Google Authorship on Giant Robots

May 22, 2013 calebjthompson google authorship Google Authorship on Giant Robots You may have noticed a recent addition to our blog posts. We concluded an experiment to add a “Written by [Author Name]” byline and link the author’s name to their Google+ profile. Google calls this Authorship . It is a feature that lets you verify that you are the author of some content, such as a blog post. It is kind of like a microformat that Google uses in its search algorithms. It also causes an author’s face to show in Google search results: We take the following one-time steps to set up Google Authorship for each author on our blog: Get a Google+ accoun...