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You know those cool author pictures you sometimes see in Google\u2019s search results? \u00a0They may be slowly going away, in a move Google\u2019s Matt Cutts says will increase the quality of search results. \u00a0Authorship \u2013 Googles way to attribute something you write online to your profile, has been found to increase the likelihood of getting clicks in search results pages, and that\u2019s why you\u2019ll often see multiple pictures on the first page for a popular search term \u2013 everybody wants the click.<\/p>\n

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At this time, the SEO geeks haven\u2019t determined exactly why people are getting cut, but it\u2019s suspected that quality and authority of the website plays an important role. \u00a0 We\u2019ll keep our eye on this. \u00a0In the meantime, learn more at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.virante.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/19\/authorshippocalypse-google-authorship-penguin-finally-appeared\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know those cool author pictures you sometimes see in Google\u2019s search results? \u00a0They may be slowly going away, in a move Google\u2019s Matt Cutts says will increase the quality of search results. \u00a0Authorship \u2013 Googles way to attribute something you write online to your profile, has been found to increase the likelihood of getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nGoogle Authorship Purposely Limited | MCM Digital Products<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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