The authorship image is not appearing anymore
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It shows up in testing but not on the search engine.
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Hi there! This Authorship troubleshooting guide by Janet Driscoll Miller may help.
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We have all been preparing for this! Barry Schwartz wrote an article discussing just this:
_"As many of you know, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, announced at PubCon that you should expect a 15% reduction in the amount of rich snippets and authorship displayed in the Google search results." _
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-rich-snippet-reduction-17579.html
I hope that helps shine some light on this.
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Thanks. Anyone can help?
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Hey,
This is just the type of thing that I've seen happen to me. From all the digging I've done (not extensive) I can only assume that Google makes a decision on the fly as to weather to show the image or not.
Maybe it's something to do with the search terms used?
What is the USR you are testing search for. Maybe the MOZ community could search for your keywords and see if the image shows?
Regards
Steve
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