Rel Author Photo when does it show in SERPS
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Hi,
Ive been using Rel author recently to get my Google+ photo showing up on Google serps. Can someone enlighten me to when people would and wouldnt see it. It appears on peoples results who live near me, however when someone 60 miles away does the same search he does not see the photo just the serps result. It is not a Google+ places entry, just your normal organic result.Any thoughts welcome
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ok cool thanks for your help.
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Google says maybe...
Once you use the rich snippets test link given to you by Bradly below:
Then you know it is "working"
Google states that there is no guarantee, I have seen on my websites the photo show up sometimes and not other times.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
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I would first confirm that you have authorship set up correctly by using the Rich Snippet Testing Tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets.
If Google shows you that everything is set up properly, then you shouldn't need to worry about it. It's possible that Google hasn't updated its index since you added the authorship link, so that could be why some people don't see your Google+ picture in the SERPs, but Google also could just be choosing not to show it for some reason.
I've seen some of my own pages with authorship set up properly on not display my Google+ picture in SERPs before, and I was logged into my account as the author. I'm not sure what causes Google to choose to not display the image, but it does happen sometimes.
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