I understand Authorship is Dead, but here's a question on the Google+ Profile
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I guest write for some blogs, as well as several blogs I manage myself.
What is the correct usage of the "Contributor to" field and the "Links" field?
Contributor to: The overall blog itself and;
Links: To individual blog posts themselves?
Or the reverse?
Thank you!
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I read this article on Search Engine Land last week about authorship
http://searchengineland.com/authorship-dead-long-live-authorship-217209
It contains a lot of great insights about how to navigate the post-google-plus-authorship landscape.
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Thanks Richard!
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Hi Mikey, I don't really believe authorship is dead, I just think Google have stopped advertising it and their official stance is that it doesn't matter anymore. I still think that it holds a tiny bit of weight somewhere deep within the algorithm. I'm sure they stopped using it purely because the author images in the search results were taking clicks away from the adWords results.
The contributor section in your Google plus profile is used to specify either the exact page you contributed to, or the overall website. It's up to you whether you want to link to the exact page your content is on, or whether you want to specify you contribute to the entire website.
The 'links' section in your profile is just for any links that interest you, not necessarily pages that you have contributed to. The links section is reserved for a few links that can point back to your own sites or any other pages you want people to look at or send link juice to. Hope that helps a little.
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