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> Add Google authorship information to your online content I can't find the reference, but I remember reading here on HN that someone investigating a large dro
by muxxa 13y ago
> Add Google authorship information to your online content
I can't find the reference, but I remember reading here on HN that someone investigating a large drop in traffic to pages with #1 organic rankings traced it back to the profile photo that got added to pages with authorship attribution. There didn't seem to be a traffic drop on pages with #2 or #3 etc., so the author came to the conclusion that the profile thumbnail was causing their listing to be mistaken for an ad.
Anyone remember that article?
- kreitje 13y agoI do. I believe the person had the authorship stuff on their product pages. To me it looked like a blog post from the search result but by actually reading the headline you could see that it wasn't. Here is the article you are referencing: http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreased-our-traffic-by-90/ http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreas...
- Matt_Cutts 13y agoI do remember that article, and here's my debunking of that claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793803 The short version is that the site was affected by Google's Penguin webspam algorithm. It had nothing whatsoever to do with authorship.