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Did that work, David?

Hi Danny, did any of these responses answer your question?

Hi Gagan, are you asking why Authorship does not consistently display for a particular blog post in the SERPs? (That is, why it shows for some keyword searches and not others?) Thank you in advance for the clarification.

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!

Great, thanks!

Hi Gagan - Did you see the response I left you on your original question at http://moz.com/community/q/authorship-photo-not-showing-in-for-last-6-months-now? I included a couple screencaps of Authorship showing for select searches.

Hi Si, has this issue been resolved?

Hi Becky, has your issue been resolved?

Hi PureMobile, you've received some great responses. Has your question been answered?

Hi Lewis, I'm just checking in to see if you saw John's response. Please let us know -- we're here to help! Thanks.

Hi WebTalent, has your question been answered?

Hi Ocelet, Miriam provided you with some excellent advice. Did it answer your questions?

Hi Jason, you've received a number of excellent responses. Did any of them help?

Did this answer your question, Dana?

Hi Gagan,

Guess what? It looks like Authorship and rich snippets for product review ratings are now selectively appearing in Google search results!

(See screenshots for the following query below.) http://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Tata+Nano:+Prices%2C+Specs+of+Nano+with+Safety+and+Style+Features+Posted+by%09+Gagan+Modi+&oq=Tata+Nano:+Prices%2C+Specs+of+Nano+with+Safety+and+Style+Features+Posted+by%09+Gagan+Modi+&gs_l=hp.3...1133.1133.0.1357.1.1.0.0.0.0.149.149.0j1.1.0....0...1c.2.23.psy-ab..1.0.0.WmXuBYtG5ls&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50165853%2Cd.aWc%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.seW1cfrvSKg.O&fp=9279df2c7824cae6&biw=1326&bih=644.

Increased engagement with your posts and your Google+ profile may result in Authorship displaying more often. This is something to consider working towards. I would definitely work on increasing the quality of your blog posts. The content of many of your posts is very similar to product descriptions and reviews on other sites. This should also help your rankings, too (not to mention drastically reduce the changes of your site being penalized for duplicate content.)

Cheers! (Christy)

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Hi there, you've received some great responses. What is the current status of this issue?

Hi Angelos, you've received some great responses. Did any of them answer your question?

Hi there! I recommend redirecting the www version to the non www version, as you already have your internal links set as the latter, Google has cached this version, it has high authority, etc. You should also set the non www version as the canonical website in Google WMT. Best of luck!

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Hi Nicholas, in addition to posting on Inbound.org, you may also consider checking out our list of Recommended Companies. Best of luck!

Hi Tony, you will likely get more recommendations if you ask this followup question in a brand new thread. Best of luck!

Hi there! Which plugin (name, version and maker) are you specifically referring to?

Hi Kadel, what is the current status of this issue? Any updates to report? Cheers, Christy

Hi Melissa, you've received some great responses. Did any of them help you resolve your issue?

I am very happy to hear that, Ashfordco! And you are quite welcome. Thanks for the update.

KLLC, did this answer your question?

Hi there, I'm sorry to hear that. Good news, though: your campaigns should have been archived when you had the issue with your credit card. If so, you can simply reactivate them. To do this, navigate to http://pro.moz.com/campaigns and click on "Archived Campaigns" in the sub-menu. Then click the button labeled "Activate" next to each campaign in the list. Did that work?

If not, please send an email to help@moz.com to open a new help request ticket. Best of luck! (Christy)

I agree with Jesse that you should create great new content with your users top of mind. I also like the idea of periodically updating evergreen content with a new post date. As far, as hurting your rankings, I think that simply removing the date from your post (or updating it without actually updating the content) could hurt your rankings in the longterm by damaging your credibility with your readers. If you incorporate your date into your URL structure (and/or index date-based archive pages), you need to consider preventing duplicate content issues by correctly implementing 301-redirects. The same goes for if you remove the dates from the articles (which is something I personally feel is bad for usability and do not recommend.)

