Google Authorship reduced my site click-through

GodMode52

11 years ago

Maybe it's something about your face.

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prince55l 11 years ago

Originally Posted by GodMode52

Maybe it's something about your face.

Maybe you are right, but even at that, the rate in reduction is too high, i was wondering whether it is because it is a tool site and not an article site.
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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by GodMode52

Maybe it's something about your face.

Movie: Liar Liar

Max Reede (little boy): My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside.
Fletcher (Jim Carrey): That's just something ugly people say.

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paulgl

11 years ago

Authorship probably does not even show up for most searches...

BUT....from my own experience, I will never click an item in search
from a google+. I aint looking for that. I'm looking for something,
well, more substantial then joe blow with a plus account.

Were you not satisfied with 4000? That's called killing the golden
goose. You messed with a lot of stuff that will change how your
site acts in SERPs.

The responses about getting a new face are not far off.

Like, maybe removing it. I would imagine people are like me.
They don't know you and certainly don't want some personal
stuff when doing real searches.

Whaddya think google is, facebook?

If I want FB-esque searches, I'll go on FB. But then, I never
search there either.

Paul

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Authorship probably does not even show up for most searches...

BUT....from my own experience, I will never click an item in search
from a google+. I aint looking for that. I'm looking for something,
well, more substantial then joe blow with a plus account.

Were you not satisfied with 4000? That's called killing the golden
goose. You messed with a lot of stuff that will change how your
site acts in SERPs.

The responses about getting a new face are not far off.

Like, maybe removing it. I would imagine people are like me.
They don't know you and certainly don't want some personal
stuff when doing real searches.

Whaddya think google is, facebook?

If I want FB-esque searches, I'll go on FB. But then, I never
search there either.

Paul

Sorry Paul, but I think you are off on this. Every case I have tried or witnessed of adding authorship to a listing has caused an increase of at least 10% in traffic. In some cases it has exceeded 25%.

In one case, the site dropped 2 spots in the rankings from #4 to #6, and saw an INCREASE in traffic.

Authorship makes the listing standout in the SERP. It draws peoples eyes. It's simple marketing. I do not believe it turns people off at all in the way you describe. In fact, I would bet that 99% of Google's users have no freaking clue that it has anything to do with Google+.

Rather than a faceless, emotionless listing, people see what they believe to be a real life person behind the information they are searching for.

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paulgl 11 years ago

Well, I can't say I search for things that people do here,
but point taken.

But anytime someone is not satisfied, and messes with SERPs,
you are probably messing with the wrong thing.

But cause and effect are sometimes mistaken. Who knows
why the clicks stopped coming?

If sig links are examples, I don't want a google plus article
on buttons. I want a button maker. If I saw a google plus
site, I'd assume it was not a button generator.

Paul
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GodMode52 11 years ago
Originally Posted by yukon

Movie: Liar Liar

Max Reede (little boy): My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside.

Fletcher (Jim Carrey): That's just something ugly people say.
ahahaha I love this man

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Paul Gram

11 years ago

Interesting. I've tested this quite a bit and I've always, 100% had more traffic and click- throughs when having an authorship image.

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dcary13

11 years ago

Solution: Get a new face

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justmoretravel

11 years ago

I think Google is testing something out right now. One of my sites went from having a steady stream of traffic all the way down to zero and their bot stopped indexing my new content. I waited it out and now the traffic is back and the indexing/ranking has resumed.

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prince55l

11 years ago

Originally Posted by justmoretravel

I think Google is testing something out right now. One of my sites went from having a steady stream of traffic all the way down to zero and their bot stopped indexing my new content. I waited it out and now the traffic is back and the indexing/ranking has resumed.

Thats interesting

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run

11 years ago

Yes, the solution is to get a new face. As a regular searcher, when I saw the result that I want but the author seem to be weird and undependable, I'd find another one or click another one even if it is on the 5th -10th position.

