Google Removes Authorship Photos and Google+ Circle Counts From Search Results
2014-06-26
Yesterday, Google’s John Muller made an announcement that broke marketers’ hearts: Google Authorship’s about to get a makeover. And it’s not the type of makeover that makes you say “ooo” and “ahh” and “how wonderful” — it’s the kind that could impact your search traffic.
Google’s getting rid of author profile pictures and Google+ circle counts on desktop and mobile search. So search results that used to look like this:
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