"Authorship is not working for this webpage" Can a company G+ page be both Publisher AND Author?
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When using the Google Structured Data testing tool I get a message saying.......
**Authorship Testing Result - **Authorship is not working for this webpage.
Here are the results of the data for the page http://www.webjobz.com/jobs/
Authorship Email Verification
Please enter a Google+ profile to see if the author has successfully verified an email address on the domain www.webjobz.com to establish authorship for this webpage. Learn more
<form id="email-verification-form" action="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets" method="GET" data-ved="0CBMQrh8">Verify Authorship</form>
Email verification has not established authorship for this webpage.Email address on the webjobz.com domain has been verified on this profile: YesPublic contributor-to link from Google+ profile to webjobz.com: YesAutomatically detected author name on webpage: Not Found.Publisher
| Publisher markup is verified for this page. |
| Linked Google+ page: | https://plus.google.com/106894524985345373271 |Question - Can this company Google plus account "Webjobz" be both the publisher AND the author?
Can I use https://plus.google.com/106894524985345373271 as the author of this and all other pages on our site?
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Hi Matt - Publisher is for brands, while Authorship is for people. You should put the rel=publisher code on your website's most important page (usually the home page) only, and establish a two-way link between that page and your brand's business page on Google+. You should verify Authorship for each one of your bloggers, as well as authors of other content on your website where it is appropriate to have an author byline. You cannot use your business page on Google+ to establish Authorship. Each author must link their personal Google+ profile to your website (under the contributor section on said profile.) It looks like you have a multi-author site, so you can either link your website content back to each author's Google+ profile using the email method or rel=author markup. I hope that helps!
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I found this ...is this true? ..................................
Matthew BarbySEO and Social Media Strategist at Wow Internet
- Oct 03, 2012
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to add to what I have previously said as when I have dug a bit deeper into this, I have found some info that could go against what I have previously said.
You can use the rel=publisher tag alongside the rel=author tag on a webpage. With this in mind it would be a good idea to have the rel=publisher present on every page in your website to enable you to be eligible for Google's Direct Connect feature.
I found this out when looking through a Google forum and one of the Google Trend Analysts confirmed this by saying:
Hi guys
_just a few short comments: it's fine to have both a link rel=publisher and author-markup on the same page. The rel=publisher confirms that your website is the publisher of that Google+ Page; the authorship markup confirms that you (your personal profile) is the author of the content on that page. This markup can be used independently, since the meanings are slightly different. The issue with the Rich Snippets testing tool flagging this as an error is a bug on our side and should be resolved soon (sorry about the confusion caused by that!). _ Cheers John
Just thought I would share this with you all as it might help.
Matt.
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