Awesome. Good to hear!

I was using the save for web option, but couldn’t seem to get it lower without losing quality. The tinyjpg is working great though!

Thanks for the tip. I just managed to activate it and it has quite some other useful tools I saw, great!

Jess, you should read the details about Facebook Author tags directly from them here: http://media.fb.com/2015/06…

If you are using YOAST then all you need to do is make sure your page of choice is added on your Author page. Then, make sure you have enabled “follow” on your Facebook account.

It’s a very simple process. YOAST does the connecting behind the scenes.

Thanks a lot for the response, Casey!

I will give that plugin a try, thank you.

So Google is using FB to legitimize you and track you as an author around the web, is that how it works? Therefore, it’s less about what name I go by and more about what FB page I link to?

Do I simply need to link to my brand FB page in the “social” section of Yoast? Does that take care of it?

Thanks again. I’ve been thinking about your podcast all week. I really did listen to it twice, which I never do (way too impatient usually!)

Hi Jess, thanks for the kind words. Here is some information on your queries:

1 – Yoast does cover most “social markups” that you need. If you need to add other specific structured data types, check-out the plugin “All In One Schema” which is constantly updated: https://wordpress.org/plugi…

2 – Good question. If you are known more by your “brand” then just enable Yoast Facebook Authorship by linking that to your Facebook Brand Page – not your Personal Facebook page. For example, Bjork and Lindsay I believe link everything to SimplyRecipes.com and that’s fine. That’s their known brand.

Based on your example above, I would just go with “Make and Do Crew” if that’s a concern for you or “Jess @ Make and Do Crew” would be fine. It’s really up to you. It depends on whether you want to promote your PERSONAL page or your BRAND page on Facebook.

Does that clarify things a little? 🙂

The dimensions really only make a “slight” difference. Are you using “save for web” in Photoshop?

Also did you actually take your 400KB image over to https://tinyjpg.com/ and see the difference? That uses what is called “compressionless” optimization. It perfectly balances the photo and removes alot of what are called “dead pixels”.

A 400KB image can easily be optimized all the way below 100KB. And it even has a Photoshop plugin! https://tinypng.com/photoshop