Is it currently possible to have a company logo appear with a Google search result?
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Hello,
We're experimenting with rich snippets. It seems fairly easy to attain authorship through Google and have a headshot appear in a search result...
However, we are wondering if it is possible to have a company logo appear (perhaps through rel="publisher"?). Surprisingly, I can't find much info on this.
Thanks!
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Rel=publisher will display your company logo and Google+ page on the right hand side of branded search terms (search terms close to or exactly your company name).
Google will not allow you to upload a non-headshot (such as a logo) for a rel=author snippet that will appear directly in your search result.
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I've considered this but would this be a problem considering it is not an author but a company? I'd like to see someone who is implementing this where they are using their logo.
Meaning wouldn't Google frown upon this?
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you are talking about something like this
or this
Either way there seems the answer is yes
http://www.authorsure.com/202/your-logo-in-google-search-results-using-relpublisher
here is a great blog post on why you should do it as well
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-author-photos
the reason I ask is you say company logo. You could make your Personal & company photo the same in Google + photo your company logo and thus it would show up as you.
I did a little research and I think that is what you have to do is make them both one you can only have one unfortunately what I understand however these links I believe will shed a lot more light on this. I strongly suggest using a photo of yourself or your company's logo regardless and putting it as Google author
http://www.briangardner.com/google-profile-search-results/
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/google-authorship/
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
I hope this is been of help,
Thomas
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