How to set up Google Authorship and get your photo in search results

There are a lot of tutorials out there on how to set up Google Authorship but I thought I’d run over it in this post quickly to save you looking around. I’ve done a video version and a written out version below.

To get your face in the Google search results you need:

1. A Google+ account
2. A snippet of code added to your blog/posts that you author.
3. A link on your Google+ profile back to that blog/those posts.

So you start by getting a Google+ account if you haven’t done so already. Just go here to get started and make sure you think carefully about which email/Google Account that you use as it will be connected to your emails, YouTube Channel, analytics, etc.
Once you’ve done that go to your blog and open up the code for your About page. You need to add a special link back to your Google+ profile from your About page. Actually, it’s just a regular link but with a special element.
The link should look like this:
<a href=”http://YourGoogle+ProfileAddress” rel=”author”>Google +</a> It is really important that you include the re=”author” part of the code as that is what tells Google that you are the author of that content.
Once you’ve done that, head back to your Google+ account and go the the Profile section.
Click Edit Profile and go to the About tab.
Scroll down until you find the Other Profiles are and then Add a Custom Link back to the page where you just added the special author link.
That’s it! After a few days or weeks you should start to see your face appearing in the search results. You can check my Profile to see what it should look like.
If you’ve authored articles in many places you can repeat the process and add links back to the other sites under Contributor To.