By Google authorship markup, Google may display the author information into search to help users discover the great content, for example, check the query: [strikethrough text in google plus]. If you want to display your author information into Google search, you'll need a Google+ Profile which having good quality profile picture, which display your headshot clearly. There are two ways to verify your authorship of your content you can check it by going to Author information in search result, but none of these method works for blogger blogs. If your blog is hosted on blogger, then follow the below steps to verify your author information in Google search and wait for some weak. (In my case, our authorship approved within 3 days. Best luck for you!)
Skip this step, if you have already created your Google+ profile. Otherwise, create yourGoogle+ profile and upload your clean headshot photo as your profile picture. It would be better, if you complete your profile to fill up about you, your interest, your websites and other info etcVerify Google Authorship Markup-Blogger | Show/Display Author Photo into Google Search
- Now go back to your blogger and --> Sign in to your blogger dashboard :
--> Click on Template under more options ::
-- > Click on Edit HTML ::
-- > Now proceed to editing and [Don't forget to backup your template] Check box in " Expand Widget Templates " and find the code (using ctrl+F) <head> and paste the below code, below <head>,<link href='YOUR GOOGLE PLUS PROFILE URL' rel='author'/>
make sure to replace your YOUR GOOGLE PLUS PROFILE URL with your Google plus profile URL in the above code. Take a preview,
- Skip this step, if you have already created your about me page. Otherwise, create yourabout me as static page into your blogger. In this page, you should be clearly write about you and your blog.
- Link all post to your about me page. As you can see in my blog, at the top navigation bar, you'll see an About us link, which is fixed for every page, means all my pages are linked with our about us page. You can do it by adding your about me page link to your navigation bar or sidebar or footer. Make sure, your about me page link must be appeared on your every post.
- Inside your about me page, you must be add a clickable link as your Google+ profile URL with rel="me" property. You can see in my about us page. We have added our Google+ profile like below,
<a href="https://plus.google.com/117108331713828988818" rel="me">Google+</a>
Make sure to replace Google+ profile URL with your own in the above code. - Now, create a clickable link as your Google+ profile URL with rel="me" into every page of your blogger. You can do it by adding your Google+ profile URL to navigation bar, sidebar or footer. For example, we have added Google+ profile link, +Mohammad, into fourth column of footer widget. Now, if you done all the steps mentioned above, then the work on blogger has been completed.
- Go back to your Google+ Account and go to your profile by clicking here on Google+ profile page. Now, click on Edit Profile, see a preview:
mouse hover on Other profiles and click on it. Now, click on Add custom link, take a preview:
link your about us page and select Public and finally, Save it.
Now, mouse hove on Contributor to and add your blog home page link. When you finished it. Finally, click on Done editing on the header.
Now, wait for some days even weeks. Hope, you'll get your author picture into Google search soon. If you have any problem to complete any step, you could notify me by comment here. I'll respond you as soon as possible.
