How To Get Your Profile Picture On Google Beside Your Blog Result - Software Bundles.net

You might have noticed Google search results  includes information about the author. It has a link to the Author’s Google Plus Profile and it also displays the Author’s Profile Picture.This tutorial will guide you in doing the same with your Blog.
Before we Start, here is a preview of what we are talking about

How to Make Google Know that you are the Author of a Blog ?

This process involves kind of a two way verification. In your blog you should tell the Google Crawlers that  this guy with this Google Profile is the author of the entry.
Now Google has to verify that the Blogger has provided the correct Google Plus Profile.So it will see if that guy’s Google Plus profile links back to your Blog. If it does, then Google can confirm that he/she is the author and it may display his/her profile information in the Google Search Results.
Note: Even of you do all this, there is no guarantee that Google will display your Profile Details in search.

Now lets’ try doing it

There are two methods of setting up this two way verification. We will have a look at simplest of those

a. For a Single Author Blog.

Every page on your Blog should tell Google that this Google Plus guy is my Author. To do that, there should be a link to your Google Plus profile on every page on your Blog. This link should have the rel attribute set to author
You can do that by adding the following link code to some HTML/JavaScript Widget

<a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202">My Profile</a>

The Link in red should be 
replaced by your Google Plus Profile URL. You can replace the thing in 
Green with anything you want.  When you add this as an HTML/JavaScript 
Widget, you are telling Google that every page on your Blog was written 
by the guy with the Google Plus Profile which you have mentioned in the 
link. It is not mandatory that you should add this link in a Gadget. You
 can add the link anywhere in your Template. The only thing is that it 
should be there on every page of your Blog.
Now we have to help Google in conforming this.To do that  your Google Plus profile should link back to your Blog’s home page.
So Edit your Google Plus Profile and add a link to your Blog’s Home Page.

Now
 you have successfully completed the steps. Read the last part of this 
post to know how you can verify if you did everything right.
b. For a Multi Author Blog.
The
 method is almost the same for a Multi Author blog as well. The only 
difference is that each post on the Multi Author Blog should link to the
 corresponding author.
If you are not good with Blogger Template 
Codes, then you can manually add the Google Plus profile link to each 
Post(so that each post will link to the corresponding author’s Google 
Plus Profile). If you are good with the template codes, then you can use
 the following code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<!—repeating block –>
<b:if cond='data:post.author == &quot;Author1Name&quot;'>
<a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202">My Profile</a>
</b:if>
<!/—repeating block –>
<b:if cond='data:post.author == &quot;Author2Name&quot;'>
<a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202">My Profile</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>

 
 
 
 
Author1Name and Author2Name
 should be replaced by the  name of the Authors(their Blogger Name). The
 red links should be replaced by the Google Plus Profile  link of the 
corresponding Author. You can change the green text to anything you 
want. If you have more than 2 authors, you can just repeat the repeating
 block.(I have commented it so that you can properly identify the 
repeating one).
You have to pasted this code in your template below
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
or
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
or
<data:post.body/>
Now each of the Blog Author’s Google Plus Profile should link back to your Blog’s home page.
Verifying if everything worked properly
You can use the Rich Snippets Testing Tool to verify if you have done everything properly. Give a post URL in the text box at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets and preview how your page will appear on the search engine. You should see something like this when you do a preview.

Asking Google To Consider displaying your Profile in Search Results
Now
 you have successfully added the Author snippets to your Blog. This 
doesn’t mean that Google will start to show your Profile details right 
away. We don’t know how they do it. Right now we only see these working 
for some quality blogs. Here is an authorship request form which might help you