Only 1 out of every 10 blogs implemented Google Authorship property!

A recent study by Conductor shows that only 9% of technology blogs have fully implemented the authorship, rel=author, attribute fully on their site. That is less than 1 out of every 10 blogs.

This is somewhat shocking because:

* These are technology blogs that should know about the feature and

* It is shown to increase the click through rate from the Google search results to the web site. A higher click through rate leads to more ad impressions, which leads to more revenue for these technology blogs.

We’ve seen reports of authorship increasing click through rate by 30% to 150% or more.

The survey found 9% have ‘completely’ implemented rel=author by both adding the tag to their website and pointing to the author’s Google + account. An additional 3% had implemented the rel=author tag, but ultimately did not link to the author’s Google+ account.