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Have you seen that some of the search results have a profile picture next to them? The picture which you see in search results adjacent to the content comes from the author’s Google+ profile. By seeing your name and picture next to the blog post, readers know that the article has been written by you. The photo is much like a sanction of approval from Google and it shows that you’ve verified your authorship on Google.
Bloggers around the world have started using this to gain popularity and authority on Google. This is a nice move by Google due to which lot of content developers and bloggers have started using Google plus. Before we see how to get your Google+ profile image in search results, let’s see why Google authorship is so important.

Why To Use Google Authorship?

Better Click-Rates: Your photo will be displayed in the search results corresponding to your article. Hence your site can have higher CTR(Click Through Rate), as readers think that the article is more reliable.
Improves your online presence: Google Authorship confirms you as an expertise in your relevant field and therefore increases the traffic to your other blog posts.
Increases your followers on Google+: When the readers find your article to be helpful, they will probably click on your photo to know more about you and may add you to their Google+ circles.
There are several ways to get your name and picture displayed on search results next to your content but it can get a bit difficult if you have multiple authors writing content for your blog. For eg. As of now we have two permanent authors for this blog. One is myself Amit Nishad and other is Harshad Ghodke. This means that Google should display my picture in front of posts written by me and Harshad’s picture in front of posts written by Harshad. Like we said there are several ways to achieve this, the easiest way to do this is by having the right information in your WordPress user profile. Now, let’s see how do we implement Google Plus authorship on our blog.

How To add Google+ Authorship to your blog?

In order to add the authorship to your site, you first need to connect to your Google+ account and ensure that all the details have been filled out.
Steps to link your Google+ account to your blog:
1. Click on “About” menu
2. Scroll down to find “Contributor to” & click on “Add custom link”
3. Enter the URL & name of your blog
Next step, you need to add your Google Plus link to your WordPress blog.
1. Login to the admin panel of your WordPress blog
2. Click on “All Users” under “Users” menu
3. Select the user and click on “Edit” link
4. Add your Google+ profile URL in the text box corresponding to “Google+” field. Below
Please note that you need to do this for all authors/users on your WordPress blog.
You can test whether your picture is being displayed by going to the Google rich snippets testing tool. Here is a screenshot of how articles on this blog look like on Google search.


Your search results along with the picture might not be shown immediately on Google search. Google will take some time and hopefully your authorship will be displayed when Google indexes your website or blog again.

This week we take a look at Weebly which offers easiest yet powerful way to create free websites and blogs. If you are looking for a good and free website building platform to make your own website, Weebly can help you out. With a very little or no technical knowledge you can accomplish your goals at Weebly.

you are looking for a good and free website building platform to make your own website, Weebly can help you out. With a very little technical knowledge you can accomplish your goals at Weebly.

Benefits of making a website on Weebly

• Free and simple: Weebly offers a free web hosting with unlimited bandwidth and space along with the free website building platform. Making a website on Weebly costs you absolutely nothing. They don’t have number excessive number of tools and a complicated system but a simple and user-friendly interface to make a website in less than an hour. The drag & drop feature of Weebly makes it extremely simple to create a powerful and professional website without any technical skills required.
• Themes and design: Weebly provides more than 100 professional themes to design your websites. Weebly allows the user to modify the theme and layout completely according which include changing text fonts, text sizes and text color. Users having technical knowledge of coding and web designing can also edit the CSS and HTML of the website from the Advanced Theme Editor option.
• Hosting features: Weebly provides stores all websites on their powerful servers located in two data center in the United States. They provide a better uptime, reliability and response time as compared to the other web hosting services around.
• Search engine optimization: Optimizing your website for search engines is quite simple in Weebly by adding Meta description, Meta tag and Alt text.
• Free Domain Name: Users can also get a free sub-domain for your website on Weebly and get the URL as “Yourdomain.weebly.com”. It will get ranked fast in the search engine for the authority Weebly has.
• Track your traffic: With traffic tracking feature of Weebly you can easily track the traffic of your website along with the keywords used, landing pages and traffic sources. You can also add your Google analytics codes in your website.
• No Forced advertising: Weebly don’t force advertising on your website; no banner advertisements, no pop-ups, no pop-unders.
• E-commerce Features: Weebly supports the e-commerce website and you can build your online store with a list of products you want to sell off. Weebly supports the most popular payment gateways like PayPal and Google Checkout.
• Automatic Mobile Sites: You can also create a mobile optimized version of your website automatically with Weebly.
• Password-protected pages: You can enable the password protection for your individual WebPages here stopping unauthorized visitors.
• Full HTML/CSS Control: Weebly provide you full control over the HTML and CSS of your website theme which helps you customizing your website completely via built-in theme editor.

The paid plans of Weebly consist of two tiers: Starter and Pro. The Starter plan is priced at $3.29 and lets you customize your website completely. The Pro plan is priced at $6.63 per month and includes some advanced features like header slide shows, search and audio/video players.

Are you spending long hours for searching animated GIF images of your choice? If yes, then you don’t need to put so much of afford on that again. Google has rolled out new filters to image search results which will allow you to search for GIF animated images only. Let’s see how to search GIF animated images in Google.
Click on “Search tool” and choose “animated” under “any type” dropdown menu to get the list of GIF animated images. You can also keep image background as transparent by selecting “transparent” under the color filter.


Below is one of the animated GIF image of “Google” from search results:
We think that this update from Google is a really beneficial for those who are looking for animated GIF images as per their requirement.The transparent image feature by Google can also be handy for those who still are using other image editing software which is time consuming for them.
What are your thoughts on this new feature added by Google in the image search results?