Rel="author" showing old image
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I'm using http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets to test my rel="author" tag which was successful, but I noticed I wanted to change my image in Google+ as it is not what I want.
I changed my image in Google+, it's been over 14 hours now and still not showing the new picture using the RichSnippets tool. I know Google can take a couple weeks at least to show changes in search results, but this RichSnippet tool I thought was immeidate.
Am I missing something here or am I just impatient? I want my new photo to show.
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Just an update, on Oct 15th, 2012 I added the links in my various websites to use Rel=author. Today, October 30th, 2012 (only 15 days later) I see my image live in the SERPs! Ya hoo!
and that's for all my websites I added including my company site, books website, and my blog sub-domain. Thanks SEO Moz for an awesome suggestion to do this. I really stand out now.
P.S. I just did my happy dance before writing this.
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OK, I just checked again now and my new image is showing in Google's Rich Snippet Tester. The not so good news is my image doesn't show in the live results yet. At least I know it updates the image pretty quickly, but apparently, what I've read, it can take a while to show up in the live SERPs, so I'll have to just be patient now and hope they allow it soon.
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I've never tested the turn around time of the rich snippet tester - but actual Google SERPs for Author markup are changed almost instantly. Have you checked a live search result for one of your articles to see how quickly it changes?
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