Rich Snippets: rel=”Author” CTR?

[BizonwebItaly]

Hi everybody,

I want to put on my websites the rel="author" to appear in google search with the image of g+ of my profile. Does anyone have statistics or case history on the effects (positive or negative) that this can have on the CTR? Logically I think it should increase CTR, but I'm not sure that is the case for all sectors.

Tnks in advance for your answers

[CleverPhD]

Yes it helps. Some have seen 150% improvement

http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/04/27/want-a-150-boost-in-traffic-then-use-this-idiot-proof-guide-to-google-authorship-markup/

There is a great article on the Moz bog on how you even need to optimize the picture

http://moz.com/blog/google-author-photos

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