With regard to Google authorship in particular, I wrote a piece for Econsultancy in September of last year considering how Google might use authorship to better understand content and attribute value.

The idea that author authority affects Google rankings dates back to 2009. That's when Google was granted the so-called agent rank patent, and it openly disclosed the news in a release that authorship ...

At the recent Search Central Live NYC event, Danny Sullivan discussed what happens when a site begins publishing vastly different content on a site and how that may affect rankings, introducing the ...

In a content marketing world, image is now the king. Jennifer Reid, director at The CommsCo, explains us how applying Google Authorship to articles and posts can help boost your content Though Google ...

Google’s Gary Illyes’ answer about authorship shared insights about why Google has less trust for signals that are under direct control of site owners and SEOs and provides a better understanding ...

Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, in response to another SEO hit piece by The Verge said that author bylines and bios do not help a site or piece of content rank better. Sullivan also added ...