How to set up Google Authorship for WordPress.com Blogs
by Martin Brossman and Andrew Hill
1) Set up a Google Plus personal profile page.
2) Edit the page and go to the area “Contributor to” and add the URL of your WordPress.com blog with a real description above it. Make sure to save it. For example: “Martin Brossman in the Media” is the description and the URL is http://martinbrossmanmedia.wordpress.com/
3. Open another window or tab your WordPress.com blog so you can switch back and forth between your Google Plus account and it. You will need the unique number of your Google Plus page in this process. Mine is 103386024139526427298 that I got from this link: https://plus.google.com/103386024139526427298/about
4. You are going to have to put some code in your to your main page using at Text widget. The code is this below but you will substitute your own Google Profile number for mine. Make sure to do this right for I don’t want to get credit for your work. 🙂
This is the code:
Connect with me on: <a href=”https://plus.google.com/103386024139526427298?rel=author”>Google+</a>
(again you will use that unique number in the URL of your Google Plus page to set this up and replace my number “103386024139526427298” with your number. Double check this. or use this one to just copy and insert the number between / and ?:
Connect with me on: <a href=”https://plus.google.com/?rel=author”>Google+</a>
Make sure to scroll down and select Update Profile .
5) Go into the Widget area under the Appearance in the dashboard and click on the “Text” widget and drag it over to the one of the areas like”Main Sidebar”. You want it in a Widget that will show up on all pages. Copy the code in that area too. Make sure to select Save as well.
And I have opened the Text Widget up to see how I pasted the code in there:
6) Last go to the Google rich snippet tool and check to see if it works by pasting in the URL and a blog post:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
If it works you will see your little picture next to the text and if it does not an error on what to do.
Resources for the article:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2539557
This Google Plus community may be useful as well on Google Authorship:
https://plus.google.com/communities/104474428845467390263
Connect to me on Google Plus at http://BrossmanOnGP.com
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