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How set up Google Authorship for your Real Estate website

By Katrina Benton

Real Estate Agent with Come Home Inc License #16564

January 21, 2014 12:25 PM

How to set up Google Authorship for your Real Estate website

If you would like your photo appear next to your site in google search results you should definitely set up Google Authorship for your Real Estate website.

It will take just a few minutes to learn how to set up Google Authorship for your Real Estate Website. This will help your website to rank on google, maximize exposure for your listings, and drive consumers to your Real Estate website.

Sign in to Google Plus

If you do not have a Google Plus profile set up, you can do so at plus.google.com in a few minutes. Be sure to add a profile picture of your face and not a logo to your profile. Once you have signed in, click on the About tab of your profile.

Scroll down to the contributor to section and click Edit. This section can be found between the Other Profiles and the Links sections.

Add your Real Estate Website to the Contributor to section

When you click Edit, a menu will pop open and you can click Add Custom Link. Your screen should look like this:

Type the name of your website into the Label section and your full website address example http://www.homefindersoftexas.com into the URL section. Make sure the dropdown menu to the right says Current Contributor and press Save.

Review your About section of your Google Plus profile.

Your website should now appear on your Google Plus profile page.

Add a link to your Google Plus profile on your Real Estate Website

This can be done by editing your website. I use Business Suite by Market Leader to host and edit my website. If you are interested in learning more about this system, feel free to email me!

Log into the administrative side of your Real Estate Website

1. Click on the Admin Tab

2. Click on the Website Tab

3. Click on Main Text in the Left Column to edit the main page of your site.

4. Insert a Google Plus icon by clicking on the photo icon in the editor. If you are using a Market Leader website, You can use the Image URL:

