Rel=author, google plus, picture in Article page SERP
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Hello,
Could someone explain the easiest way to use Google Plus and rel="author" to claim our articles written by us and get our picture beside them in the Google SERPS
site: nlpca(dot)com
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Here's a great SEOMoz post on the subject:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building
And if you're using a Wordpress CMS: http://www.devonwebdesigners.com/3278/relauthor-step-by-step-for-wordpress/
Best of luck, I'm in the process of implementing this myself. And as others have noted, you can test if it's working through GWT.
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I have tried to implement this on my Grass Roots SEO site which seems to be working just by using the following code:
<a <span="">rel</a><a <span="">="author" href="</a>https://plus.google.com/107417726658928760708">+Martin Evans
My Google+ profile also shows my site as a site I contribute to.
More info can be found at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-publisher-code-with-badge-and-1-button?replies=1#post-790448 if you plan to do this on a wordpress site.
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here's a great walk through. I just did it on our site and it worked well.
http://www.virante.com/blog/2012/01/08/how-to-show-your-author-photo-in-google-search-results/
just make sure to use Google's rich snippet tool to check your work before submitting it to Google's Microdata Submission
Also, here's google's official walk through http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
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