Yes, exactly, how to correctly combine them? More: why is it useful and needful to use several authorship markup and whether it produces any SEO-profit?
Some SEOs dispute about differences of using author and publisher properties, another SEOs advice to use only rel="author"... I say: use all you might use simultaneously! (it's needless to say, don't use something, what doesn't fit your context and could be ranked as e.g. rich snippets spam etc ).
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Friday, 21 March 2014
How to use Picasa-web-albums with your Google+ Page's photos
This article shows how to manage your Google+ Page's photo collection using Picasa-web-albums.
Recently I described how to always use Picasa-web-albums, rather than Google+ photos, to work with the images that are stored in your Google account.
One issue was that there was no way to use PWA to work with the photo's uploaded to a Google+ Page, rather than an individual Google+ profile.
And this was highlighted when Google introduced an auto-enhancement feature which could be disabled using Picasa-web-albums, but not using Google+ Photos.
However a new feature introduced to Google+ Pages means that you can work around this.
Log out of Google / Blogger / Picasa-web-albums (if you log out of one, you are generally removed from the others too).
Log back in again, but this time using your newly created Google+ Page account.
Point your web-browser to Picasa-web-albums, using the do-not-re-direct address: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1
And of course you still have access to the Google+ Photos features, like editing pictures without changing their URL.
In this case, it's that you need to be logged into Google using a different account from the one that's the underlying Page owner. You can use any of the other Google tools (Maps, Blogger, probably even AdSense) - but it will be with the Google account that was created for your page, rather than with your personal account.
And if you manage multiple pages, you will need to think carefully about exactly how each one is set up, and what account you need to use to work with it.
Editing photos on-line using Google+ Photos
How to set up a separate password for your Google+ Page
Stop Google from auto-enhancing your images
Sharing photos from your Google+ Photos albums outside of Google+
One issue was that there was no way to use PWA to work with the photo's uploaded to a Google+ Page, rather than an individual Google+ profile.
And this was highlighted when Google introduced an auto-enhancement feature which could be disabled using Picasa-web-albums, but not using Google+ Photos.
However a new feature introduced to Google+ Pages means that you can work around this.
How to access Google+ Page photo albums using Picasa-web-albums
Set up a separate password for your Google+ Page..Log out of Google / Blogger / Picasa-web-albums (if you log out of one, you are generally removed from the others too).
Log back in again, but this time using your newly created Google+ Page account.
Point your web-browser to Picasa-web-albums, using the do-not-re-direct address: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1
Job Done!
You can now use Picasa-web-albums like normal, including access to features like:- Turning off image auto-correction
- The (far nicer) PWA upload features
- Sharing your photos on any website, not just on Google+
And of course you still have access to the Google+ Photos features, like editing pictures without changing their URL.
Disadvantages / Issues
There's always one!In this case, it's that you need to be logged into Google using a different account from the one that's the underlying Page owner. You can use any of the other Google tools (Maps, Blogger, probably even AdSense) - but it will be with the Google account that was created for your page, rather than with your personal account.
And if you manage multiple pages, you will need to think carefully about exactly how each one is set up, and what account you need to use to work with it.
Related Articles
Understanding Picasa and Picasa-web-albumsEditing photos on-line using Google+ Photos
How to set up a separate password for your Google+ Page
Stop Google from auto-enhancing your images
Sharing photos from your Google+ Photos albums outside of Google+
Thursday, 20 March 2014
How to give a Google+ page its own password and login-name
This article is about setting up a Google+ page so that it is a stand-alone thing, and can log in to Google services without needing your personal Google+ profile.
When Google first introduced Google+ pages, they were totally linked to a Google+ personal profile.
Now, however, you can turn them into stand-alone entitles by giving them a separate login-id (chosen by Google) and password (chosen by you).
This means you can share your Google+ page with other people (eg employees, committee members), without either giving them your Google account password or forcing them to sign up for Google+ themselves.
This is a significant advantage of Google+ over Facebook
Firstly, set up the Google+ page, using an existing Google+ personal account (aka Google+ profile).
If you have logged out since, then log in to your Google account again (by logging into any one of Adsense, Gmail, Blogger, etc, or just by logging in to Google+).
In the top left corner, choose Pages from the Google+ menu.
In the list of pages that is shown, navigate to the Page that you want to work on, and click Manage this Page. This opens the Dashboard for your page.
