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Google Authorship Search Listing Blindnes
- johnjlocke 13y agoI know JitBit said that their traffic actually decreased from Google Authorship, but sites that I've used it on don't seem to suffer at all. I'm not sure I believe the argument expressed by many on Hacker News that the picture automatically triggers a thought that it means an advertised link or that it will link to a social media post, because I've never had that thought or had that happen to me, ever. The Authorship has actually been around for a couple of years now, so I'm not sure why people, not just engineers, would think twice about clicking on a SERP with a photo beside it. I think JitBit suffered from using an uncomplimentary profile photo, and nothing more.