Google Authorship is set to play an important role in the coming years. Metrics like author rank will work as one of the major factors for ranking web pages. The infographic shared below displays some facts behind author rank and authorship. As per the infographic, the factors that impact the agent rank or author rank are given below:
1- Connection with other authors
2- Engagement on Google Plus
3- Number and quality of Plus one shares and comments.
4- Authority on other social platforms.
5- External engagement
6- Inbound links
7- Comments
8- Page Rank of individual pages written by the author
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