Will google put logo's in as author snippets?
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Are they smart enough to tell it is not a mug shot and then not show it? Has anyone ever seen a logo as a snippet? What are some of the factors to with whether they show them or not?
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You would know you are flagged. When Google would send you actually a message to whatever account is linked to Google + account. They would also take down Google plus account.
So you would be able to find out if there was anything wrong with it right away. The key to this is making the change to your real photograph that you have in this right away.
I hope this is that of help to you,
Thomas
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I work for my own company AdServe, making Android based digital signage software
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Looking at it I have only ever seen the profile pics displayed when the face takes up more than half of the image. Guess I will have to get a nice pic taken
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Hi Adam
Heres a really good October 2012 Moz article from Cyrus Shephard, all about G+. Have a look at point 7 , it may well be worth having a clearer picture without any background clutter:
http://moz.com/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo
All Best
Dan
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Sure...
We found out the hard way... when trying to access the public profile it read a message that our account was suspended bue to the guideline infringement .. then it gave us the option to dispute which seemed took forever, so I tried to escalate the problem with our AdWords Account Manager as we wanted to use Google + extension...
I believe their guidelines are pretty explicit and they must run some face recognition software.
I would stick with your picture as you have it, and if company branding is important to you maybe hold a sign or something... although I see you must work for AdServe??? I can tell by the background.
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Thanks, how would I know if it is flagged? I do not have any snippets showing up yet but I have been using my logo in my personal profile for a few months, we only added the rel"author" a few days ago
Also I am now using the same profile pic as I have here
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The answer is No... your account will get flagged and it will end up being a nightmare getting it back up live... We run into that problem when trying to create a business profile, accidentally added the logo to the 'human' + page and it took over 6 weeks to get it back to work.
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What Dan said is right. Well it is still possibly have to actually put your logo as an author you are supposed to be a human being instead of corporation. Therefore there's really no reason why you should not look like you do.
I was just going by Google's guidelines instead of trying to trick them as they have a knack for coming back inviting you if you ever try to go outside their terms of service.
I hope I have been of help to you sincerely,
Thomas
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Yep I will use the same pic as the one I just added here as my profile.
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I think when first launched some were getting away with it and possibly still now, although i wouldn't reccommend trying since is definately misleading and not what authorships about. It doesnt make sense for an author to have a logo since an author is a person and the image should therefore be the persons picture and nothing else
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