Google has announced how the authorship markup have ended and they include permanently shut this along. Not enough adoption with the experts directed down to the closure of the Google Authorship Markup.

1. Google Has Ditched The Authorship
Markup!
Will It Affect PageRank?

2. All of a sudden, Google has announced that the authorship
markup days are gone and that they have permanently closed
it down.

3. This was followed by the dropping out of authorship reporting
in Webmaster Tools. Now, everything that was related to
Google Authorship has been removed.

4. Why Authorship Has Been Removed?
The Google Authorship was leveled not for the public, but for
the experts, and according to John Mueller, lack of adoption by
the experts led down to the closure of the Google Authorship
Markup.

5. How are you affected by the drop in
the Authorship?
However, it is quite evident now that when you cross-refer your
site and the Google+ profile with the Google authorship markup
code, it will not show the images next to the write-ups.

6. Is Author Rank affected by the drop
in Authorship?
Author rank is completely different for the idea of Google
Authorship. Your Author Rank is dependent on how Google
alters the ranking of a page on the basis of the writer or the
authority of the writer.

7. How Google+ will be affected by the
close down of Authorship?
It was mandatory for all businesses to be present on Google+ in
order to get their high quality content published with the author
image. It could be quite tough for Google+ to stand alone on its
own advantages.

8. John Mueller’s Statement On The
Removal Of Authorship.
“It’s also worth mentioning that Search users will still see
Google+ posts from friends and pages when they’re relevant to
the query — both in the main results, and on the right-hand side.
Today’s authorship change doesn’t impact these social
features.”

9. Conclusion
It is still worthy having your content shared
through the +1 button as you get more credibility
on having the content shared on Google+.
Google+ will still continue to rank on some of the
portions of the Google search results page.

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