How to Show Author Profile Picture in Google Search Result

 

Google webmaster tools introduce an additional features to display author google plus profile picture in google search engine result. Sometime you might have seen a lot of websites and blogs which appears in google search  engine result with author profile thumbnails picture this is why, it just because of new additional features in google webmaster tools. Now you can easily show your own google plus pictures along with all of your web pages, articles that you own on your site.

In this way the author bio data and all information will be shared with throughout the global world and all your visitors will see your image next to every post that you own on site.
Finally in today tutorial i will show you how to display author profile picture in google search results.

How to Show Author Profile Picture next to Google Search results

You will need the following things to show your picture.

1. You have own blog or website.
2. You have Google plus account
3. You must have an about me page on your blog/website. if you dont have create about me page on your site. Just give the name about me, or about us.
4. If you have met all the above requirements then you may follow the below steps.

 How to Add rel author tags in your blog

Step 1:

• On your blog/website header, sidebar or footer add the below code.
• Remember do not remove rel="author" otherwise image will not show.

<a href="https://plus.google.com/103981447874515289812"
  rel="author" target="_blank"> Join me on Google+</a>

• In the given code replace google+Id [103981447874515289812 ] with your own google profile link id.
• Go to your google plus profile and copy the digits from the address bar as given below

• Remember you must change the google plus digital address with your own

Step 2: 

• Now go to about me page and insert this link anywhere you want

<a href="https://plus.google.com/GOOGLE+ ID"
  rel="me" target="_blank"> My Google Profile</a>

• Again replace Google+ID with your own google plus profile id.
• Look into my page how I inserted this link.

Setp 3:


      1:     Now go to google plus profile and click on edit button 

      2:    Check show visibility in searh result if you found this option check this.

      3:    Then Click on the Link area as given below 

    4:       Add your blog home page url to and also your about me page url.
             You can also add facebook and twiter links if you wish.

    5:       Go to  https://plus.google.com/103981447874515289812/plusones

    6:       Click Edit profile

    7:        Check the Show this tab on my profile checkbox

    8:        Upload image to google plus account. if you have already uploaded image on                     google plus acount then no need to upload image. its ok

   9:         Finaly save you account and you are almost done.   

Test How to show Author image in Google search results

Now you will need to see how your image show in search result click here and enter your home page url in the search box and see the result like mine blog see below.

If you done all the steps correctly then you will see the following results  

Summary:

• First of all you will need to add two links on your sites. 1st one is on side bar and 2nd one is in footer area or about me page. you may also use one links only in footer or in sidebar area.
• Replace all the occurance google+ID in the given code with your own google plus profile digital address
• Add your site home page link and about me page links to Google plus.
• Check the show this tab on my profile page.
• Finaly Save you account
• Remember wait at least 10  To 15 days to show your image in Google Search results.