Trouble implementing rel=publisher
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I am trying to implement rel=publisher but am having some difficulties.
Although I have over 1000 fans when I try and verify my page I get a message from Google that "Your page does not have enough followers to be eligible for verification"
I have the following code on my pages:
<td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl"> <a href="<a class="webkit-html-attribute-value webkit-html-external-link" href="https://plus.google.com/+thelotter/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/[myname]/posts" id="ctl00_Header_socialCtrl_GooglePlusLinkCtrl_hyperLinkSocial" target="_blank" class="socialIcon googlePlusIcon"></a href="<a></td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl">
What should I be doing differently?
Thanks!
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Hi there! Martijn altered your code snippet, which was missing the rel="author" attribute. You should be able to "select all" and then copy and paste the code. Please let us know if that works. Thanks!
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Hi Martin,
I think I missed part of your answer.... what was your advice for me?
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<td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl"> <a href="<a href="https://plus.google.com/+thelotter/posts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/[myname]/posts" id="ctl00_Header_socialCtrl_GooglePlusLinkCtrl_hyperLinkSocial" target="_blank" class="socialIcon googlePlusIcon" rel="publisher"></a href="<a></td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl">
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The code is as follows:
<td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl"> <a href="<a href="https://plus.google.com/+thelotter/posts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/[myname]/posts" id="ctl00_Header_socialCtrl_GooglePlusLinkCtrl_hyperLinkSocial" target="_blank" class="socialIcon googlePlusIcon"></a href="<a></td id="ctl00_header_socialctrl_tdgooglepluslinkctrl">
(only thing different is myname is my brand)
We have a Google + icon linking to my page and I don't want it to say on my website homepage "find us on Google".
Shouldn't the above code be okay or does it need to be modified?
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Are you sure you're using the right elements and tags to verify that your Google+ account belongs to your Web site. The correct code for this should be:
rel="publisher">Find us on Google+
More information on connecting your Google+ account can be found here.
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can you let us see your rel=publisher code? Its weird because it should be pretty straight forward
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