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Google brought this out a couple of months ago, and I've been having a play, but yet to see it show up in any results

But the theory is sound. Prove you are the owner of a particular blog, or content on a web page by linking it to your Google Plus profile.

Then in search results, you get a nice piccie of you by your content
Here's an example with Mr Google himself, Matt Cutts

On the top result (or at least when I saw it!) Mr Cutts has his pic to the right hand side of the results.

Social meets search!

Now obviously it stands out, because it's different, but once it's common place, I've no doubt we will tune out. Currently you have to have a head and shoulders shot in your Google Plus profile, so my forum avatars no good, and neither are company logos.

I like it, but Google needs to sort out it's policy for businesses, then I think this will really take off, with familiar logos to the right of content you are looking for. Weather that's a good thing or bad thing for the small website will depend on your viewpoint, but I see a boom for logo designers round the corner

But for the moment, any prolific bloggers have a great chance to not only get your name out there, but now your face!

You can get all the info you need to implement this from the below Google Link:
Author information in search results - Webmaster Tools Help

For wordpress site owners, here's a step by step set of instructions on how to implement it:
rel="author" and rel="me" in WordPress - Yoast

Be interesting to see if anyone has seen any success after implementing the author tag. has it directly related to increased targeted traffic/conversions?

That was a bump and a half

Well I don't think that's too much of an issue, both UK military intelligence laptops have probably been lost in the back of taxis.

My favorite story from Kosovo though was about the Russian troops deployed there, who hadn't been paid for months, and were having to forage for food and steal chickens. Not exactly Tom Clancy is it?

Politically motivated Riots I can understand, it can be how society evolves. But where was the political motivation over this recent disturbance? The initial root cause, ie the shooting seemed to be overlooked, or used as a nice excuse to grab yourself a new Iphone or TV.

Lawlessness and thievery is what it is. There's plenty of good kids out there, wonder what those teenage squaddies who have been through the Afghanistan meat grinder think.

A broken home isn't the best start for anyone, neither's one that reliant on state dependence, or kids that are taught how much they can get out of the system for free, by terminally unemployed parents.

But everyone has a starting place on the grid, Henry may be currently in poll position with his posh accent and private school education, but he'll never have the motivation, passion or drive of Bob who grew up with parents on benefit and wants to better himself, and his future kids.

Do we punish all or forgive though? It's a tough one. In my simple mind, a thief is a thief. I think there's going to be bad feeling whatever course of action is taken, it's times like this where you a re glad to be an arm chair pundit rather than be an MP and have to try and take responsibility of this mess.

So you don't think the likes of facebook produces any traffic?

Trust me it does. It may not be in the league of Google Traffic, but with the advent of the Google Plus 1 network, the definition of social and search engine traffic are starting to get blurred

Options (at least to me) always seemed a bit complicated, just liked the simplicity of buying and selling.

I'm no Nick Leeson, just a part time amateur that likes an occasional punt

Used to play a few years ago, but only got back into it during the 08 crash. I don't think we'll ever see markets like this for a long time.

I doubt the banks will get upto their pre 08 prices, but with RBS currently less than 27p, you should see 50p sometime in the next 12 months, and it's been there a couple of times already in the last 12 months, just misjudged the last one.. dohhh..

I think Lloyds is a better long term bet, and for less than 34p, got to be worth a punt Go on, have a dabble

lol priceless! It's looks like we got all our copper back and some reinforcements this weekend. It's the annual Bulldog Bash where Hells Angels across the country descend on poor old Stratford. I've never seen such a heavy Police presence for the event, obviously must have been considered a possible flash point.

Is funny though, I didn't see a biker under the age of 50, wonder if they have recruiting problems? Should be able to scale down the police presence to a traffic warden and age concern in a few years time


Makes your blood boil! Sounds like you were lucky though.

One I've heard of in Birmingham is the little toe rags turn you over, give you 3 months to get your insurance payout and new kit, then they hit you again

Hmm, maybe it's time to bring back

I think that's the key, good old fashioned family values, and less reliance on the state.

Must admit, it's encouraging by the volume of charges the police are making, and the fast processing of offenders by the courts.

It may cause a short spike and overload an already overloaded system for a while, but the lesson has to be clear that behavior like this can't be tolerated.


Erm, do have a far more controversial plan, we could revisit the age old deportation idea, by exporting all of our offenders. Obviously it's unfair these days to use Australia again, so how about Somalia? A hostile lawless land that's had 10 years of total anarchy, and forgotten by the western world. Sounds perfect

So wondered where all the coppers had gone, you London folk have grabbed them all!

We've even got PCSO's driving round in police cars by themselves! I'm no expert, but I didn't think they could do that, and I didn't think they have any actual police powers?

ahh well, it looked like a good tool

New suggestions on a postcard

Used to love building my own PC's, but will admit to not having the patience anymore, plus, in the UK at least the hardware became so cheap it was easier to get an off the shelf spec'd up for not much more than what it would cost to build. Always nice to know exactly what bits are in it though

Clives just bought a new toy, surprised he hasn't mentioned it yet

There you go Clive, given you a lead in....