Tom Rusling is the General Manager at_iAcquire, a content marketing agency with offices in New York, San Diego and Phoenix._ This year, Google Authorship_will truly take_hold and begin to reshape the search landscape. With the bridge that it provides across Google’s products and services, Google+ has outgrown its social network pants and now serves as a platform for authors to verify their contributions to a website domain. On the online publishing side, the “rel=author”_markup language_enables publishers to add an author’s Google+ profile code to a published work and thus confirm who authored the piece. Now Google not only knows where...

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