{"id":16819,"date":"2014-06-25T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2014-06-25T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:42:54","slug":"16819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/16819\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorship Photos &#8211; Sayonara, It was nice to know you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are living under an SEO rock or this is the only blog you are reading, John Mueller <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+JohnMueller\/posts\/PDkPdPtjL6j\">announced<\/a> the end of author photos:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #404040;\">We&#8217;ve been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results, in particular creating a better mobile experience and a more consistent design across devices. As a part of this, we&#8217;re simplifying the way authorship is shown in mobile and desktop search results, removing the profile photo and circle count. (Our experiments indicate that click-through behavior on this new less-cluttered design is similar to the previous one.)<\/span><\/em><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #404040;\">For more information on using authorship on pages of your website, check out:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/1408986\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/1408986<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16820\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.47-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-25 at 4.35.47 PM\" width=\"520\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.47-PM.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.47-PM-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>Will become something like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16821\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-25 at 4.35\" width=\"520\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35.jpg 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-25-at-4.35-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are living under an SEO rock or this is the only blog you are reading, John Mueller announced the end of author photos: We&#8217;ve been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results, in particular creating a better mobile experience and a more consistent design across &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16823,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16819\/revisions\/16823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}