Comments on: Google+ Promotes Publisher Tag for Local Listings

By: Eric Marshall

Eric Marshall — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:04:57 +0000

Mike,

Have you noticed that Google will not “support” rel=publisher for local web design, seo agencies, etc.? Publisher markup is verified for our site, according to the structured data testing tool, and it has been for months, yet we don’t get the full Google+ preview for brand related searches. I’m guessing this is because of the same reasons they don’t display local/maps packs for the same types of agencies. Any thoughts/feedback?

By: Casey Halloran

Casey Halloran — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:43:40 +0000

It’s good to hear that they are getting their stuff back together because the previous versions have been nearly useless, hopefully now it’s gonna be super easy and simple to use and do whatever you want, anyways, thanks for sharing it with us.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:23:50 +0000

@Nathan Publisher on the home page used to, but no longer conflicts with authorship on the same page. Having both does NOT affect whether the author image shows. See this example.

By: Nathan K Smith

Nathan K Smith — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:42:07 +0000

Hi Michael,

I recently had rel=publisher on my home page and rel=author on all my other pages and posts (wordpress). At this time I have not found a way or read about anyway to add them both to one page at the same time.

I think they conflict with each other and having both may disable the photo that appears in the serps.

Your thoughts?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:26:05 +0000

As far as I know, yes you will need to add the rel=publisher tag to each location page if you have multiple locations. You can even add unique authors to different pages. Do it right and when you use the Google data testing tool you should see success across the board.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:21:37 +0000

Hi Nathan,

Yes go for both Publisher and Author, not sure about wordpress plugin but I am sure Yoost wont be far behind. As Google implements these new things we just have to persevere. By the way, don’t bother trying to get a company logo to show, although some of the big brands do. google would like to se the real people only.

Cheers
Virginia

By: Nathan K Smith

Nathan K Smith — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:17:29 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Mike!

So it’s ok for your HOME page to have both rel-author and rel=publisher? Do you have an idea where on the WP dashboard you can do that? There is only one place in WP dashboard and one place in Yoast dashboard to add Google + links.

Currently my home page is the only one that does not have rel=author. All the others do.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:12:26 +0000

@Nathan
You have it 99% of the way there. If you want your author photo to show in local results you will also need to add rel=author to your home page. In the past Google couldn’t handle that but they can now.

By: Nathan K Smith

Nathan K Smith — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:10:10 +0000

So what is the best way to set up both and where should rel=author and rel=publisher appear in your website source code?

I use wordpress genesis site and have the Yoast seo plugin
**In the user section on WP there is the section to enter google Authorship link
**In the Yoast dashboard there is a place to enter google publisher link.

When I check my source code…….I see rel=publisher only on the home page, however ALL my other WordPress Pages and Posts have rel=author.

Does that sound correct?

By: Ryan Custodio

Ryan Custodio — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:25:16 +0000

@Daniel.

Great analogy! That should really clear up most of these questions..