Displaying Author Photo on Google Search

The number one search tool on the net, the Google has provided blog authors to actually show their pictures on their search engine. You might have searched some keywords and noticed pictures of blog authors' appearing next to search results, and yes when you see picture of author, whether it's your intuition or just curiosity, you will tend to trust that link more, rather than a link without an author snippet. If you have a blog or some constantly updating  news site, you might want to show author picture next to Google search results. Which is a good thing, people love to read an article written by a genuine person. Even if your page is on the bottom of the search result, the picture of you will bring more visitors to your article.How Do I Put my Picture on Google Search If you want your picture to appear in Google search results, you need to a create Google Plus profile, and upload your image, which should be a good recognizable head-shot. When you have photograph and Google+ profile ready, you need to verify authorship of your website by associating it with your profile, there are two ways to do it.  Either you can verify using a Google verified email address or linking your profile to Google Plus profile.

Option 1 : Verify using email address

1. Submit your email address to Google Authorship. Email address should be on same domain as your contents. For example : if I want to verify my email, I would submit somemail@saaraan.com, not [email protected], notice the domain name?
2. And when you publish your articles, you must mention your name clearly as : By Robert Frost or Author : Robert Frost in every page, placing it on sidebar is good option.  Note : Name should exactly match with the name on your Google Plus profile.

Option 2: Link your site contents to Google + Profile

1. This one is fairly easy and reliable method, just point a link to your Google Plus profile like this :
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   <a href="XXXX?rel=author">By Author</a>

   Replace XXXX with your Google Plus profile link, but do not remove 
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   ?rel=author

   parameter. If it's missing, Google won't be able to associate your content with your Google+ profile. Here's how my full URL to Google Plus look like:
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   <a href="https://plus.google.com/114294210195147580398?rel=author">By Saran</a>

2. Now add your site name and URL in your Google plus profile. Click here to go to your Google Profile Page, it should automatically Pop-up a window and take you to "Contributor to" box, where you can add a custom link, or you can click edit your profile and add your site link by clicking Contributor to option:
   
   

Don't forget to preview your links here, this online tool will show you exactly how your links will appear on Google's search results. Once you are done, all you have to do is wait few more days, and your picture & name will start appearing on Google search results. Good luck!