diff --git a/_includes/googleplus-badge.html b/_includes/googleplus-badge.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1780071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_includes/googleplus-badge.html
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<!-- FROM: https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/ -->
+
+<!-- Place this tag where you want the widget to render. -->
+<div class="g-person" data-href="//plus.google.com/u/0/114054672576929802335" data-layout="landscape" data-rel="author"></div>
+
+<!-- Place this tag after the last widget tag. -->
+<script type="text/javascript">
+  window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-GB'};
+
+  (function() {
+    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
+    po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js';
+    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
+  })();
+</script>
diff --git a/_layouts/default.html b/_layouts/default.html
index aacb477..26f7bc7 100644
--- a/_layouts/default.html
+++ b/_layouts/default.html
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     {% if page.toc %}
         <script src="{{ site.url }}/bower_components/jquery.toc/jquery.toc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
     {% endif %}
-    <script src="{{ site.url }}/javascripts/gcse.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
+    <script src="{{ site.url }}/javascripts/gcse.js" type="text/javascript" async></script>
     <script src="{{ site.url }}/javascripts/comments.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 </head>
 <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog">
