Has Google Authorship been completely removed from SERPs?
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Noticed today that when I search (non-personalised search, incognito etc.) some of my pages on Google ALL references to authorship have now been completely removed.
Does anyone know when this change occurred? I might be a bit slow this week (or last week) with concentrating on projects.
I know like others that photos went some time back but now there are no author details being displayed. Just the page title and description.
David
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Will do & thanks for the link.
David
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drill down here on moz for Cyrus's blog post on same here - http://moz.com/blog/traffic-case-study
well worth the read!
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Yup many thanks,
I guess I've been not been monitoring this one well. I was aware of these posts but not when the authorship was completely stopped.
David
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I'm afraid it stopped way back at the end of August. You can see it here - http://algoroo.com/ & here http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975
ad finally here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6083347
John Mueller said -
"I’ve been involved since we first started testing authorship markup and displaying it in search results. We’ve gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we’ve tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of authorship information. Unfortunately, we’ve also observed that this information isn’t as useful to our users as we’d hoped, and can even distract from those results. With this in mind, we’ve made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results."
author rank is still a thing though so still worth using your G+
(just to edit the date was 28th August 2014)
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Many thanks
Yip I'v read these articles (except John's posting). I think though as EGOL is mentioning that the actual removal must have been pretty recent. I for instance could still see authorship details a few days ago.
Maybe it was today, maybe not
David
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Yes, Google has completely dropped all authorship functionality from the search results and webmaster tools.
John Mueller of Google Webmaster Tools has announced in a Google+ post here- https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8
Some more resources you may find helpful-
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2352147/Google-to-Remove-Author-Images-from-Search-Results
http://moz.com/blog/author-photos-are-gone-does-google-authorship-still-have-value-29334
http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-google-authorship-201975
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Thanks for the info.
I checked GWMT tools for any related notifications to this but nothing that I can see.
I suppose there has been much talk of late about the actual effectiveness of authorship in SERPs influence and may be the decided to pull it.
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Mine is missing too. Must have been pretty recently taken down or people at my office would have noticed.
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