Show Author's Photo in Google Search Results for Blogger Blogs or any Website
Well, you can find picture and name of author in some Google search result. As Google can now display your name as well as your profile picture in search results next to stories that you may have written. The picture will in turn link to your Google Profile page. You may want to see this page on Google for a live example.
What’s the advantage?
As a content creator, this is an important feature for you because you can now indirectly claim authorship of your content on Google search pages.
There’s another advantage as well – your Google CTRs may improve. That’s because a Google page is often chock-full of text and thus people might be attracted more towards a result that has some visual element (the author’s photograph) attached to it.
Now you must wondering how to do it for your site or blog? So your image is appear in search result related to your site in Google. This is very simple. If you write a blog or have a website where authors can contribute stories, here’s a new feature in Google – Authorship – that you’ll find very hard to ignore (and you should not)
How to do it?
I search in google.com about "How to add authors picture in Google search result"
It gave me many results, I try labnol.com and few more sites. What they say, can not help you in case of blogger blog. So I do some research & do it in my way.
1. Open a Google+ profile : click here (not fan page, just profile. If you are already on Google +, skip this step)
2. Click on Edit profile
3. Add your site's ULR in the Contributor to section with www (i.e. www.learntricks.in)
4. Open your site/blog, create a about me page (i.e. http://www.learntricks.in/p/about.html)
It gave me many results, I try labnol.com and few more sites. What they say, can not help you in case of blogger blog. So I do some research & do it in my way.
1. Open a Google+ profile : click here (not fan page, just profile. If you are already on Google +, skip this step)
2. Click on Edit profile
3. Add your site's ULR in the Contributor to section with www (i.e. www.learntricks.in)
4. Open your site/blog, create a about me page (i.e. http://www.learntricks.in/p/about.html)
5. So if you are using blogger and wonder how to put something only on home page then click edit HTML >> Proceed and paste
<link rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID/about" /> just after
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> (find this by clicking Ctrl+F)
but before
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>
6.Edit your About me page and put <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID" rel="me">YOUR NAME+</a> anywhere, better if you give it twice in your site's about me page
7. Add an HTML gadget and add this <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID?[give a space]rel=author">YOUR NAME+</a> and do not forget to give space
(i.e. <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID? rel=author">YOUR NAME+</a>)
8. That’s it. Wait for Google to re-crawl your new content and then test your links. Open the rich snippets tool and copy-paste the URL of one of your recent stories in the preview box. If the results say verified author (see the screenshot below)
9. Click here fill this form and let Google know about your changes! (although, it's not so necessary)
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You must solve this error, or Google may not able to show your photo in Google search result. So to know how click here.
<link rel="me" href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID/about" /> just after
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> (find this by clicking Ctrl+F)
but before
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>
6.Edit your About me page and put <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID" rel="me">YOUR NAME+</a> anywhere, better if you give it twice in your site's about me page
7. Add an HTML gadget and add this <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID?[give a space]rel=author">YOUR NAME+</a> and do not forget to give space
(i.e. <a href="https://plus.google.com/YOUR-ID? rel=author">YOUR NAME+</a>)
8. That’s it. Wait for Google to re-crawl your new content and then test your links. Open the rich snippets tool and copy-paste the URL of one of your recent stories in the preview box. If the results say verified author (see the screenshot below)
9. Click here fill this form and let Google know about your changes! (although, it's not so necessary)
If your site is Blogger Blog you must see this error :
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Warning: Missing required field "updated".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".
You must solve this error, or Google may not able to show your photo in Google search result. So to know how click here.
Other Troubleshooting tips:
If Google is still not willing to display your profile picture in search pages, here are some things you can try :
1. Make sure your author page is complete with some pictures, you have written a bio and that you have linked to your other social profiles. Also, the author page should be on the same domain as your articles /stories.
2. Your Google Profile should also be complete with your bio and include links to your own site as well as your other online profiles.
3. Google will pick the picture thumbnail from your Google Profile page and thus use an actual picture of yourself (not an icon). The picture should look good even when compressed into a 50×50 thumbnail image.
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