Measuring Author Rank

[MattBarker]

It's pretty clear that "AuthorRank" is going to be a big thing for SEO.

Although the main principles seem to be pretty straightforward (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building) what I'm less clear about is how we can start to think about author influence as a measurable metric.

Webmaster tools gives us Author Stats as an impact on the site's impressions/CTR, but how do we measure the influence of an individual author? Are those factors even defined?

Will we get to a stage where authors can be given a Klout-like score for Google Authorship? If not that, how will it look?

This will be a HUGE question to solve for future content development strategies, and is something I'm thinking a lot about right now.

Best, Matt.

[MattBarker]

I guess that's a no then!

[shendison]

I just came across this Q while looking for ways to measure author rank, and since nobody answered your question, I will..

I believe we are ALREADY at the stage where "authors can be given a Klout-like score for Google Authorship" but we just have no easy way to see it.

There are more tools like Klout coming all the time, http://bit.ly/TOE2cs and who knows, maybe Google will buy one (if they haven't already.. )

[ForwardPartners]

I guess an approach like mozcast would be the most indicated, X amount of terms/webpages that have an associated domain/page authority and author associated and you need to monitor how that shows in page rankings. I am not aware of how Klout or similar services score their users or even if they leave it open.