Comments on: Using AuthorRank To Future-Proof Guest Posting

By: Patrick Hathaway

Patrick Hathaway — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:49:47 +0000

Hi Hemendra and thanks for the comment. I agree that one of the factors for Google focusing on this is to encourage usage of their product Google+. But in reality you are only talking about a very small proportion of users who might be incentivised by this. The general population will not care either way.

I agree that other social signals can be considered, but I doubt they would have anything like the power of G+ signals. The main reason for this is the one of identity. With a properly verified account Google KNOW you are the author of a piece of work, rather than simply guessing as they would be for other social networks.

By: Hemendra Kumar Saini

Hemendra Kumar Saini — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:22:41 +0000

thought the author rank can not be measured only by google+ followers. it can be also measured by twitter follower, facebook fans, and social authority site like stumbleupon and reddit fans. but who tracks them, no one. only because of google is searching engine and they are the who control your website traffic, they are giving bait so you can be trapped into people get starting to use google social networking website over others. But one thing to know what people dont like they really dont like. So authorrank on the basis of google+ not alone make you are bad writer.

my thoughts. and no offence to google.

By: Kevin Gallagher

Kevin Gallagher — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:03:31 +0000

I think you are spot on here, A great post. It SEO’s keep going the way they are and trying to promote crappy content Google will de-vaulate it.

By: Patrick Hathaway

Patrick Hathaway — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:08:21 +0000

In reply to Lee Emmons.

Hi Lee,
There is a way round this – get a rel=”author” link to your Google+ profile into the body copy of the article. If you control the html this should be straightforward, then you just need to add a link to the article on your Google+ profile in the contributor section.

Of course, getting this link in naturally may not be that straightforward, but if you get a bio section it is perfectly reasonable to say ‘Connect with me on Google+’ and make Google+ the link. Other than that you’ll have to find creative ways to get the link into your subject!

Good to see that you are taking authorship seriously, you will benefit from it in the future. The other option, when talking to site owners, is simply to ask them to implement authorship markup for guest authors. If you provide them with resources on how to do this and explain the potential benefits to them, you can only strengthen the relationship you have with them. Certainly for blogs in the SEO niche it should be a no brainer.

Thanks,
Patrick

By: Lee Emmons

Lee Emmons — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:48:59 +0000

I’ve linked my Google+ profile on all of the websites that I can get admin backend access to, or have an email address on that domain. I also use My Blog Guest (and really like it) – the only problem is that this is not automatically built into the MBG system. The articles I write for other blogs are very high quality, and ones that I would want to have associated with my AuthorRank.

Is there are way around this, if you don’t have an email address associated with the domain, and don’t have administrative access to the site?