B
Evidence Grade B
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32%
32% -- google authorship adoption rate for Forbes' 50 Most Influential Social Media Marketers (2026)
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Value
32%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
50
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Search Engine Land
Primary
Tier C
https://www.atomicdust.com/end-google-authorship/ ↗
Source Article
The End of Google Authorship
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Search Engine Land
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Methodology
Adoption measured among Forbes' 50 Most Influential Social Media Marketers; stat attributed to Search Engine Land via secondary source (Atomicdust blog)
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Forbes' 50 Most Influential Social Media Marketers: 32% google authorship adoption rate. Source: Search Engine Land (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-authorship-adoption-forbes-marketers
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