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Set up a Google Authorship profile
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Sign up for a Google plus account here https://plus.google.com/
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I would use a personal gmail or your corporate email (does not have to be a gmail account) because Google has an issue with new phantom accounts being created that spam authorship. If you have an established account it’s best to use that one.
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Make sure you have a clear headshot type photo and upload the picture to your google plus profile
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Make sure a byline containing your name appears on each page of your content (for example, "By Steven Levy").
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Make sure your byline name matches the name on your Google+ profile.
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Now go to this page and fill out https://plus.google.com/authorship and fill in your email address.
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More details from Google are here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?expand=option2
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This is the code that gets pasted in the meta area of the website where you publish content.
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<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/###############/" title="CompanyNameHere" />
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/#################/" title="JYourNameHere" />
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