How to Show Your Picture and Profile in Google Search Results

Every time you search for info on Google you must have seen those Author pictures appearing in your search results. It's really an awesome way to make people know about your work and contribution on the Internet. I really wanted to make my profile and picture appear in Google search results, so I followed some simple steps and here's what I got :

                       

This Information appearing in search results is Known as the Authorship Information on Google+. So the pre-requisites for the Authorship info to appear in search results are :

1. You must be Author/Contributor/Admin to a Website/Blog.
2. You must have a Google+ profile(with a good photo!)

If you satisfy the above two requisites then let's get your picture in search results through this simple step :

Linking Your Content To Your Google+ profile
A. Create a Link to your Google+ profile from your Webpage.
 
    You can do that by including "By Yourname" to every post You write as Author.
    And the "Yourname" text must be a link to your Google+ profile in the following format:

                                        "[profile_url]?rel=author"

Replace the "profile_url" part with your Google+ profile URL which should be like -
                               
                             "https://plus.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

To get your Google+ profile URL go to your Google+ profile and copy the URL from browser's address bar :

                     

* Remember to include the "rel=author" attribute without which the Googlebot won't be able to recognize your Authorship.

                                 So "Yourname" must have a link like :

                   https://plus.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?rel=author                                                                                                  Or
       <a href="https://plus.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?rel=author">Yourname</a>

B. Add a reciprocal link to your Webpage from Your Google+ profile.

•   Go to your Google+ profile and click Edit profile.
•  Edit the Contributor To section.
•  In the dialog that appears, click Add custom link, and then enter your website URL.
•  If you want, click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.
•  Click Save. 

       
So you are done with your part and now it's Google's turn to index and link up your Website and Google+ Profile. But, as the Google support says - Google doesn't guarantee to show author information in Google Web Search results.
Still if You have a Website/Blog with fairly good traffic with sufficient amount of posts as author you are sure to appear in Search results.
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