Google Drops Profile Photos, Google+ Circle Count From Authorship In Search Results
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...And why do people listen to Matt Cutts again?
LOL Authorship!
LOL Google+
Google knows it's search model is dyting - why else do you think they are buying all these startups and branching out. They've learned from Myspace and other old tech. that you can't just rely on one source of income...
Something all those whitehat SEOs clearly haven't figured out...
I got a client's pic back in search results like 3 weeks ago (after it was lost it from when they wiped out like 80% of pics), trying all this experimental shit, and now this bs happens.
Tell me about it.
I even started becoming "active" on Google plus and circling SEO "thought leaders".
Cunts to the man.
I don't regret being active on G+. If you're in b2b (let's say going after marketing firms) you better believe there's marketing firms on G+. Since a lot of people/spammers don't bother you can get a lot of direct contact.
Legal areas are also popular.
If you haven't, try it out. I've gotten plenty of leads.
I used to think it was just some sort of hero worship or a ball licking contest, but I'm starting to think it's a misdirected form of Stockholm Syndrome.
https://www.google.com/#q=Stockholm+Syndrome
Hey look... there's still 2 author pics and circle counts on the front page. Are they doing this, or just seeing what the uproar will be first?
Google Stops Showing Authorship In Search Results
Original Announcement:
That's a wrap for Google+
Original Announcement:
That's a wrap for Google+
Google is rapidly arriving at monopoly mis-management, throwing billions down the drain in failed projects, claiming one thing one day, the opposite the other day, not caring about the product, but only the income/tax. Or is this some backroom deal with Facebook? I do remember how much Google pushed Google+ and how they basically claimed it would change the world and how every SEO billed their clients $250 an hour to install it. This wasn't a small project for Google, it was a major financial and prestige project. Add one more to the ever growing long list of failures of Google to diversify, Google glass will be the next.
My Google Plus networks and traffic keep growing. I'm probably doing something different and looking at it from a different perspective than the consistent naysayers, though.
The authorship and profile photos in SERPS aspect is/was just one "feature."
The authorship and profile photos in SERPS aspect is/was just one "feature."
I forgot I was on Google+, so I decided to go check it out to see if anything cool was happening. I had messages from about ~10 Indians wanting to know if I needed SEO services, my friend.
So, it's like every social network?
There's gold in circles and communities. Especially B2B.
Yeah people are very active in the communities. I can ask a question or start a topic in some and have a handful of responses in a very short while. For example the Linux community.
About the OP, my estimation is that the authorship code is still useful to have on your site. Since it legitimizes the content. I can't see Google completely devaluing something they recommended to hundreds of thousands of web authors. :disgust:
This is true indeed and just because one of their projects doesn't live up to the hype it doesn't mean it's failed.
Take G+ for example, the only reason most people are not replacing it with Facebook is because most of their acquaintances are not using it.
As a social platform, I find G+ design better structured.