Google authorship works on posts, but not on root domain.
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When I check Google authorship via the tool Google provides, it says I am confirmed for individual posts, but not for my root domain.
I’m using WordPress, and individual posts are fine, but not the blog as a whole. I am the only author… and have given it a week, thinking perhaps it needed time... but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!!
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Hi Andy, do you mean that you linked your website back to your personal Google+ profile with Rel=Publisher, and successfully verified it? I'm asking because I haven't heard of this actually working, as Google states Rel=Publisher is for brands, and Rel=Author is for, well, authors. I have only seen Rel=Publisher successfully used to associate a Google+ Page with a website, and Rel=Author successfully used to associate an author's content (on various websites/blogs) with their personal Google+ profile. Looking forward to hearing more about this from you! Thanks, Christy
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same as with author, you just change ?rel=author to ?rel=publisher and it should be one very page of site as opposed to just articles/blogs with author.
If you are using wordpress and don't fancy editing your theme take a look at Yoast SEO
or use the badge option
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Forgive me if this is a stupid question-- can you tell me how to set myself up as publisher?
I looked in my WordPress dashboard, but don’t see that option anywhere?
For what it’s worth, I see quite a few other bloggers whose root domain, when googled, returns a photo... I asked around, but either their designer is in charge, or I don’t get a response…
Thank you so much!!
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I could be wrong on this, but its how I got it to work.
On all pages you should be validated as the publisher (assuming it's your site). and then within each post you are the author.
Tools like Yoast SEO Plugin are great at this kind of thing, as long as you are the sole contributor. Otherwise just add a link to G+ in each bio on a post ending ?rel=author - jobs a good en
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I haven't found many people who have actually figured out how to make this work since home doesn't have the same author info as a post.
Search Yoast.com - they have an option to have a homepage author in their plugin but even his site doesn't show a snippet photo when you search the domain. Neither does Copyblogger or ProBlogger.net. I have tried a few different things on my own WP sites and nothing seems to make Authorship work for them.
Have you tried manually adding the author tag just to that page? And let the plugins and such handle the posts/pages?
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