James
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Interesting move by Google -
http://searchengineland.com/google-...ping-profile-image-google-circle-count-195163
James.
http://searchengineland.com/google-...ping-profile-image-google-circle-count-195163
James.
Seems like a stupid change. I was using it with a few of my sites. No idea if it really helped CTRs, but it couldn't have hurt.
Maybe too many people were abusing it?
no, google weren't making money from it.
tim
Google probably were loosing money from paid search CTR so they shifted away from using Author images, well that is my guess.
Google Author will still be used in a small way on Google News listings by the look of it for any one doing Google News work.
Google Author will still be used in a small way on Google News listings by the look of it for any one doing Google News work.
My search results still include my name and a link to my G+ profile. I wonder if that will stay or eventually disappear too...?
If it affects paid search income for Google I would say yet. It is hard to know what will stay and what will go until more details are released by Google. Overall I think another big issue with Authorship which assisted with it been taken off was up-take by users only a small percentage of sites bothered to implement it.