Authorship image
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Do you understand google authorship? They removed the image from google but left the name. Cant understand what is wrong. It still shows up in testing.
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Can't get mine to work either no matter what I do ughh!
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Google did just make some changes in authorship, and is not showing it for as many sites. http://searchengineland.com/confirmed-google-reduces-authorship-rich-snippets-in-search-results-180313
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I have a heck of a time with authorship. I have one site I cannot get it to work for even though Google's rich-snippet testing tool says it's active, proper, and functioning. It most certainly isn't in true SERPs. So... Bleh
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turned it on for ya.. send it over and I'll take a look
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I would like to send the link private but you have not enabled that option
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Can I see the link to look at the code?
Also make sure the image on your G+ account is a headshot and follows the authorship requirements.
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It is working in the test but in google, only the name not the image. Don't know why. Any one has advice?
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Can we see a link to check the code?
A number of people have been having issues with Google Authorship lately. I believe there was an announcement recently that Google made changes to their authorship algorithm to try and focus on more "trusted" writers.
Also try the snippet test, if it works there, then authorship is working and it's up to Google to display it:
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