Does Google Authorship Helps to rank ?

Hi again
from last two months i have put the rel author tag in my category pages just to gain the benefit of authorship in google's serp. I saw other few guys of my niche who used this trick and some of them have gotten amazing benefits from it. They are ranking in very high competitive keywords which is a monetary keyword. the site who uses authorship has no good authority, links and is a new site but sill it dominates all other authority sites who are there from a long time and has pretty…
Does Google Authorship Helps to rank ?

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