How to Set Up Google Authorship for Attorney Marketing

Attorney Marketing Tip | How Do I Set Up Google Authorship?

Hello and welcome to another edition of Tips and Tricks Tuesday with Attorney Marketing Profits. Today we’re going to be showing you how to set up Google Authorship.  Now we got a question from one of our readers named Jimmy who is asking how he can get his picture to show up beside certain search results.

So here you will see showing you what is Google Authorship. What it is, is once you’ve set up Google Authorship, if you’re posting articles or other content out onto the internet, you can link it to your Google+ profile and search results when it returns for your article or other content on the internet will display your picture next to the search results.

So you can see here in this example where we are searching for Google Authorship and you could see the fourth entry down shows a picture by the post by Andy Crestodina where he posted an article about how to set up Google authorship and get your picture in your search results.

So here, what you want to do in order to set up Google Authorship is go to Google just like we did, type in Google Authorship.  Click on the very first link which is a link for the resource by Google on how to link the content to your Google+ profile. When you click on that link, it’s going to take you to this page and here you will see another example of a Google search result with a picture in it by Steven Levy and it gives you the four steps that you need to follow in order to link your Google+ profile to the content you create.

With these first four steps, making sure you have a Google+ profile set up, that you have a profile photo attached to that, a byline in the content that you’re creating and that byline name matches your Google+ profile. And then the final step is to verify you have an email address on the domain where you’re publishing your content.

So you want to enter your email address just like I’ve done here and then click to sign up for Authorship. Once you do that, you’re going to get an email from Google, and it’s going to request that you verify your email. Once you do that, you will get a result like this and Google+ will have confirmed that you verified your email address. If you want to, you can click on the link that’s in that message. It will take you back to your Google+ profile and show you that that email is now appearing on your profile.

Once you do that, you should have everything linked to your Google+ profile, and you could have search results that look just like these where your picture from your Google+ profile will be linked to the articles and other content that you’re putting out on the internet.

I want to show you these two posts that when you search for Google Authorship are very good resources. They’re much more detailed and go into the minutia behind exactly setting up this Google Authorship. And if you’re having problems once you’ve linked your email to your profile and you’ve posted content out there, what are some other tips and tricks that you can do? These articles are very good resources and I would recommend that you read those.

Thank you again for joining us for this edition of Tips and Tricks Tuesday with Attorney Marketing Profits where we’ve discussed how to set up your Google Authorship and have your picture linked to your post.

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Attorney Marketing Tip | How Do I Set Up Google Authorship?

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