Rich Snippets With Picture

[SEOWizards]

I recently added rich snippets to my website to link my Google+ with my website so that whenever someone looks at my website on Google search it will show my picture.

It has yet to show up on the search results and I understand this could take a couple weeks.

My question is:

will the authorship/picture of me show up on the Google search results no matter if it is the root domain or a blog/article post, or will it only show up on an article post that someone sees in the Google search results.

I viewed my root domain in the google rich snippets testing tool and it shows my authorship picture but it is not showing up in the SERPS

[stevefidelity]

Hi Matthew,

As you've seen from the rich snippets testing tool, the author pic is showing up for your homepage - it's not just content-oriented blog pages.

It does take time though. Seeing the author pic show up in the testing tool, and having it not show up live is the norm. It can definitely take some time, so be patient. Personally, I believe it took me about 3-4 days from the time everything was properly implemented to the time I started seeing the author pic in search results.

There's been a lot of speculation about why some people implement the markup and see the author pic show up in SERPs in a day, whereas for others it takes a couple weeks. There was a lot of speculation that it had to do with your Google+ activity and the number of people who had circled you, but I've seen enough examples of people with zero G+ activity, and next to no circle activity that have their author pic showing up in SERPs.

A great resource (where all the really smart Authorship people hangout) is Google Authorship & Author Rank G+ community. AJ Kohn (Blind Five Year Old) Bill Slawski & Mark Traphagen are some of the go-to experts on the topic who are very active in that community.

[SEOWizards]

Hey Steve,

That was a great answer, and it was what I was looking for, I appreciate it very much.