was leveled not for the public, but for the experts, and according to John Mueller, lack of adoption by the experts led down to the closure of the Google Authorship Markup.

How are you affected by the drop in the Authorship?

However, it is quite evident now that when you cross-refer your site and the Google+ profile with the Google authorship markup code, it will not show the images next to the write-ups.

Is Author Rank affected by the drop in Authorship?

Author rank is completely different for the idea of Google Authorship. Your Author Rank is dependent on how Google alters the ranking of a page on the basis of the writer or the authority of the writer.

How Google+ will be affected by the close down of

Authorship?

It was mandatory for all businesses to be present on Google+ in order to get their high quality content published with the author image. It could be quite tough for Google+ to stand alone on its own advantages.

John Mueller’s Statement On The Removal Of Authorship.

“It’s also worth mentioning that Search users will still see Google+ posts from friends and pages when they’re relevant to the query — both in the main results, and on the right-hand side. Today’s authorship change doesn’t impact these social features.”

Conclusion

It is still worthy having your content shared through the +1 button as you get more credibility on having the content shared on Google+. Google+ will still continue to rank on some of the portions of the Google search results page.

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