Authorship's Back. Could a custom URL be why?

[KempRugeLawGroup]

Hey Everyone,

First, thanks to everyone for providing me suggestions on how to get my authorship picture back. Sure enough, we did it get it back, but not for any reason that makes sense to me. We got it back within hours of changing our g+ url to a custom one (google provided us with one a few months ago, but I didn't like it, so I didn't change it). Well, now I figured, why not? We have to do something to get our authorship back, and after making that change within hours, we had our picture displaying again.

While I know this could be a coincidence, we haven't written anything new since we lost it in mid December. So, it can't be some influx of great content. And, since google is getting more strict about authorship, I don't see how we would have lost it in the first place, only to get it back without anything additional worked on yet. The only change is the custom URL. I know this is not ANY sort of scientific proof, but I figured I'd just throw my experience out there for others to see. Could this be the reason? Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

Good luck to everyone else who is working on getting their picture back! Though I can't tell you how to do it, I can tell you it can change back within a few weeks.

Best,

Ruben

[HealthLotteryMan]

Hi Ruben,

As it's been sometime since you were offered the new URL and you lost your image then it could potentially be an issue on Google's side. Let's not forget the social network is relatively new and has had it's fair share of issues.

Just an update for anyone who may of lost their picture on Google+, I would try and re upload it but rename it and possible adjust the size slightly to show Google it's a new image. I've had my image before the new URL structure and after and everything has worked fine to date

[Dr-Pete]

Interesting - thanks. It's a bit hard to pin down, because Google has been changing the "volume" on authorship mark-up a lot these past two months, and that means both up and down on any given day. Authorship also seems to be page-based and probably query-based, which means any given site could have and not have the mark-up depending on the page and/or query in play. It's a real-time evaluation on Google's part.