Google plus authorship is driving me truly mad!

[Nightwing]

Ok permision to vent first

Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!! Fu@king Google authorship, for fuc@s sake why so fuc@ing useless....Ok vent over....

Mission: I wanted to add Google+ authorship images to appear in the serps so I followed this guide to the letter:
https://plus.google.com/authorship

I then tested it my authorship link on page http://www.netconstruct.co.uk/services/digital-marketing/  work via the testing tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

And i get a thumbs down(arggg!!) no authorship data recognised but  here's the mark up:
Author: [xxxxxxx](https://plus.google.com/u/0/114149997094688010790/?<br />   rel=author) onpafe  http://www.netconstruct.co.uk/services/digital-marketing/

So please can someone give me any insight into why this is not working

Grazie,
David

!!IGNORE!! Spotted a gap in the authorship code afre the the question mark! Now it recognisies authorship mark up!

[Nightwing]

Hey Chris, thnk you for that bit of advice that is something I'll foolow here on in

[ThompsonPaul]

The only caveat to your approach, Gregory, is that people who do this usually put that code in the head of their template - which means it will appear on all pages of the site. Google is very clear that authorship should only be applied to individual "article"-type pages. E.g pages clearly and identifiably written by a particular author. So NOT things like category pages, product listings, services pages etc.

Something to be very careful of when using the authorship code in headers. I strongly suspect that incorrect use like this is one of the many reasons why sites that have implemented it this way may not be seeing it take effect in the SERPS.

Paul

P.S. Obviously not a problems for Publisher implementation as that does apply sitewide.

[ChristopherGlaeser]

If I publish and page and then later add authorship, it can take a long time before Google adds the author image to the SERP.  However, if I publish a page with the author markup and then Google indexes the page, the author image is included in the SERP when the page appears in the SERP.  So, the lesson I have learned going forward is to make sure the author markup is correct for all newly published pages, because if you get it wrong or add it later after publishing the page, it can take many weeks for Google to use it.

Best,
Christopher

[GregB123]

Hi David. Or it can be done more simply (If you have G+ pages for both your self and you business) by just putting these two lines in the head of your page

where publisher is your G+ biz page.

[GPainter]

Glad you fixed it, also agree it's a bit poo. Set up publisher and author on some sites and Google has yet to think its worthy for SERPs.