Author Photo No Longer Showing Up in Search

[casper434]

My author photo has been showing up in search for quite some time but starting today I noticed that it no longer does even though the structured data testing tool still has it showing up. It only seems to show up on my google+ profile. Anyone notice the same thing?

[TakeshiYoung]

Google doesn't guarantee showing your profile picture on every result, even if you include authorship markup. Google decides when it's relevant to display the author snippets (by whatever means).

2 recommendations for you:

1. Get a higher resolution photo. You current photo is a little pixelated, and Google will often not display low quality photos.

2. Get more followers on Google+. Your current count is on the low side. I would aim to get at least 500 followers.

Other than that, continue engaging on Google+ and posting good content. Sometimes author snippets will show up one day, disappear the next, and come back again the next day, so don't stress too much about it. If you continue building up your profile as an author, your photo should show back up.

[inlinear]

Hi Brett & Takeshi,

please post if your foto will show up after putting it in a better quality, because I don't believe it might be an issue of the number of followers or content you post on g+ , because I am a good example because having just a few followers and also nearly no post at all... But its working for me. Also my name does not appear on some pages where I put the rel author. So I think there are other reasons.

Best regards,

Holger

[jdeg]

I am having this problem as well. My photo was showing up in all the articles that I write, then one day a month ago they stopped despite not changing anything.

I'm thinking Google changed the threshold on how many followers someone has to have to show up in search results. They must be using it as a qualifier to determine if the author is an authority on the subject.