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J3thro M

11 years ago

Where can we legally get those fake faces to use? Yeah, I do agree that it has something to do with the face. Better change it and pls do come back and tell us how it goes . . . thanks

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prince55l

11 years ago

Originally Posted by J3thro M

Where can we legally get those fake faces to use? Yeah, I do agree that it has something to do with the face. Better change it and pls do come back and tell us how it goes . . . thanks

Today i have change the face and i will be posting result here later

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softproducts

11 years ago

Same kind of thing happened with me, So I will watching for your Results to implement the same stratergy.

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Dustin Blevins

11 years ago

So you have a tool site marketed to men, it sort of makes sense that they don't want to click the picture of a guy. Maybe put a picture of you with a beautiful lady, or just an image of a lady... Grab their attention with your image!

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badut jenaka

11 years ago

Why don't you just using your website logo?

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Dmreed4311 11 years ago

Originally Posted by badut jenaka

Why don't you just using your website logo?

I tried that and I got an error message "google can not detect a face please try another picture"
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RockNRolla

11 years ago

Oh dear, I recently set up the authorship on my new blog, hope the web isn't repulsed by my face and go elsewhere!

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josephseeley

11 years ago

I've seen this happen for some queries. When people are looking for reviews or general information they love my authorship pictures. When they're looking for technical specifications it's either not a draw, or somewhat negative. (But nothing like a 50% reduction in CTR!)

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justmoretravel

11 years ago

Yeah, it's probably not your face:

If That Was A Google Update You Felt, Google's Not Confirming It

From the above link:

If you look at the various discussion forums, including some like WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help, there is definitely an uptick in discussion around ranking changes. If you look at the Google monitoring tools such as MozCast and SERPs.com, there are clear signs of more fluctuation in the search results this past week than in prior weeks.

If you look in the comments at two posts I made at the Search Engine Roundtable, one on May 9th and the other on May 7th, and totaling about 200 comments – you will see many people claiming either ranking declines or ranking improvements.

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mrgoe

11 years ago

I don't think there's any connection between traffic, authorship or your face.... Just check your keyword trend, maybe it is decreasing

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kilobytestechnologies

11 years ago

even i am facing the same situtation after adding authorship..

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Justin Finkelstein

11 years ago

I would test a new picture if you truly think it is authorship. The key is to just keep testing and testing and testing.

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prince55l

11 years ago

I said i will posting my observation, here is what i noticed
The first site is a tool site, i change face to a sharper picture, traffic increase by 0.5% but still lesser than the original traffic, all Serp keyword ranking are the same no drop in traffic.

traffic from this site are mainly from Africa, Malaysia, singapore

The second site , which i added authorship after i saw a decrease in the first site traffic, show up to 20% increase in traffic.

The second site is also a tool site with traffic mainly from US, canada, Uk .

I think site region traffic and picture play a major role in authorship effect on click through

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mkayius

10 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Sorry Paul, but I think you are off on this. Every case I have tried or witnessed of adding authorship to a listing has caused an increase of at least 10% in traffic. In some cases it has exceeded 25%.

In one case, the site dropped 2 spots in the rankings from #4 to #6, and saw an INCREASE in traffic.

Authorship makes the listing standout in the SERP. It draws peoples eyes. It's simple marketing. I do not believe it turns people off at all in the way you describe. In fact, I would bet that 99% of Google's users have no freaking clue that it has anything to do with Google+.

Rather than a faceless, emotionless listing, people see what they believe to be a real life person behind the information they are searching for.

Originally Posted by prince55l

I said i will posting my observation, here is what i noticed
The first site is a tool site, i change face to a sharper picture, traffic increase by 0.5% but still lesser than the original traffic, all Serp keyword ranking are the same no drop in traffic.

traffic from this site are mainly from Africa, Malaysia, singapore

The second site , which i added authorship after i saw a decrease in the first site traffic, show up to 20% increase in traffic.

The second site is also a tool site with traffic mainly from US, canada, Uk .

I think site region traffic and picture play a major role in authorship effect on click through

After I`ve made the proper changes for authorship to my website, how much time does it take to see the proper changes in our traffic as well?

I`ve red that some of you guys saw an increase in traffic after these changes. I was wondering how time does it take?

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