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Hi everybody is Ileane from Basic Blog Tips
Have you noticed that Google authorship for YouTube videos
has vanished? Yyes
Google authorship is when you search for something on Google
and you see the person's picture next to the search results
you'll also see a link to their Google+ profile
as well as how many people have them in circles on Google+
Now they say that according to statistics
you have a higher chance of your article being
clicked on if you have that Google authorship
people see your picture they identify with it
automatically your listing looks more interesting than anything else on the
page
and so people will click on your
listing well a few months ago I happen to take a screenshot
of my Google authorship on this video
Notice that it's the YouTube video
here's my picture this was a link
and this also was a link to
more by Ileane Smith. But today if I do that same search
on Google. I asked for videos
and look here's that same video and there's no authorship
now it does say that is uploaded by me but that's not
a clickable link. Here's another example
I just did a search for How to rank on YouTube
and you can see that everyone here
that is listed with the YouTube video
does not have their authorship
One last thing I wanna show you - for Google authorship
for anything you can always go over to your Google
Webmaster Tools account and look in the "LABS" section
under Author stats
and it will show you a listing of things that you have Authorship on
for example these are some
posts from my blog that I have authorship for. Now let me just show you that search
in Google very quickly
so if I search for "Schedule Youtube uploads"
I scroll down a bit and I see
here's my post with my name and the link
and the Google authorship. Now go back to webmaster tools
and go up to the top where there's filters. You'll see that you can
choose different things, Image, Mobile
Video or Web. So lets choose
Video. And
you'll see that Google is telling me I have
authorship for these videos
and I'm actually getting impressions and clicks
however there really is no authorship because
the point of authorship is that your image is going to show up
The good thing is
we can take advantage of our YouTube thumbnails
by being sure to include an image there,
and hopefully that will help with your click-throughs.
Not sure why Google changed their
outlook on having thumbnails for YouTube videos
but I just wanted to let you know. If anything changes
I'll make a new video. Thanks for joining me
be sure to subscribe and I'll talk to you soon
Peace