Blogpost Authorship. Should we give credits or not?
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We have been paying for getting the content written from writers. Is it a good move to give authorship to writers for writing the articles in terms of SEO. Some writers now have started to demand for authorship from the articles they have written. Should I give them authorship credits from each & every blog post they have written or it will be just a bad move to do so?
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If they are professional writers and do excellent excellent work I might do it as a reward. Be strict with this.
Also, you need to review their Google+ profile to be sure that it does not contain content that is disagreeable for any of your visitors who might go there. Reserve the right to remove the link and be very clear about reserving that right.
This will require some administration work from you, and some traffic loss. So you got to be getting value from it. Overall, if it keeps content quality very high, I would not have a problem linking to a google+ page at the bottom of the article. I have done this. I have also linked to faculty members university page if they write an article for my site. They enjoy this and often link back to my site to share their article with others.
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How about a link just to their Google+ profiles? No links or Google+ profiles link which one will be better?
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If you have worthy authors who produce great content then giving them credit as a reward for excellent work will make them feel acknowledged. If their name is on their work and they are good people then they will work harder than if their name is not mentioned. Maybe if their name is on the article they will share that on their blog or on facebook. That can be helpful for you. Their parents might share it and say... "my son wrote this". That is good for you.
Putting the authors name on the page costs you nothing, however, it can make a huge difference in the mind of some authors. This has the potential to bring you better content.
Now, if those authors demand links to their websites and their friends' websites that will not be good. Your traffic will leave through those links. If those websites are not nice websites, now or in the future, then you might be linking to manipulative websites or bad websites which google does not like.
If they are writing low quality content and demand links, then they are trying to use you. Stop their employment.
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