Rich Snippets Publisher errors

[sjr4x4]

Hi all.

Happen to do a bit of testing with some of our microformat and microdata markup when I noticed our linked Google+ Publisher markup has stopped working.

It definitely was working, and nothings changed, but now we are flagging errors, and I've noticed some of our competitors also have the same problem.

publisher

linked Google+ page = https://plus.google.com/103929635387487847550
Error: This page does not include verified publisher markup. Learn more.

If I actually add a duplicate rel="publisher" then I get the following results:

Extracted Author/Publisher for this page

publisherlinked Google+ page = https://plus.google.com/103929635387487847550
Error: This page does not include verified publisher markup. Learn more. publisherlinked Google+ page = https://plus.google.com/103929635387487847550/

The second line doesn't seem to flag an error?

I know this is still all pretty new, so is anyone else having problems or odd results, or is Google having some problems?

All our other rich snippets such as reviews etc are working fine, just seems to be the publisher bit.

cheers

Steve

[DanDeceuster]

I think you need to do rel="author" not rel="publisher". You are trying to get your Google+ profile connected to your blog right? So your pic appears in search results? Pretty sure your name must link to an about page with rel="author" and that the about page must link to your Google+ profile.

[sjr4x4]

I'm trying to go the publisher route, ie business pages not author.

Interesting, sit and do nothing, now it reports as verified! All very odd...

Extracted Author/Publisher for this page

publisherlinked Google+ page = https://plus.google.com/103929635387487847550
Verified: Publisher markup is verified for this page. Learn more.