AuthorRank - The main aim for SEO?
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Is AuthorRank now the main game in the SEO world for 2013?
I've seen some say AuthorRank must be worked on now, if you haven't started already?
Who's agrees with this and who doesn't? And why...
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I can't say that my CTR has increased. Nothing noticable.
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Thanks for that EGOL,
Always helps when someone has experience of actually doing it.
Did you see a higher CTR when you added the pictures?
Cheers
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AuthorRank helps and the more G+ engagement you have, the better. Here is an example: http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/07/how-google-author-rank-could-change-content-marketing-and-journalism/. If nothing else, I would be more apt to click on a link if someone's photo was next to it. Also, many are now getting their G+ post snippets to rank in the SERPs as well (Mark Traphagen comes to mind).
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From what I understand you connect your Google+ account with your website much like the way you do with other Google products.
You then link the article to your Google+ and create a connection by linking back, seems to me this would be the best way of doing it, if indeed Google was going to come up with a system (AR).
Yep.... I have years and years of content that has lots of great rankings and lots of great links and lots of social sharing. ALL of this content is posted on one website - not shared with anybody, syndicated or republished.
We waited for several months after google introduced linking your work to your Google+ page and I did it exactly as you describe.
I expected to get a huge boost in the SERPs.
Nuthin' happened. Well.... my photo now appears in the SERPs beside my articles... but it had zero influence on my rankings.
Maybe Google did this to get good authors to sign up for Google+.
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Thanks Egol,
Looking at the way the Authorship system works, do you think if Google was to connect content with auhors then the current system is the best way to do it?
From what I understand you connect your Google+ account with your website much like the way you do with other Google products.
You then link the article to your Google+ and create a connection by linking back, seems to me this would be the best way of doing it, if indeed Google was going to come up with a system (AR).
I've just been looking into way of tapping into social a bit more this year really, I know from older posts of yours EGOL you believe in creating great content and using it on your own website/blog, but do you do anything offsite to help with the marketing of the content?
Thanks
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I believe that creating kickass content is the best way to advance your website and I have been working on that for quite some time.
However, I can't say that AuthorRank does anything for you.
Just create content that is better than what already exists for your topic and you will probably be rewarded.
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