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kanamekun on May 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%

This is 100% right. A quick confirmation: "John Mu of Google has confirmed that you must have a headshot of yours in order to see your Google Plus avatar in Google’s rich snippet."

source: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/social-media/log...

flaktrak on June 1, 2013 | [–]

In fact I have mug shotted my posts before and if you switch the picture to a picture of something other than a face Google seems to penalize you.

Was an interesting experiment and one that I would like to take further.

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