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@Odierno851

Paul is right, this is accomplished via the new rel="author" markup offered by Google.

Joost has a great technical write up on the topic but I did want to clarify that you usually need a set of three links.


A link from the content to the author page using rel="author"
A link from the author page to your Google Profile using rel="me"
A link from your Google Profile to your author page using rel="me"


There is actually a streamlined way (with two links) but it seems to be less reliable at this stage, in part because the Rich Snippets Testing Tool had a bug that would produce a false negative.

For more details, including how long it may take from implementation to display, you can visit my own post on How To Implement Rel=Author.

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@Goswami781

Here's how he did it: yoast.com/highlighting-wordpress-authors-search/

To do this, you need to apply the authorship markup Google announced a
couple weeks back. This basically means adding rel="author" to a link
to the authors page on the same domain. My author link for this post,
for instance, looks like this:


<a rel="author" href="http://yoast.com/author/admin/"
title="Posts by Joost de Valk">Joost de Valk</a>


According to this discussion on Google+ they only like real photos though, not cartoons.

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