Authorship gone!

[Mike Pedersen]

Anyone seeing their authorship disappear?

 

[OmegaMan]

I just did a Google search with your name and it still shows up


Mine was down last week for 2 days IDKW

 

[Linda Buquet]

Did ranking drop?

Authorship usually only shows for the top 2 - 4 in the pack that are controlled by organic because authorship happens on the organic side of the house. The lower 3 - 7 are back filled from maps. And how many organic are on top totally varies based on competition in that market. So if you drop your authorship won't show.

 

[whitespark]

Authorship photos disappeared from all packs when the big change happened in local a couple weeks ago. You can only see authorship photos in organic now. Also, during his SMX keynote, Matt Cutts said that you can expect Google to start tightening up authorship in the coming months. In other words, unless you're clearly an active author that engages on G+, you might see your photo drop from the SERPs.


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[Mike Pedersen]

Rankings are good for this client.

B in the maps and 3 in organics. No image showing for authorship now

QUOTE=Linda Buquet;29087]Did ranking drop?

Authorship usually only shows for the top 2 - 4 in the pack that are controlled by organic because authorship happens on the organic side of the house. The lower 3 - 7 are back filled from maps. And how many organic are on top totally varies based on competition in that market. So if you drop your authorship won't show.[/QUOTE]

 

[Colan Nielsen]

Mike,

Linda and Darren are correct.

However, if it is an issue with the authorship itself, check out this awesome Google Authorship Troubleshooting article with flowchart.

Infographic: How To Troubleshoot Google Authorship Issues, A Step-By-Step Flowchart!

 

[baltimoreseocompany]

same to me..packs are gone, organic still shows authorship..

 

[seoWest]

My client's authorship mugshot vanished from organic results as well.
After wasting an hour or so troubleshooting to no avail, I discovered something Barry Schwartz wrote which is spot-on with what Darren mentioned:

http://searchengineland.com/confirmed-google-reduces-authorship-rich-snippets-in-search-results-180313

Our foremost local competitor's authorship mugshot remains, however, I know for a fact they are simply using the markup on pages with slim content he didn't author.

Bummer.