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Does anyone know how to get your Google+ profile displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page? As in the screenshot below:

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To have a business page appear on the right hand side of google search results page, you will need to have a google plus verified business page, which is symbolized by that small "v" next to the business name. To do such, you will need to have a google plus business page verified by requesting it via this form: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=page_verification&rd=1

Jack Lockyer's answer works for displaying a thumbnail image of your Google plus profile on search results UNDER the website title on the left side of the results, as seen here. And by that giant red arrow on your question, that's not what you were looking for. That answer is incorrect.

P.s.: I have done the verification myself for my business, and after less than a week, it was being displayed on search results.

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The second link you included is the "authorship" link, which is something we also show, but it needs a different link-type than the publisher one (authorship is for personal profiles & individual articles, publisher is for the whole website & the Google+ Page). – John Mueller Jan 15 at 22:40
@JohnMueller Thank you for clarifying that part John. I have never used that and was just trying to demonstrate the difference. Very helpful, thanks! – guisasso Jan 15 at 22:48
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You will need to associate your Google Plus account with the webpage that you're searching for.

In you Google Plus account add the website in the 'contributor' section of your profile, then add the following tag to the header of your webpage: 

<link rel="publisher" href="GOOGLE_PlUS_ACCOUNT_URL>

Wait a few days for Google to reindex your site and you should be away! Ofcourse doing this doesn't guarantee that Google will include your profile in the search results.

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Hi Jack. Thanks very much. I'll give it a shot. "Ofcourse doing this doesn't guarantee that Google will include your profile in the search results." - yep, noted! – Jon Matthews Jan 9 at 14:42
No problem, would you mind accepting my answer in that case? – Jack Lockyer Jan 9 at 14:42
You need to make sure that you're linking to a Google+ Page, not a personal Google+ Profile, when using the rel=publisher markup. Using this markup to link to a personal profile will not work. – John Mueller Jan 15 at 22:38

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