Google authorship does not work despite connecting Google
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Hi, please help – I have successfully connected Google+ and even ended bylines and info in user profile, yet structure testing tool still says that my page does not contain google authorship.
Thank you in advance.
Ana
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don’t think connecting Google+ adds the required rel=”author” code to the blog. You can manually add it by placing the following code inside a Text widget.
<a href="[profile_url]?rel=author">Google</a>Replace [profile_url] with your Google+ link.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/116394575739281318169?rel=author">Google</a>Also make sure to add the blog’s URL to the Contributor To section of your Google+ profile.
Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2539557?hl=en
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Thank you, but I did the above steps as well. I have put that code in a text section of my profile (under “users”) and my Google+ profile shows my blog in contribute section.
Ana
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Whatever you enter in the “My Profile” section is used here – http://gravatar.com/anaspoke
So you must place that code in a text widget so that it is available in the frontend.
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Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
You’re getting this error because this theme isn’t displaying a byline (eg by Ana Apoke). The Pilcrow theme displays this byline only on multi author blogs.
Error: Missing required field “updated”.
This theme isn’t showing any “modified” date for the posts which is the cause of this error. This error doesn’t have anything to do with G+ authorship.
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@anaspoke- did you follow these instructions for connecting your profile? http://en.support.wordpress.com/google-plus-profile/
If so, I don’t see the Google+ Author profile appearing under your posts.
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Hi,
Thank you very much for trying to help.
1. I have definitely connected Google+ profile, I can see that under settings-sharing it says under Google+ “connected as Ana Spoke”
2. If you click on the Gravatar link above or here http://en.gravatar.com/anaspoke, you can see that I am connected to google (I have also verified email)
3. “You’re getting this error because this theme isn’t displaying a byline (eg by Ana Apoke). The Pilcrow theme displays this byline only on multi author blogs.” How do I solve this, or do I need to?
4. Structural test tool still gives me errors.
Please help and thank you in advance.
Zhanna
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The Pilcrow theme displays this byline only on multi author blogs.” How do I solve this, or do I need to?
There’s a single author workaround you can use. See this thread Displaying post author (byline) for Pilcrow https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/displaying-post-author-byline-for-pilcrow?replies=6#post-1116264
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Thank you timethief!
The only thing, I am not clear what this means:
“While logged out of WordPress.com create another username account with a different email address.”
Am I supposed to create a completely new WordPress user?
Thanks again.
Zhanna
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Yes. There has two or more authors for the author byline for any authors to display. So you have to create another username account using a different email address, when logged out of WordPress.com.
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@anaspoke Just because your gravatar page links to G+ it doesn’t mean you blog will have G+ authorship. The WP.com blog and gravatar and totally two different things.
For Google’s authorship to work you need to have a link on your blog which points to your G+ profile. From the Google’s content guidelines:
Linking your content to your Google profile is a two-step process. First, you add a link from your website or page to your Google profile. Second, you update your Google profile by adding a link back to your site.
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Thank you timethief!! It works now!!
A1 – Those directions are funny, since both steps do exactly the same thing.
I’m just so happy I can forget about this now! Thanks everyone for trying to help!
Ana
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Just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to a1jesin !!
I was having the same problem, but by adding the small text widget at the bottom of my page with the ?author= code I was able to get the problem solutioned! Now I just gotta write write write and get more shares to actually show up in google searches!!
http://quickmeups.com -
Even I facing the authorship issue on my blog techandwe.com. The structred data preview tool says, every thing is matching. But search engine, nothing displays.
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