During the SMX Advanced conference, Gary Illyes stated taht Google has now completely stopped using authorship markup, even for use with in-depth articles. I know what you’re thinking.  For anybody who’s been following Google and this whole business with authorship, we knew Google stopped using it back in August of 2014.  But how can Google just now stop …

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Although Google authorship supposedly “died” back in August of 2014, Gary Illyes of Google said that webmasters and publisher should leave the authorship markup on their page. Despite the fact that Google removed Authorship support last year, it’s surprised that Gary Illyes is telling us that we should be keeping authorship live in the source …

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August 28, 2014 marks a sad day for many as Google ended support for authorship markup (aka rel=author) saying that they weren’t going to look at that data any longer.  Google Authorship was a three year experiment that Google announced back in June 2011. So now that authorship has been dead and gone for seven months …

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