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I’m trying to set up authorship markup for my site so my photo appears next to my articles in Google searches. I’ve read about three methods and have done the two that are both supposed to work for my scenario, but neither are working.
– I have a Google+ account with a profile picture
– I have an email address that includes the domain name of my site
– I have updated my Google+ profile with that email address
– I have verified my email address with Google+
– I have added my website URL to Google+ in the “contributor to” section
– I have added a link back to my Google+ profile within my author biography section, which appears on all my content pages
– I have updated my email address on my author info pageI’ve probably done more steps that I can’t think of right now. I did read about using a plugin, but it was recommended not to and I’d rather not if I don’t have to.
When I go to the Google Webmaster Tools site and enter a URL for a page of content, it says “Page does not contain authorship markup”.
Further down under “Extracted structured data” it shows info for all my pages of content. For each one, in red it says this:
Error: Missing required field “updated”.
Error: Missing required hCard “author”.My site is http://blissfulmiss.com.
I appreciate your help.
Where you have added the link to your Google+ profile in author bio, try adding it either like this:
<a href="https://plus.google.com/102644894770095775314?rel=author"> My Google Profile</a>
or like this:
<a href="https://plus.google.com/102644894770095775314" rel="author"> My Google Profile</a>
It is also recommended to add a link in the site’s <head> like this:
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/102644894770095775314" />
Thanks Daniel. However, I’m not having trouble linking my Google+ link in my author bio to my Google profile. If it’s working, does it matter which method I use?
Second, can you tell me how to ad the last link you gave to the <head>? Does that have to be done in CSS?
Last, as far as I can tell, my real issue is those errors. I’ve found a few places where people talk about how to fix it, but either it doesn’t seem specific enough to the Pinboard theme to help me, or is just not clear enough. It all involves changing CSS code, which freaks me out after I my site went blank from an error and I was locked out administratively for a few days.
If you could tell me very specifically what altar in the CSS or give me another method to remove the errors, that would be great. Again, they are:
Error: Missing required field “updated”.
Error: Missing required hCard “author”.Thanks so much.
Jen
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