I cannot find a way to implement to the 2 Link method as shown in this post: http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218
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Did Google stop offering the 2 link method of verification for Authorship?
See this post below:
http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218
And see this:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-passive-link-building-to-build-links-with-no-budget
In both articles the authors talk about how to set up Authorship snippets for posts on blogs where they have no bio page and no email verification just by linking directly from the content to their Google+ profile and then by linking the from the the Google+ profile page (in the Contributor to section) to the blog home page.
But this does not work no matter how many ways I trie it. Did Google stop offering this method?
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Hi Jeff, I've taken a look. It seems like your problem is coming from the fact that you seem to be running some sort of plugin that redirects your links. Every link on your site seems to have this structure: http://www.crmsoftwareblog.com/flow/post_click.php?OtherVariablesHere If you insist on using this redirection/tracking (I'm really not sure what it is) then I would argue that you need to exclude that link from the process. Google is not picking up the link as going to your Author profile on Google+ as it is redirected through another link. You pretty much need a naked link straight to your Google+ profile with the rel="author" tag attached in order for it to work. The good news is that your Google+ profile seems to be set up correctly.
Come back to me about that URL redirection and we'll see if we can get you sorted. Regards Mark -
https://plus.google.com/108537130341503900459/about is the google plus account
This is the post:
http://www.crmsoftwareblog.com/2012/02/microsoft-dynamics-crm-goes-social-with-activity-feeds/
I would be happy to give you a login to the blog so you can troubleshoot this.
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https://plus.google.com/108537130341503900459/about is the google plus account
This is the post:
http://www.crmsoftwareblog.com/2012/02/microsoft-dynamics-crm-goes-social-with-activity-feeds/
I would be happy to give you a login to the blog so you can troubleshoot this.
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Yeah please provide us with the URLs and I'll happily check it for you. I've done a number of these just recently and have seen some peculiar occurrences. Hopefully we can help.
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Can you provide the URL of the article and your Google+ profile URL so I can check it?
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