Thanks. Is that an automatic thing if I meet the guidelines? Cant see how to sign up for it..

Thanks.

I'm going to try to set up the author profiles and see what happens with that. I gain something from most of the people sharing my content (not as much as I lose from them ranking above me) so I'd rather just find a way to get myself above them 9 times out of 10 and that seems like a great option. Hopefully that will reduce any impact of Panda changes?

Ok. Thanks... you think this would make a big impact in general with search engine results?

Headshot and real persons name?

Thx

But is there a way to set it so that it wont show my name/picture?

Thanks

Can I do author profile without using my name? I have stuff written by other people/don't include my name on the site.

It must look different where you are. I get the exact match domain, haaretz.com, then a couple of copies of mine, and then mine.

I'll look at the author profile.

Thanks. I'm using Wordpress, what would you suggest?

Thanks for the reply. The site url is www.touristisrael.com and an example is if you Google:

"Chris Cornell in Israel" or

"Chris Cornell in Tel Aviv"

Do you mean author profiles on Google +?

A number of sites are copying - either 100% word for word, paragraphs, or sentences of my content and are ranking higher.

Some sites are doing this with permission/properly and are linking back to my article Others are not linking back or giving credit.

Some of these sites, in some cases are ranking higher than me in Google results.

What can I do?