Hello I am trying to get working sport club logo in google result.
I created google plus page for this club and connecting it with
<a href="https://plus.google.com/112065979798815979924?rel=publisher">
show excepted result (at least in webmaster tools)
Trouble gets on the scene when I want also to have autorship (site conncected with private G+ profile) with
<a href="https://plus.google.com/100752846294347823044?rel=author">
In this case club logo dissapears an my (empty) profile picture appears here.
In the real search results publisher logos are not shown yet.
Also, publisher markup is only needed on the home page where author markup generaly does not make sense.
Related
I say I have a section of a page like this (rough HTML to give an idea):
www.mydomain.com/contact-us
<div class="regional-offices">
<div class="south-west">
South West
<div class="south-west-content">South west office address</div>
</div>
<div class="north-east">
North East
<div class="north-east-content">North east office address</div>
</div>
...
...
Currently, these are a set of accordions that expand to show the content when the link is clicked. What I would like to do is treat them as individual URLs so that they can be seperately indexed by Google, as of course at the moment they are just part of a single page.
I have been researching the History API and can see how I would do this as far as creating unique URLs for each section, but where my understanding falls down is how Google or other search engines will handle these links if the required info is already part of the page and not stored at its own seperate URL.
For instance, the first step would be to change the <a> tag to be something like:
North East
We can then use JS to preventDefault() going directly to the URL, and instead provide the user with an expanded accordion, bring the page scroll down to the accordion and a unique URL using the History API. This is all well and good if we visit the URL directly, or click any of the links.
But the problem is that as far as I know, the Google crawler will try to follow the link and be faced with a 404 because there's no Javascript preventing access to the resource in the URL. And nor do I want there to be.
Or is it the case that I will need a unique location holding the contents of the accordion, which is indexable, and also pulled in with AJAX when a collapsed accordion is interacted with?
Apologies if I haven't made anything clear.
I had to deal with the same thing. What I did was to make a rewrite rule so that the link that google follow is actually posted to the page that handle the the request. to display the data. Angular might save you a lot of trouble to dealing with accordions.
I have set up my google+ account with everything linked to my website, my website linking to Google+ as per instructions, but photo is not showing in search results, even though the google testing says all is fine.
My site is www.mikegeorgiades.com (Google+ link code in homepage).
My Google+ page is https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105269586899946171489/+Mikegeorgiades-guitarist-for-hire
Is there any reason why the test would appear OK but not for real? Is there a lag? Thanks!
that can have multiple reasons:
On their help pages the Google guys wrote that "Your Google+ profile picture should be a good, recognisable head-shot". When you browse the web via Google’s search engine you probably see a lot of images which do not show “good, recognisable head-shots”. I think it belongs to Google whether the picture shows up or not.
Google Authorship does not work when you link to a Google+ business page instead of a real profile page.
You did not add a link back from your site to your Google+ page (see this help page (Option 2)).
Your author info is hidden to the public. Google don't like hidden stuff. Make sure that your reciprocal backlink is not hidden via CSS.
Very obvious: Your Google+ profile has no profile picture.
Your site is cached and the backlink is not yet integrated into the source code. Try to clear your cache.
Your backlink is missing the rel="author" attribute.
Your backlink is missing the ?rel=author attribute in the URL (ex. href="http://plus.google.com/u/0/123456789/?rel=author")
Check that your E-Mail Address (if added to your Google+ profile) is on the same domain as your content (read more about it here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986)
Make sure that the byline of your content includes the same name as in your Google+ profile. For example: When your Google+ Profile is "John Doe" your byline has to be "By John Doe" and not "By Doe John" or anything else.
You have not submitted your E-Mail address via this page: http://plus.google.com/authorship
Your Google+ profile is not visible to the public.
Your Google+ profile has been excluded to the search (so no one can find you via Google`s search engine).
There are multiple authors on one page. Google always uses only the first author that has been mentioned on a page.
You did not add your website to "Contributor To" section (click here to do that now: http://plus.google.com/me/about/edit/co)
The "Contributor To" section is not visible to the public.
The Rich Snippet Testing Tool throws errors (even if they are not related to authorship)
Last but not least: Google just does not want to display your profile picture
Update 1: More reasons can be:
Some users said that it also won't work when your website was not confirmed as yours in Google Webmaster Tools.
Some said that they got it to work after adding the same URL in Google+ as in Google Webmaster tools (Within Google webmaster tools you can setup the preferred domain (www or non-www).)
I'm not working at Google but I think when the Rich Snippet Testing Tool shows your picture it should appear in search results after some days.
Update 2: One more:
You have deactivated the option that noone can find your picture in Googles search results. To solve this go to https://www.google.com/settings/plus and scroll down to the "Profile" section. Activate the checkbox beside "Help others discover my profile in search results." (in German this is: "Andere sollen mein Profil in Suchergebnissen finden können").