http://images.marketleader.com/Vision/socialmedia/small/GooglePlus.png

5. Link to your Google Plus profile by clicking on the Link icon in the editor.

6. Click the Save button.

Create a link to your Google+ profile from your webpage, like this:
```
  Google
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Replace [profile_url] with the your Google+ profile URL, like this:
```
  Google
```
Your link must contain the ?rel=author parameter. If it's missing, Google won't be able to associate your content with your Google+ profile.
Add a reciprocal link back from your profile to the site(s) you just updated.
1. Edit the Contributor To section.
2. In the dialog that appears, click Add custom link, and then enter the website URL.
3. If you want, click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.
4. Click Save.

FINAL STEP: Visit https://plus.google.com/authorship and verify your email address.

You are done! When your website appears on google your Google Plus profile picture will appear next to the results.

Thank you for reading about how to set up Google Authorship for your Real Estate website!

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Laura Andersen

Keller Williams Realty Partners ~ 678.462.1191 agentandersen@gmail.com - Woodstock, GA

A HomeSOLD Name (678)462-1191 Woodstock, Georgia

Katrina, I'm sure you know that you are featured in many of the seminars for Active Rain as Rainmaker that does things right on Active Rain. You are one of the reasons why I joined this week to Active Rain.

Mar 06, 2014 11:07 PM

Stacey Williams

Alpharetta, GA

Experienced Metro Atlanta Real Estate Agent

Hi Katrina, Thanks, I DID IT!

Mar 07, 2014 02:50 AM

Kathy Smiley

Rodeo Realty ~ Fine Estates Westlake Village - Newbury Park, CA

"Real Estate results that make YOU smile!"

Thanks so much for the info! I'm going to go through and do it right now! I always wondered how others were able to have such great information on their google searches, now I know!

Mar 07, 2014 04:32 AM

Larry Thompson

Sierra Pacific Mortgage - Knoxville, TN

Great post Katrina! There are many moving pieces with Social Media that all tie together. Google+ is a great place to start since it is a major hub for search. Thanks!

Mar 07, 2014 07:08 PM

Anonymous

Judy

Thanks! Very informative!

Mar 08, 2014 11:41 AM

#102

Cheryl Ritchie

RE/MAX Leading Edge www.GoldenResults.com - Huntingtown, MD

Southern Maryland 301-980-7566

I need to follow these instructions and do this! Thanks for the steps!

Mar 20, 2014 05:26 PM

Jeff Fisher

PureWest Real Estate - Whitefish, MT

PUREWEST REAL ESTATE/Christies

I emailed this to myself to try to do this! Thanks once again for an important tip to enhance our web presence. Very helpful.

Mar 21, 2014 12:15 AM

Sabrina Solesbee

Solesbee Group - Laguna Beach, CA

Sabrina Solesbee

Nice easy to follow instructions!! Thanks for the walk through.

Mar 21, 2014 11:22 AM

NK Sharma Group

Savitry Greens

Google authorship is great way to make assure this is your article or content.

Mar 21, 2014 07:03 PM

Nelson Carrillo

Real Estate eBroker, Inc. - Phone: (619) 940-6560 - Bonita, CA

South San Diego, CA Homes For Sale

Thank you so much for sharing. I had set up google authorship a while back and my name and photo appeared on search results. right now its just my name and my photo is gone. I will try to redo this following your steps and hopefully my pic comes back on the results again. Thanks for posting!

Mar 24, 2014 07:31 AM

Connie Harvey

Pilkerton Realtors - Brentwood, TN

Realtor - Nashville TN Real Estate

Glad I saw this since it's part of my homework!

Apr 04, 2014 05:42 AM

Tammie White, Broker

Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN

Franklin TN Homes for Sale

I did set my authorship up for my website but my beautiful photo isn't showing up. I must have done something wrong. Will go back and check this out.

Apr 04, 2014 01:33 PM

Anonymous

Esmeralda Lira

Thanks Katrina, I was able to do it with your instructions. :)

May 06, 2014 12:00 PM

#110

Thomas J. Nelson, REALTOR ® e-Pro CRS RCS-D Vets

Big Block Realty 858.232.8722 - La Jolla, CA

CEO of Vision Drive Realty - Coastal San Diego

Thank you for the help with this. Great info & pretty easy to set up. It's amazing how much there is to learn about our online presence!

May 25, 2014 07:08 AM

Mary Cruz & Team

Global Home Brokers - Seattle, WA

Real Estate Professionals

You rock Katrina! Thanks for helping us out here, very easy to follow and got my G+ authorship verified in no-time!

Jun 03, 2014 04:54 AM

Tracy Oliva

West USA Realty - Arizona - Fountain Hills, AZ

The Oliva Team Arizona Agents

Good Morning and this is some great Info for all, Great post, keep up the good work and good luck with your business, E

Jun 03, 2014 10:42 PM

Heidi Hovatter - Sonora & Twain Harte

Century 21 Wildwood - Selling Homes and Cabins in Tuolumne County - Sonora, CA

Heidi The Home Hunter

Thanks for this information. Just curious if you have your "Contributor To" publlic or not? This information really helped me.

Jun 04, 2014 07:48 AM

Rod Pierson

Wilson Realty Inc - Redding, CA

Northern California - An Agent you can trust

Katrina, I don't know why I put this off for such a long time, I found your link and realized I had already signed up on Google Plue, loaded my photo and added the custom link, I haven't checked on the search engine to see if the photo is there, but with your precise instructions made it easy, almost too easy where I could have thought I completed the procedure and maybe didn't.

I looked at Market Leader for a while, and ended up with Real Geeks, like many of the features, would like to have the best of both worlds. I am not sure exactly what the second part of your instructions were since it pertained to your Market Leader site.

Thank you for your post...

Jun 09, 2014 09:16 AM

Susan Gaffney

RE/MAX Premier Realty - Irvine, CA

Thank you! Very well done, and I appreciate that!

Susan

Jun 10, 2014 06:29 AM

Ron Dobrosielski

Keller Williams Realty - Beverly, MA

I couldn't figure out how to do the last steps very confused.

6. Click the Save button. I did this. The rest of this didn't make any sense to me.

Create a link to your Google+ profile from your webpage, like this:
```
  Google
```
Replace [profile_url] with the your Google+ profile URL, like this:
```
  Google
```
Your link must contain the ?rel=author parameter. If it's missing, Google won't be able to associate your content with your Google+ profile.
Add a reciprocal link back from your profile to the site(s) you just updated.
1. Edit the Contributor To section.
2. In the dialog that appears, click Add custom link, and then enter the website URL.
3. If you want, click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.
4. Click Save.