Google Authorship Changes, Youtube Fan Funding, eMail SEO Boost, Speedlink 27:2014

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great and productive week! This week, Google’s John Mueller announced that they are making some major changes in how the search results appear around authorship. If you recall, one of the “highlights” of the search listings with authorship was that it showed images and circle counts of the profile associated in Google+. “Mueller said that the click-through behavior on this new less-cluttered design is similar to the previous one.” While the pictures may disappear from the search results it appears that Google will simply feature the author’s name in light grey as shown in this example:

Creator features coming to YouTube

If you are a Youtube creator and have been quite successful with it, you should know that among the many new YouTube features they will soon launch is the so called “Fan Funding”.

Here´s an excerpt of the official announcement.

Fan Funding: Your fans aren’t just watching your videos, they’re also helping support your channel through services like KickStarter, IndieGogo, Patreon and more. We’ll be adding another option for you, where fans will be able to contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any reason. A handful of creators are testing this feature soon on desktop and Android, including Dulce Delight, Fitness Blender, The Healthcare Triage, The King of Random, Soul Pancake, Steve Spangler Science, The Young Turks, and Thug Notes. If you’re interested in trying it on your channel, sign up here.

8 Ways to Use Email Alerts to Boost SEO – Whiteboard Friday

And this week, Rand of Moz walks through some of the best link opportunities which can be discovered by setting up email alerts for various things that are published on the web. He runs through eight types of alerts that you can implement today for improved SEO. Cool!

And as usual, in no particular order: