Google Authorship and rel=author is no more
The Way of the Web
AUGUST 29, 2014
One of the main benefits of signing up for a Google+ profile as a writer, blogger and author has been the Google Authorship program, which began back in 2011 with the launch of Google’s own social network. So for the time being, we’d recommend that if you have Authorship in place, you don’t rush to remove it.
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