In the top right corner, click the Google+ Page icon. This used to look like gear-wheel, but now (for me anyway) is a small circle with some of the Page's logo on it.
Choose Settings in the menu box.
When the settings page opens, scroll down until you find the Third-Party Tools. Underneath it, click Set a Password.
You may be asked to re-enter your own Google account password, just to double-check that you are you.
The Google Plus Page password assignment screen will open:
Enter and re-enter the password that you want to use, and click Confirm.
You will then see a confirmation page, telling you that
And you will get an email telling you that:
Understanding Google accounts (this article is currently out of age, focussing on Blogger vs Google Classic)
Google+ now has pages
How to set up a Google+ profile for an existing Blogger account
Now, however, you can turn them into stand-alone entitles by giving them a separate login-id (chosen by Google) and password (chosen by you).
This means you can share your Google+ page with other people (eg employees, committee members), without either giving them your Google account password or forcing them to sign up for Google+ themselves.
This is a significant advantage of Google+ over Facebook
How to set up a separate password for a Google+ page
Firstly, set up the Google+ page, using an existing Google+ personal account (aka Google+ profile).
If you have logged out since, then log in to your Google account again (by logging into any one of Adsense, Gmail, Blogger, etc, or just by logging in to Google+).
In the top left corner, choose Pages from the Google+ menu.
In the list of pages that is shown, navigate to the Page that you want to work on, and click Manage this Page. This opens the Dashboard for your page.
In the top right corner, click the Google+ Page icon. This used to look like gear-wheel, but now (for me anyway) is a small circle with some of the Page's logo on it.
Choose Settings in the menu box.
When the settings page opens, scroll down until you find the Third-Party Tools. Underneath it, click Set a Password.
You may be asked to re-enter your own Google account password, just to double-check that you are you.
The Google Plus Page password assignment screen will open:
Enter and re-enter the password that you want to use, and click Confirm.
You will then see a confirmation page, telling you that
You've set a username and password for [your page]
And you will get an email telling you that:
Your Google+ page [page-name] now has a username (geeky-name-for-your-page-nnnn@pages.plusgoogle.com) and password.
Job done!
You can now log out of your personal Google+ account, and log in to use your Google+ page using its own account, rather than yours.Who will get notifications about the page?
Google's confirmation page says that they will...send notifications and other communication about this page to [the email address of the Google+ account that set up the page]. This page’s username can’t be used to send and receive email.
How to change the password
Other important information in the page-password confirmation email includes how to change the password, and what to do if it wasn't you who set the password.
The links provided are customized, so I'm not going to just copy-and-paste them from my own email. But hopefully I will work out the generic versions and past them here soon.
Related Articles:
Understanding Google accounts (this article is currently out of age, focussing on Blogger vs Google Classic)
Google+ now has pages
How to set up a Google+ profile for an existing Blogger account
Monday, 17 March 2014
Optimizing of Blogger load time
Insert scripts properly into Blogger template's head
There are many how-to's for implementing of third-part scripts into Blogger templates, mostly custom css and javascripts. I personally use Syntaxhighlighter and Google Analytics. But the most how-to's advice users to insert scripts into the template's head. This approach is against all best practices for optimizing of site's load times. If scripts are inserted into the head, the whole site's content will not load and wait till all scripts are fully loaded. This influences negatively the whole site's load time, which, as you know is an important ranking signal. The there is a strong dependency: more scripts in the head - longer load time - poorer ranking.My advice for you (i tested it myself without any issue): insert scripts into the body's bottom, just befor closing tag. If something doesn't work, you could still move scripts one by one into the head.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
How to SEO Joomla? - advanced SEO extensions and workarounds
From all free PHP web CMS i like Joomla more than all other. Why? I can work with it very effectively and get done alone enterprise level projects, which would need e.g. with Drupal or Typo3 about 3 working persons. I started to use Joomla as it was called Mambo and use it still on some projects. With the time it become more and more pleasant to work with - the structure becomes mature and MVC, usability makes fun, extensions repository grows and contains fantastic extensions. And there are too some wonderful tools and workarounds for accomplishing Joomla SEO tasks, speciall OnPage. Some extensions, which i use extensively myself i will introduce below. I will talk only about free or extremely lowcost extensions.
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