XF 1.1 Google Plus linking?

[phaze3131]

Hey guys,

Can I link my google plus profile to forum to show up in google searches?

Just like this one:

I know it works with blogs but not sure with a forum or xenforo

Saw the instruction and did that but not sure if possible with forum
https://plus.google.com/authorship

 

[Jeremy]

I haven't seen it done, but have you attempted the instructions? It may be against their ToS somewhere or not since they require "By [Name]" on every page, and if you claim authorship and really don't write it, Google may be against it.

 

[optrex]

If you have a google+ account with the same avatar as your forum login then it should work by pushing the RSS feed of your forum to your google+ page.
As long as you are the topic starter - it picks up the avatar of whoever started the topic so no problems with you claiming ownership

 

[phaze3131]

I haven't seen it done, but have you attempted the instructions? It may be against their ToS somewhere or not since they require "By [Name]" on every page, and if you claim authorship and really don't write it, Google may be against it.

Yea, true.. I did, but did not show up when I did a search.

I'm trying to figure out how. Maybe I can add "By [Name]" on each of my post. I don't know. I just want that to show on news that I post on forum, not normal threads.

 

[phaze3131]

If you have a google+ account with the same avatar as your forum login then it should work by pushing the RSS feed of your forum to your google+ page.
As long as you are the topic starter - it picks up the avatar of whoever started the topic so no problems with you claiming ownership

Interesting.. How do I push myRSS feed to my google + profile?

 

[optrex]

hootsuite, should do it

 

[phaze3131]

hootsuite, should do it

thanks. looks like there's a fee.

you are sure that this can be done, right?

 

[Mike Edge]

thanks. looks like there's a fee.

you are sure that this can be done, right?

Hootsuite has a 30 day free trial to test it out.

 

[phaze3131]

Hootsuite has a 30 day free trial to test it out.

ok cool.. thanks! will give it a try.

 

[optrex]

yeah, look at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105250137525898057294/ and you can see the originators avatar in the posts, so when google indexes it and sees them, if they use the picture in a google+ profile it will attribute to them

 

[oman]

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/8thos-google-authorship.1249/

 

[phaze3131]

There we go! Thank you!