Google Authorship and The Future of Your Reputation

It was just over a year ago that Google started introducing a series of new algorithms which in the past few months have started showing up more in search results.  By now you have probably noticed Google searches showing the picture of a person with a byline containing their name.

The concept behind authorship was for writers to be able to claim their content and to help establish credibility for the articles they have written on-line.  There is still (and always should be) a place for anonymity on the Internet, but with these new authorship tags Google is allowing people to put a name and face to their content in ways we have not seen before.