Wednesday Words: Google Authorship

Today's word has to do with Google+ and ways to identify yourself with content you create elsewhere - whether it's on another website, a website you run or elsewhere - and that's Google Authorship.

Google Authorship allows you to link content you create with your Google+ profile.  If you set up Google Authorship correctly, your Google+ profile picture will appear in Google search results next to any content published online that is written by you.

A bonus to using Google Authorship: Google's search algorithms ranks content from leaders and experts higher so using Google Authorship is a way to boost your rankings.

Wednesday Words are a series of definitions released on Wednesday each week regarding a word found specific to Facebook's social media platform, or may be a generic word dealing with social media. These definitions are to help provide you with a better understanding of common and uncommon terms associated with Facebook and social media. You can find all the Wednesday Words by clicking on the Wednesday Words tag below.