Google stopped showing my G+ picture in Search Results

Ronnie55

Ronnie55

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Has this happened to anyone else on a website that was linked to their Google +?

I used the google structured data testing tool and verified that my authorship is still in google's system, and everything is working. Google + profile looks fine and still lists me as a contributor to my site.

But the site doesn't show my G+ picture in search results anymore, which greatly reduces the number of clicks I receive. I assume this is temporary, and I know Google can choose whether or not to actually include display picture, but I wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else.

It's for all pages, from what I can tell. Not just 1
 


I've been fucking around with the following issues on 1 local client that got it removed. Now he's in this new 2nd tier of authorship where just his name is showing and not his image. Here's some things I've done in steps so far to try and bring it back:
  • Changed profile picture
  • Updated more content on their Google+ business page, made sure it was still publisher verified
  • Posted updates on his Google+ personal profile
  • Removed any pages where it didn't make sense to have authorship (just reduced it to the blog, aka content with a personal touch)
So far nothing is back yet. Other clients who should totally have had it removed are still having their image displayed. There seems to be a big deal with authority here and where the name is mentioned. I don't think I had 1 client where if their name was in the brand name (like a lawyer) they lost it, and that might a little trick that got them by the purge. Though my personal site (like my name.com) lost authorship so I don't think it's 100% true.

The next thing I'm trying is making sure all his personal social media profiles are verified in Google+ and make sure they're updated frequently. I'm also going to try and get his name on more sites, along with his brand name.

Story on when the purge happened
 
CCarter said:
I notice this happening on websites I stopped being active on my Google+ page.

1) Are you still active with the Google+ page?

2) Do you have fresh content on your site? How old is the newest piece of content?​
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1. my personal page is not very active. my company page which is linked to (or built off of) my person page is active. I post 1-2 updates per week.

2. site is very fresh. new blog post every week for the last 6 months with no gaps.
 
Do you think G+ will not show authorship results in serps if it is not really my client logging into his social media accounts, but really me?

I thought about setting up a separate computer with a separate ip to use just for his social media stuff, but then I got impatient and just logged in from my main pc.

Google immediately noticed and asked to rephone verify, but we did that. So now I just log in to my stuff and my client's stuff from my pc without worrying about running Ccleaner or using HideMyAss, and I haven't noticed a problem yet. But should I be worried my client's sites will drop in rank?

I used to always try to clean my pc, go thru proxy, etc, but it just got too much hassle. Especially when I realized that Google probably knows it's me anyway.

Any thoughts? Cause I'm not sure what to do with managing multiple accounts anymore.
 
Same issue. If you do a specific "site: url" for whatever you'd believe should have authorship, it will show, but not naturally in serps.

I've started to try and figure this out against the info listed above, and the only variable not mentioned is how many people have "author" in their circles.

I seem to notice a lot of the existing avatar author images have 300+ people in their circles.
 
Jack77 said:
Do you think G+ will not show authorship results in serps if it is not really my client logging into his social media accounts, but really me?
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That's an interesting thought, and it's not hard data but a lot of people - including myself (I have a specific IP address for a computer) - who were just blogging from their computer lost authorship. Even if they didn't have clients to get their IP addresses mixed up with.

That's good out of the box thinking though. Maybe it's still a factor among other things.
 
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