Is my authorship working?
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I am not certain if my authorship is working or not. If I go into google incognito, and search for my exact title of a new article, or any of them that are over a week old, then I will see my image and 'by My Name' which tells me its working.
When I go to structured data testing tool and I enter the URL, I will get:
Authorship Testing Result****Page does not contain authorship markupNow on my webpage NEWS section, it has a 'by My Name' at the top, and if the user clicks it it will bring me to my G+ account. When you go further into an actual article that link no longer works.http://bit.ly/14k8Zys you can see here.So is my authorship working or not? Seems to me it is or I wouldnt find myself when using chrome incognito, but I find it wierd that googles tool is telling me authorship is not working
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Hi Demetrios,
I'm not sure if this has been answered as it is coming up unanswered; however, I just tested it and it appears to be working correctly for the /news/ page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.studentdebtrelief.us%2Fnews%2F); however, the author tag is not on your main domain. If you add it to your main domain as well, I believe it will resolve all of your problems.
Thanks,
Christine DeGraff -
Thanks didnt know that existed in WMT. Yea I do have authorship on all my articles, thanks!
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Demetrios, on the newspage i see the link: demotrios soumaidis on google+. As you said this link works fine.
When i go to an article on the website i see the following: Posted on June 5, 2013 by Demetrios Sourmaidis • 0 CommentsYour name here doesn't have rel=author. It does have class=author though.
If you add the rel=author tag here all should be fine.Hope i answered your question
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Hi Demetrios,
First you are using this structure: <a rel="<a class="attribute-value">author</a>" href="https://plus.google.com/111273018705499833271">Demetrios Sourmaidis on Google+a>, while it should be <a rel="<a class="attribute-value">author</a>" href="https://plus.google.com/111273018705499833271?rel=author">Demetrios Sourmaidis on Google+a>
Have you verified the page in your G+ profile? You should link to the site where your posts are and a link to your G+ profile should be there.
Anyway, if your picture, and data is showing up in the snippet while you search, it means it is working. Try using GWT and under Labs you can find "Author Stats" that will show you the pages that are being recognized as your creations and some traffic data.
You can find more info on the link structure I mentioned here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
Hope that helps!
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