How is Google choosing which authorship profiles to display?
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Does any one know how you can try to make authorship profiles show in SERPs other than just making sure the profiles were installed correctly?
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For the people I've seen it work for, they were "complaining" on Google+ and Twitter.
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By "complaining" alot do you mean posting in Google Webmaster forums or something else?
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Hi Michelleh,
We've been testing things to see what it takes to get the authorship image to show up. It really came down a two things, one was making sure that your Google+ profile was included in lots of other's circles and second, that you complained a lot that your picture wasn't showing up. I've had success with both. There are also a few good blog posts out there that suggest Google is really picky with the setup and if there is even a minor problem you picture won't show up.
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