Emily Leary's Communications - Latest Comments

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Mum2babyinsomniac — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:44:26 -0000

I've finally done it! Thanks so much for this and your help x

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Emily O — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:19:30 -0000

Thanks for a very useful post, I can't get this to work with my theme at the mo : ( Will try a few different ways this evening, cleatly something which needs a bit of time. gah

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Helen at Actually Mummy — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:14:41 -0000

My Rich snippets verification says "Publisher Markup" rather than Author. Does that matter?

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Helen at Actually Mummy — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:07:28 -0000

Hi Emily, do you know if this process works for a G+ page or is it just profiles? I have my blog linking to my page as I don't want to overtly put my own profile on there. Great work btw

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Sarah Arrow — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:53:07 -0000

I did this last year (it was a lot more steps then) and I didn't have to touch any php, so that must be a new thing. Remember though, when you switch themes you have to check all the snippets are in the right place, because if you lose one in the move you have to start all over again.

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

liveotherwise — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:32:57 -0000

Can't see article link. A Technorati claim is a one off post that you can delete after. This is rather more widespread. Imagine, if Technorati, Stumbleupon, Facebook, twitter all decided they wanted this kind of author Brigadoon our blogs would collapse under the weight. I think I'll skip for now.

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Emma — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:52:55 -0000

whoo hoo. I did the same as Tasha and didn't need to edit the php! thanks Emily. xx

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Tasha Goddard — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:33:14 -0000

Done. I didn't need to edit the php - perhaps because my theme already gets the information from the user data, but I did amend the user data to include a direct link to the about page under the Website field (in Contact info). Now I need to sort it for the business blog, too. And I might just get round to dying my hair and posting a new picture, if my picture's going to start showing up all over the place!

Thanks for this. Useful little tutorial.

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Cat — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:40:26 -0000

Ah, obviously that didn't work, I'll try again with some *
Posted on *?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?* by *?php the_author_posts_link() ?* in *?php the_category(', '); ?*

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Cat — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:37:44 -0000

I think I might have found the right bit. It says:
Posted on by in
I guess that middle line is the relevant bit but not sure which bits to take out or leave when I put in the link. Does the '?php' and the '() ?' stay?

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Emily — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:12:00 -0000

Thanks that's a great point - I've added that to the post.

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Cat — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:46:13 -0000

Thanks for this Emily. I was going quite well until I couldn't find the right template to alter which I guess is down to my choice of theme but I managed everything else and after a bit of digging I think I have managed to verify ownership via my email. If you have an email with the domain name of your blog you can add it on the Rich Snippets Testing Tool page and it gets added to your profile and verified by google.

Re: Back to agency life…and over to Lava PR

NikoCasinos — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:41:52 -0000

I wish you success in your new/old way. I know that PR life are not easy...

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

Emily — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:27:19 -0000

I understand your concerns. As far as I can tell, all you're really doing is verifying with Google that your G+ profile and your blog are owned by you - you're not adding any cookies or anything that gives Google additional access to your blog - just similar to the Technorati verification process, really.

Obviously I'm only just implementing it now, so I can't say yet from personal experience that it works to improve how high up an article ranks in search results, but here’s an article on author rank and why it’s important.

Thanks for commenting :)

Re: How to verify authorship of your blog with Google and benefit from author rank (SEO)

liveotherwise — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:16:54 -0000

I'm not sure I want to give google that kind of involvement in my blog! What are the benefits supposed to be?

Re: Have you got #Kred?

David Bennett — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:24:56 -0000

Dear Kred, Why is it then when I first log in and the overlay appears, it says my level is 651 and that my outreach score is 2. But when I dismiss that overlay/popover and look at the stats, it says my score is 651 but that my outreach score is 6?

Re: Have you got #Kred?

Shawn Roberts — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:19:26 -0000

Emily, this is Shawn from Kred. Thanks for your supportive post. Can't wait to see your interview with Andrew!
Cheers,
Shawn

Re: How to be consistent on Twitter: Buffer

Emily — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:32:42 -0000

That's great to hear, James! Thanks for taking the time to comment :)

Re: How to be consistent on Twitter: Buffer

Jaime Pereira — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:31:30 -0000

Thanks for the great post Emily, I really had no clue how to make the best use of buffer, you set me in the right track..

Re: 27 stunning visual ads for creative inspiration

Strange — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:56:36 -0000

I think it's to say that coke doesn't absorb air pollutants?

Re: 27 stunning visual ads for creative inspiration

Emily — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:52:55 -0000

Good observation, Dave. I wonder if they noticed that before going with it.

Re: 27 stunning visual ads for creative inspiration

Dave Kliman — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:41:27 -0000

notice how on the coke billboard, the only part that is dead is where the bottle is. that's apt symbolism and irony right there.

Re: I’ve joined the Social Media Week Global Editorial Team

Petya N. Georgieva — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:57:57 -0000

Quite interesting list of cities. And London and New York are not included? I'm surprised!
Looking forward for your posts regarding SMW.

Re: The five most useful Google+ write-ups from comms pros

Emily — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:22:25 -0000

Thanks Claire - I'm enjoying experimenting with it, and watching how others do so, but clearly it's very early days before the true applications for brands and their marketers are realised.

Re: The five most useful Google+ write-ups from comms pros

Claire Jarrett — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:52:36 -0000

Hadn't really taken a proper look until now-thanks for the great links, it's looking a bit clearer now. I certainly won't be signing up for a while yet!