Meyers also noticed the authorship drop . On November 24, 2013 they saw peak in authorship of 23.71

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At Pubcon Las Vegas in October, Google's Matt Cutts commented in his keynote that they would be tightening up authorship in order to combat spam. Google found that if they removed about 15 percent of the lesser quality authors, it dramatically increased the presence of higher quality hanjin shipping schedule authors within their search results.
In mid-December, hanjin shipping schedule Google rolled out new authorship algorithms designed to display authorship for what they consider relevant and interesting authors, Google has confirmed to Search Engine Watch: We made some minor updates. We had been showing author information whenever we could based on authorship markup, email verification, and other signals of authorship on the web. In mid-December, we rolled out new algorithms designed to show author photos when they're more likely to be relevant and interesting. (For example, the algorithms now try to estimate the quality of documents an author typically writes).
Authorship is also going to put a greater emphasis on high quality content, so that authors that write higher-quality content hanjin shipping schedule are more likely to have their authorship with image displayed. Said Google: If an author typically writes high quality hanjin shipping schedule content, that author is more likely hanjin shipping schedule to be relevant to you.
While quality content hanjin shipping schedule is important for SEO and search result rankings, it isn't surprising that Google is using this as a signal for when to display authorship, and to display authorship with or without pictures. Related articles
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Google+ will also play a large role when those authorship photos are displayed. If you have someone in your circles in Google+, their social signals will increase the likelihood that you will see that person's image in the search results. This will make it even more important to authors that they are being circled and promoting themselves hanjin shipping schedule on Google+, particularly since search results with authorship displayed (especially from those authors the searcher recognizes) tend to get higher click-throughs. According to Google: We also rely on social signals designed to show you author portraits for the people you've circled on Google+. So now you'll see 20-40% fewer author photos overall to start with, and even when you don't see an author portrait you'll still see the author name.
Authors began noticing the change around December 13-14 when their names were displayed, but their images were not. Nothing in an author's Google+ account, or with authorship specifically, lets an author control whether the picture displays. The algorithm definitely favors higher quality content, as well as who the searcher has in their Google+ Circles, when deciding whether to display an author's hanjin shipping schedule image.
Google also told SEW: We continue recommending that authors properly hanjin shipping schedule implement authorship to help users discover their content more easily hanjin shipping schedule in Search and other Google products. Continue focusing on creating great content that people want to read and share and the rest will follow.
Regardless of whether authorship is displayed, Google is still showing Circle counts for both. But the overall number of times an author has been circled doesn't seem to have an impact for those who aren't hanjin shipping schedule in the searcher's circles.
Whether an author's portrait hanjin shipping schedule is displayed seems to be not only influenced by personal quality, but also the quality of the site that the author hanjin shipping schedule posted to. The same author can have his portrait shown for one site, but merely a byline on a second hanjin shipping schedule site.
"It also seems that Google may be refining their assessment to sites and even individual pages, and not just white-listing authors and granting rich listings on every single thing they write," according to Dr. Peter J. Meyers (aka Dr. Pete) from Moz.
Meyers also noticed the authorship drop . On November 24, 2013 they saw peak in authorship of 23.71 percent. By December 19, 2013, it hit a low of 20.03 percent, which is a relative drop of 15.5 percent.
An interesting point he does make is that authorship actually increased slightly after the Cutts keynote before we saw the relatively steady decline, which tracks correctly for when the authorship algorithm changed in mid-December.
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