The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Google Authorship and Author Rank: Big for SEO in 2013 and Beyond”.

Haris Bacic says, “Traditionally, in the era before the Internet and therefore before Google, when a person authored a work in print, it was automatically protected under copyright law (PDF). However, authors still needed to take measures to protect their words from others.

So, authors took precautions from printed theft by plagiarists in two ways. The first was to officially send a copy of an author’s completed work, along with a check, to the United States Copyright Office. The second way, referred to as the poor man’s copyright, was to mail a copy of the completed work to one’s own residence and keep the envelope sealed. The postmarked date on the envelope would serve as a copyright stamp, unless the envelope was unsealed, of course“.

Google Authorship and Author Rank: Big for SEO in 2013 and Beyond

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