Great! I'll cross my fingers, too. Remember, Google displays Authorship information at its discretion. Say, I just came across this article on SearchEngineLand about Google working to fix a bug that affects Authorship. Apparently Barry Schwartz has experience problems with Authorship himself. Have you read this article?

Hi Tim - You will get the best response to your question by starting a new thread. Thanks! (Christy)

Hi Gagan, I would suggest trying two things:

(1) Change the contributor link to your home page, http://www.mycarhelpline.com/. (It is currently linked to your author page using the three-way Authorship setup, which is only listed in older Google documentation regarding verifying Authorship.

(2) Swap out your headshots on both your website, Google+ page, and any other public profiles you may have with one that is of as high quality as possible. The one you have is a bit dark, and could be enlarged and cropped in a bit closer (especially on your website.)

I hope that works! I understand your frustration. Authorship photos can show for certain queries and not for others, disappear for unknown reasons, display in tiny dimensions, and sometimes show other authors' profile photos --- even when you've done everything right! I've noticed that swapping out the photo works in several cases, though.

Cheers,

Christy

PS - I would add the Rel=Author snippet to your news pages as well (vs. using the three-way linking method of verifying Authorship.

Great, thanks for checking in, and looking forward to your confirmation!

Hi Adam, were you able to resolve this issue?

Hi Fabio, what did you end up settling on?

Hi Kevin, you've received some great responses. Did any of them answer your question?

Hi Spencer, did you find someone to help you?

Great responses, everyone. Thanks! What did you decided to do, OOMDO?

Hi Rahul, Miriam has provided you with some great feedback. Did she answer your question?

Hi there, the rel="author" tag does not show up anywhere in the HTML for this page. There is good news, though. If you go back to the GWT rich snippets testing tool and input your author's Google ID, you will see that Authorship has been established for this page using the verified email method.

Hi Robert, were you able to sort this issue out? We would love an update!

Hi there, Mike and Bradley have given you solid advice on how to correct your first issue. Would you mind sharing a few more details about the nature of your second issue by posting it as a new, separate question? Thanks so much!

Hi Thomas, I see that you have set up a Google+ local page and linked your entire site back to it using the rel=author tag. I am curious as to what results you have had with this, as the rel=author tag is intended to link content to the individual Google+ profiles of authors (and show author head shots, not brand logos.) Would love to hear what you have discovered!

Hi Dario, no-indexing the author archive is probably the most commonly used method to prevent duplicate content issues from harming single author blogs in terms of search. However, it is not the only method, and is not the best one in terms of usability.  Other options include redirecting the author archive page to the blog home page, using canonical tags, or disabling the author archive altogether. In terms of usability, I prefer the last option. Why create an author archive at all for a single person blog?

Hi David, were you able to resolve this issue?

Hi Robert,

I see that you posted this question in Paid Search Marketing. Are you by chance collecting these emails using AdWord's Communication Extension function? (It allows you to embed email subscribe forms in search display ads.)

Christy

Hi Christina,

You should be able to activate your campaigns with a few clicks. Log in to your account and navigate to your Campaigns overview page. Next, click on "Archived Campaigns" link (located near the top of the page, underneath the black design element labeled "PRO".) A list of your old campaigns will appear. Finally, click on the button labeled "Activate," located underneath each archived campaign. Let me know how this works for you.

Oh, and we are super excited you will be joining us at MozCon! See you in less than two weeks!!!!!

Christy

I completely agree with Martijn and Takeshi in that whether or not you should make unique pages for each question depends on how in-depth the answers are.

I'd like to add that whether you  create a single Q&A page or an overview page, you can easily mitigate the usability issue by using anchor tags. List all the questions at the top of the page and then break out the individual questions and answers(or questions and excerpts of answers) below the list. Link each question at the top of the page to the corresponding question and answer further down the page using same-page anchor tags. This will minimize the amount of scrolling required to navigate the page. You can also place same-page anchor tags periodically down the page that jump back to the top of the page.

This FAQ page about CrossFit is an example of using same-page anchor tags both ways: http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/faq.html. Hope that helps, and best of luck!

Hi Stilianos, how did this work out for you?

What did you find out?