Google Authorship Error

In the Google Structured Data Testing Tool Authorship the results show ‘Authorship is working for this webpage’ however my profile is not showing (works on other sites) I have 2 errors below which could be the reason.

Error: Missing required hCard “author”.

Error: No rich snippet will be generated for this data, because it appears to include multiple reviews of an item, but no aggregate review information.

Have I missed something?

Hi Marius

Yes I use SEO by Yoast. The posts show as authorship working but in the ‘Structured Data Testing Tool’ the image wont display

example post: funeventsasia.com/raft-building/

BTW I am also a photographer which I believe you do also!

Regards

Toni

Hi Marius

The photo is fine and showing on all my other sites. The strange thing is in Google Verification it shows verified but no image shows up. I may just turn the posts into reviews and go for the stars instead!

Thanks for the compliment on my images and taking the time to look! I am not a professional but I am crazy about photography. My equipment used for the Macro shots were: Sony A77 camera, Tamron 90mm Macro and a Kenko extension tube. Some of the shots were hand held with no flash.

Regards

Toni

Sorry Marius I wasn’t clear. I understand Google will only show in search results ….. but what I meant was that your image would still show in the Google ‘Structured Data Testing Tool. regardless of the end result. In the Google verification tool my authorship has been verified but the image wont show. I had something like this before on my site when it had ‘reviews’ enabled! It stopped the image showing in the Google test site!

• This reply was modified 12 years by ToniLaird.

Forgot to mention even the reviews/ratings don’t show and I have this error

Error: Missing required hCard “author”.

• This reply was modified 12 years by ToniLaird.

hi,
when it comes to google there is nothing that we can do.
we are sorry to hear about your issues, if it was an issue with theme there would be more people complaining about this about this.

Thanks for you message.
Radu A.

Hi Radu

The theme is fantastic and no matter what I will use and work around it. 😉

I discovered that turning on the ‘show author box’ solved the ‘hatom-feed hatom-entry Error’ This is now fine. I can now see the rating stars in Google but my image wont show because of this:

Error: No rich snippet will be generated for this data, because it appears to include multiple reviews of an item, but no aggregate review information

Replies to this in the WordPress forum: There’s something wrong with the rating block/plugin average rating configuration.

Could you possible take a look at my site. It could be like my hatom-feed where simply I haven’t enabled something. If we can’t get this working I’ll just turn all the posts into ratings from stars. It is a fantastic theme and I appreciate your support

Can you please take a look as all I had dome was change the theme. It has been working for the last few years and I have found other posts here with the same problem. It is not showing because of this error as in WordPress forums and Google:

Error: No rich snippet will be generated for this data, because it appears to include multiple reviews of an item, but no aggregate review information.

Does the rating stop working if I simply don’t publish any? I bought another theme ‘Smartmag’ which works fine.

Am I able to totally disable the ratings as this may well fix the authorship photo?

• This reply was modified 12 years by ToniLaird.

Just a quick update. The image doesn’t show in the Google verification but it is now showing in the Google search. The start ratings however don’t show at the moment. 😉

Note that the Google verification thing sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Much like trying to sign up for their site search – went to a not found page for a month (!). It’s not always YOU, but THEM.

I couldn’t agree with you more Christopher. I could write a whole Blog on the issues I have found with Google! I heard this once recently from a news channel ‘Has Google become uncontrollable monsters!’ Let’s not get me started lol

I spoke too soon. It only shows Google Authorship in Chrome if I’m logged into my Google+ account. I also find Page 2, page 3 being indexed in Google although I have ‘Noindex subpages of archives’ enabled in Yoast!

• This reply was modified 12 years by ToniLaird.