Google authorship - picture in search results by Sameera Thilakasiri

This is option is safe the author of the article, Google + and Google search result together work. From the Google + pick the author profile picture and shows in the result.

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1. Want display your Google plus profile picture in search result called Google authorship by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast 1
2. Example of Google result for author 2 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
3. Google Authourship Google can now show your name and profile picture in search results next to the stories you may have written. The image turns link to your Google profile page. As a content creator or blogger, this is an important feature for you, because you can now indirectly claim authorship of your content on Google search pages, this is called Google authorship. The advantage of Google's CTR can improve. This is because a page of Google is often full of text and so people may be attracted more towards an outcome that has a visual element (author's photograph) is credited. 3 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
4. How it works Google will often show the author’s profile picture even when authorship is not properly implemented on the web site when the Google+ profile page has the links on the about page. Since only 9% of tech blogs properly implement the meta data, Google knows they can’t rely on webmasters to get it right. So Google is using other means to make the search results “richer” through backwards engineering the authorship tags. 4 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
5. Let’s get started: Step 1: create a page to you in your blog, most probably About Me page, By creating the hyperlink to your Google profile page, remember to add rel = "me" <a href= " https://plus.google.com/YOUR ID " rel= " me " >My Profile</a> Step2: make sure all the blog stories which you have written are linked to your About Me page <a href="http://yourwebsite.com/about/" rel= " author " >My biography</a> Step3: login to Google plus page and add a new custom link that point to your blog. 5 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
6. How to test How to test it whether you did write ways. Wait few days Google to re-crawl your site. Open the Rich Snippets Testing Tool(http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools /richsnippets). Submit your site and test it, you may realize it works. 6 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
7. Test results 7 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast
8. Author Sameera Thilakasiri is a website designer based in Colombo. Specialist in UI,UX, SEO, IA, IxD, RWD. He is blogging technical areas while is leisure. He canbe reached by http://www.sameerast.com and tech blog http://blog.samerast.com , Google + https://plus.google.com/111681059766080908127 8 by Sameera Thilakasiri | www.sameerast.com | tweet @ sameerast