Watch the video on YouTube and follow along with these transcripts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTsDoNYNyPo Google Authorship for individual YouTube videos is gone. Your picture no longer appears in search results. Read the full blog post to find out more about FIVE YOUTUBE SEO MYTHS THAT NEED TO BE EXPOSED http://basicblogtips.com/youtube-seo-myths.html

1. Google Authorship on YouTube Videos Vanished - Video Transcript
Ileane Smith - Basic Blog Tips © 2013
Hi everybody is Ileane from Basic Blog Tips!
Have you noticed that Google Authorship for YouTube videos has vanished?
AUTHORSHIP DEFINED
Yes, Google Authorship is when you search for something on Google and you see the person's picture
next to the search results. You'll also see a link to their Google+ profile as well as - how many people
have them in circles on Google+
Now they say that according to statistics, you have a higher chance of your article being clicked on if you
have that Google Authorship.
People see your picture, they identify with it, automatically your listing looks more interesting than
anything else on the page, and so people will click on your listing. Well a few months ago I happened to
take a screenshot of my Google authorship on this video.
Notice that it's the YouTube video. Here’s my picture, this was a link, and this also was a link to: “More
by Ileane Smith.”

2. Google Authorship on YouTube Videos Vanished - Video Transcript
Ileane Smith - Basic Blog Tips © 2013
But today if I do that same search on Google, I asked for videos and look here's that same video and
there's no authorship. Now, it does say that it’s uploaded by me, but that's not a clickable link.
Here's another example:
I just did a search for “How to Rank on YouTube” and you can see that everyone here that is listed with
the YouTube video does not have their authorship.
One last thing I want to show you - for Google Authorship for anything you can always go over to your
Google Webmaster Tools account and look in the "LABS" section under “Author Stats” and it will show
you a listing of things that you have Authorship on.
For example, these are some posts from my blog that I have authorship for. Now let me just show you
that search in Google very quickly. So if I search for "Schedule YouTube uploads" I scroll down a bit
and I see here's my post with my name and the link and the Google authorship. Now go back to
Webmaster Tools and go up to the top where there's “Filters”.
You'll see that you can choose different things: Image, Mobile, Video or Web. Let’s choose Video. And
you'll see that Google is telling me I have Authorship for these videos and I'm actually getting
impressions and clicks.
However there really is no authorship, because the point of authorship is that your image is going to show
up! The good thing is we can take advantage of our YouTube thumbnails by being sure to include an
image there and hopefully that will help with your click-throughs. Not sure why Google changed their
outlook on having thumbnails for YouTube videos but I just wanted to let you know.
If anything changes, I'll make a new video.
Thanks for joining me, be sure to subscribe and I'll talk to you soon. Peace!
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