I am surprised to see the rollback of Google's new authorship algorithm

[Knightrider]

GOOGLE have decided to remove images and Google+ count from organic search results. Is it going to effect your website? I am not sure about mine. Why Google is doing this? To increase the CTR of The promotional ads rather than organic search results?:bash:

 

[hoangvu]

loL I don't know this happened when? I have a google+ page with decent followers, my site decreased a bit traffic in these day, by this authorship algorithm?

Can you give more details about Google's new authorship algorithm?

 

[Knightrider]

Knightrider

Google decided to drop author's image and their Google+ count from organic search results. Author's name will be displayed. Google made this announcement yesterday.

 

[sanusense]

That's ridicoulous for those who worked hard to achieve this. Again spammy authors will take over the SERPs. Great Decision !! Huh

 

[Knightrider]

This is a set back for those authors who have their post in bottom half of first page.

 

[vaneetagoswami]

vaneetagoswami

Agreed Indeed they spend hard effort to achieve good rank and Google wash everything in minutes..

 

[NicholasM]

Most of the times an images come with each search query about author of pages.. This always looks very unprofessional and irritating, I think so that's why Google is now removing authorship from Search results. Don't worry about the rankings of your pages as it will remain same this is just a visual update of search results not algorithmic change of SERP.

 

[LanceBachmann]

You know more about this by John Mueller updated on this Google+

I’ve been involved since we first started testing authorship markup and displaying it in search results. We've gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we've tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of authorship information. Unfortunately, we've also observed that this information isnt as useful to our users as we’d hoped, and can even distract from those results. With this in mind, we've made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results.

More - https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8