I’m curious if it has any significant bump in SERPs for specific post as well as anything you ever write once you are "trusted".

I just got it set up on one site to test out. Brand new domain so want to see if it will help get me indexed, ranked and out of the sandbox if it has author attributes.

I’m also curious if anyone has noticed any increase in clichthrough from the SERPs because of it, I assume from the image maybe.

Not used to have my real name/info connected to the content I put out there though…but it’s usually crap content so that is more the reason

I’m guessing this is the direction google is going to help fight dupe content and associate quality content with specific users. If that is true it will be a whole new system of "gaming the author quality score" (if there even is one lol).

cliffs: search google for "ipad reviews" and notice how many of the higher ranked sites have the author attribute. Does "author" actually benefit rankings though? Hard to say because most of those are big name sites already.

Hmm have never used those. I know Google is big on using them here in the future, prob will see that in future updates.

never used them, but like Komplex said it is becoming bigger to use them

yeah i put it on my main blog. still doesnt really show in SERPs though. Seems as though it has to be a specific topic to show up. Also I havn’t done guest posts or anything on any domains that do have it showing so it is hard to tell. It does give a boost in clickthrough, not sure it has anything to do with rank though.

only thing I have ever seen is that if you link in it GWT to your G+ profile that you can see movement/improvement in SERPs.

I think the real benefit with using the G+ author microdata is that your link on search results "appears" to be more legitimate with a face photo. That really means nothing, of course, but I would imagine the average user would click more on search results with that feature.

@Jester: think of the author attributes as well as any additional microformats you can apply to your site as another technique to add unique characteristics to the content in question.

Like you, I recently did an experiment that I performed for 18 months to measure which elements I could use to allow for greater SEEPs with the same content. I found that using something small, such as the authors Twitter username and a vanity name will provide great results.

As an example I remarketed myself using this strategy and it helped tremendously. Me going by Shat is a whole other story…

One thing is for sure, providing author information will not harm your placement. Just don’t allow it to become unaestheic on the front end.

I’m curious if it has any significant bump in SERPs for specific post as well as anything you ever write once you are "trusted".

I just got it set up on one site to test out. Brand new domain so want to see if it will help get me indexed, ranked and out of the sandbox if it has author attributes.

I’m also curious if anyone has noticed any increase in clichthrough from the SERPs because of it, I assume from the image maybe.

Not used to have my real name/info connected to the content I put out there though…but it’s usually crap content so that is more the reason

I’m guessing this is the direction google is going to help fight dupe content and associate quality content with specific users. If that is true it will be a whole new system of "gaming the author quality score" (if there even is one lol).

cliffs: search google for "ipad reviews" and notice how many of the higher ranked sites have the author attribute. Does "author" actually benefit rankings though? Hard to say because most of those are big name sites already.

Hmm have never used those. I know Google is big on using them here in the future, prob will see that in future updates.

never used them, but like Komplex said it is becoming bigger to use them

yeah i put it on my main blog. still doesnt really show in SERPs though. Seems as though it has to be a specific topic to show up. Also I havn’t done guest posts or anything on any domains that do have it showing so it is hard to tell. It does give a boost in clickthrough, not sure it has anything to do with rank though.

only thing I have ever seen is that if you link in it GWT to your G+ profile that you can see movement/improvement in SERPs.

I think the real benefit with using the G+ author microdata is that your link on search results "appears" to be more legitimate with a face photo. That really means nothing, of course, but I would imagine the average user would click more on search results with that feature.

@Jester: think of the author attributes as well as any additional microformats you can apply to your site as another technique to add unique characteristics to the content in question.

Like you, I recently did an experiment that I performed for 18 months to measure which elements I could use to allow for greater SEEPs with the same content. I found that using something small, such as the authors Twitter username and a vanity name will provide great results.

As an example I remarketed myself using this strategy and it helped tremendously. Me going by Shat is a whole other story…

One thing is for sure, providing author information will not harm your placement. Just don’t allow it to become unaestheic on the front end.