Update 3: One more:
John Mueller (Webmaster Trends Analyst # Google) announced that in the near future Google will not longer show the profile picture in search results. Instead it will show up on Google News only. However the name will still show up on search results pages. Preview image can be found here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986
I recently experienced my photo disappearing from the search results and I, too, verified that everything else was correct under the structured data testing tool. At first my photo snippet was showing in the SERP but then it vanished. I was also trying different profile photos. I had one with dimensions of 400x400 pixels and another one with dimensions of 256x256 pixels. I didn't fully verify it, but Google apparently didn't like my 400x400 photo. Google wants a clear profile photo of your face. Perhaps some algorithm found my larger photo too grainy or something along those lines. Changing my photo back to the 256x256 version caused my photo to reappear in the search results! I'd suggest trying different dimensions, different photo formats, perhaps even changing the color profile. The search results were updated fairly quickly after I uploaded a working photo. Seems like I saw results in under an hour, YMMV.
You can refer to the photo I used, along with my Contributor to links, at my Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/108810746834291116055. The page that I have my authorship set at is http://blog.ikiapps.com using rel=author.
Update on 2014-Apr-27:
I can confirm my advice worked for me again after completely changing my Google profile to another account and losing the visibility of my authorship associated photo in search results for a brief period of time. It is now restored after following what I posted here.
I have a page that consist of a daily updated front page with every day archived in a sub-page. The sub pages are either a funny picture or a joke. The pictures and jokes have a like and share option (for facebook, stumbleupon and pinit for instance), which obviously link to the picture or joke in question. I'm puzzled what to do with the google plus button though.
What is good pratice? Link to google plus with the link straight to the picture (sub-page) or set it up to share the main page?
so this:
<div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" //...// data-href="http://www.amazingjokes.com/"></div>
or this:
<div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" //...// data-href="http://www.amazingjokes.com/?view=img&date=2013-06-16"></div>
Thanks
I would concur with what Scarygami says, but also add that this may be a scenario where an interactive post/share might be appropriate as well. You could have the shared info go to your top level page, and a "Visit" button go to the more specific sub-page.
Really depends on what you want to do.
Linking the +1-Button to your main page will have an accumulated count for your page, while linking it to the picture will have a count per-picture which I think would make more sense in your scenario.
Of course you can have an additional +1-Button for your main page so people can show their appreciation for your page in general. If you have a Google+ Page associated with your site you could also use a page badge for this.
I am trying to put a Google+ badge on my recently created websites at sites.google.com. When I copy the code and paste it into the HTML box actually nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong?
You can use to insert a Google+ Badge into your Google Sites pages using a custom gadget:
Get your Google+ profile ID, which you can get from the URL of your profile. The ID would be 123456789012345678901 for this URL: https://plus.google.com/123456789012345678901/ or would be +LarryPage for this URL: https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/
Edit the page that you want to add the badge
Choose Insert-> ...More gadgets...
Search for G+ Badge.
Paste your profile ID into the G+ ID field.
Configure additional options as necessary for your page. You might need to adjust dimensions of the gadget container to get the badge to work well in your site.
Gadgets have limitations, this might not work perfectly but its probably the best way to get a badge onto your page.
There is a configuration tool for the Google+ Badge that you can find at https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/.
The key points are that you need to add the HTML as a widget and include the JavaScript tag--which is the same JavaScript that loads any of our Google+ attributes.
I also made a 3 minute video explaining these steps last year, which you can view at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLG4IIIPgnc.
I have been looking at rich snippets in google. Google lists the following schema.org items as being supported:
Reviews
People
List item
Products
Businesses and organizations
Recipes
Events Music
I have noticed that in search results, Google displays Rich Snippets for Article and BlogPosting. When clicking on the link and using Firebug to check the source code, I can see that the schema.org being used is indeed BlogPosting.
I've tried adding BlogPosting to my sample code and using Google's Rich Snippet tool to check the results but I cant get an image to display. I am using the following code:
<html>
<body> etc etc....
<div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
<img itemprop="image" href="/images/test.jpg" item>
</div>
...
Although it doesn't show the image in the Rich Snippet tool, it does recognize that an image has been set and displays the url text in the "Extracted rich snippet data from the page" box. I have tried using the SoftwareApplication schema and then I get an image to show.
My question is: Does the Rich Snippet tool restrict the images it shows based on the schemas listed above, and actually once in the live search results, Rich Snippets for Article and BlogPostings will be shown?
Google has introduced Rich Snippet for Articles, so you can now use articles snippet for your article/blog post.
See this official document from Google on implementing rich snippet for your articles: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/articles
And as far as your image issue is concerned, try to apply the snippet code as per the document above and it should show the image. I tested it and all worked fine.
As of now, Google is not going to display product images in SERPS for schema.org/Article or schema.org/BlogPosting item types. It's going to show the Author profile image that it pulls from Google+ using one of two methods:
https://plus.google.com/authorship
... think about it. Everyone would be trying to attach add some (spammy) image next to their blog post in SERPS. Google only wants to show verified authorship by their authentification methods (via G+) -- not just from any "author" tag in microdata.
Yes, the rich snippet tool will not show you what the actual SERP will always look like, because it depends on the query. In fact they say
Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for
this page on actual search results.