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I am the owner of a company that imports cars from Germany to the Netherlands. Our website is www.dasimport.nl and has been renewed about one month ago. I implemented the Google authorship sitewide and after a week my photo started to show up. So everything worked fine until yesterday it started to disappear. At this time it doesn't work for the home page but does still work for only a few subpages. For example if you search for "BTW bij importeren auto uit Duitsland" in Google my picture shows up. However if you search directly for Das Import or any term where my homepage ranks on it doesn't show up anymore (it did before). I cannot think of anything that I have done that might have influenced it. My google+ profile picture is still the same. Does anybody have a clue what might have caused this? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Oleksiy, Check out: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/06/08/google-for-business-places-forums-wrapup/ Miriam Ellis linked this a few days ago and it seems to have a lot of good answers. Bottom line is that they are rolling out a program to merge business Google+ pages with the Google+ Local pages that were created from the recent transition. Regarding your email question here is a quote from the linked article: "Be sure that you upgrade your Google account to a Google+ personal account. Life will be much easier if it has the same email as your dashboard account as it will make the coming merge go more smoothly. If your Google+ Business page is created under a different account than your Places listing, then add the email for the Places Dashboard as an additional manager of the G+Business Page." Best of luck, Jason

We recently added a rel="nofollow" tag to our footer links that contained anchor text and, though difficult to know if this was causative, we have seen Google ranking improve overall v.s. 1 month ago and v.s. 1 week ago. In our case, many of those links were referenced at a single source so we were able to make a mass change. A client of ours is doing the same thing, but rather than anchor text, they have an image with a consistent image alt text. I am guessing the same logic would prevail here? Would the alt text be considered in the same way as anchor text? Also, Cyrus, what are your thoughts on using the nofollow tag as a fix? Although your suggestions 1 and 2 seem ideal, is there any thought about why a followed brand name link would be preferred to a nofollow link?