Google Authorship has been one of the biggest developments in the search in the recent year. It is a simple mechanism by which the search results are influenced by Author Rank. What this basically does is offers higher rankings to the content on the SERP where multiple copies of the same content by various websites. The search results are also influenced by the Author Ranks and thus if your contributor(s) have a highly ranked profile you can gain higher rankings. This is also a nice way of inviting guest authors to post on your website. Assigning authorship to the content had been a tedious all this while as the users needed to use the code (rel= €author€ or rel=€me€ anyone?) for every content published on the website.
If you are using WordPress as your CMS you can easily create Authorship for a contributor and link it to their Google+ account. There are a number of plugins that allow you to achieve this is easy steps such as the Genesis Framework for WordPress. When this plugin is used it inserts the Google+ profile link to every post on the WordPress website. Here in this article we shall see how you can create Authorship for multiple authors on your website.
Add Google+ Profile Link - To start with go to the user edit screen and paste the Google+ profile link that you already have copied from you have already copied from your account. Once the profile link has been added you can verify the same by viewing the source code of your website. Verification of authorship is extremely necessary when you have multiple authors posting on your website.
Add Contributor Link - Once you are done with adding the Google+ profile link to the website you need to add a reciprocal link to promote the website to the Google+ page of the author. To do so visit the Google+ profile page and edit the €Contributor To' section. Here you need to enter the URL of the website in the dialog box by clocking on €Add Custom Link'.
Test Authorship - Once you have configured the Google+ profile it is time you test if everything is working according to plan. You can make use of the Structured Data Testing Tool provided by Google
Apart from using the Genesis Framework you can also use the Google Authorship for Multiple Authors plugin to create Google Authorship on WordPress for multiple authors. This plugin adds a new Google+ field for every user profile in the WordPress database. All that your authors need to do is copy-paste their profile link into that field. Once this is done the plugin automatically links back to the profile on every post they contribute to the website. It takes very less time for a new page to get indexed before you see the authorship photographs on the search engine results pages. Installing this plugin is easy and all you need to do is upload the plugin into the /wp-content/plugins directory.
If you are using WordPress as your CMS you can easily create Authorship for a contributor and link it to their Google+ account. There are a number of plugins that allow you to achieve this is easy steps such as the Genesis Framework for WordPress. When this plugin is used it inserts the Google+ profile link to every post on the WordPress website. Here in this article we shall see how you can create Authorship for multiple authors on your website.
Add Google+ Profile Link - To start with go to the user edit screen and paste the Google+ profile link that you already have copied from you have already copied from your account. Once the profile link has been added you can verify the same by viewing the source code of your website. Verification of authorship is extremely necessary when you have multiple authors posting on your website.
Add Contributor Link - Once you are done with adding the Google+ profile link to the website you need to add a reciprocal link to promote the website to the Google+ page of the author. To do so visit the Google+ profile page and edit the €Contributor To' section. Here you need to enter the URL of the website in the dialog box by clocking on €Add Custom Link'.
Test Authorship - Once you have configured the Google+ profile it is time you test if everything is working according to plan. You can make use of the Structured Data Testing Tool provided by Google
Apart from using the Genesis Framework you can also use the Google Authorship for Multiple Authors plugin to create Google Authorship on WordPress for multiple authors. This plugin adds a new Google+ field for every user profile in the WordPress database. All that your authors need to do is copy-paste their profile link into that field. Once this is done the plugin automatically links back to the profile on every post they contribute to the website. It takes very less time for a new page to get indexed before you see the authorship photographs on the search engine results pages. Installing this plugin is easy and all you need to do is upload the plugin into the /wp-content/plugins directory.