| Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | YourAdrenalineFix | 10/26/12 8:14 AM | Hi everyone, Today I noticed that my traffic has dropped so I went looking for what could be causing this and when checking my positions in the SERP's I noticed that my rankings appear to be fine but what I did notice is that my authorship picture is |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | Hrgot | 10/26/12 9:21 AM | Lots of folks very curious exactly how Google is choosing when to show authorship. |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | YourAdrenalineFix | 10/27/12 5:52 AM | Anyone else care to chime in?? Today I noticed more of my results not having the authorship picture so I changed my G+ profile pic back to the one that is primarily a head shot (Please see link to screenshot above) but I don't know with certainty if |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | Devan T. | 10/27/12 10:18 AM | This is not a penalty of any kind. Even the popular websites have this issue. Nobody is actually sure about this behavior of Google. Test your URL at the Rich snippets testing tool. If it works fine, then there is nothing to be done on your part. |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | JohnMu | 10/28/12 3:21 PM | Hi Stuart The help center ( http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986 ) mentions "a good, recognizable headshot as your profile photo" -- it's really more than just having your face somewhere on the photo. Also keep in m |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | YourAdrenalineFix | 10/28/12 4:03 PM | Hi John, Thank you so much for your insight on this and for providing the link to the help article. Stuart |
| Re: Today My Authorship Picture Has Stopped Appearing Next to Some Results, Please Help | Dave Sutton | 10/29/12 4:05 AM | I have found it's not at all unusual for the little photo to dissappear and come back a few days or even weeks later. You can also check with webmaster tools just how this rich snippet effects your CTR etc. |