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Hi there! Were you able to sort this out, or not? Please let us know, thanks!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Federico's provided some good advice that I'd like to take a bit further. In order to help you answer Q1, would you mind providing some more details about your site's primarily goals? Regarding Q2, you may want to consider adding unique static content to your category archives and indexing them once you get a solid number of posts build up for each one.

I look forward to hearing from you! In the meantime, here's a great post by Dan Shure about setting up Wordpress sites: Are You Setting Up WordPress for SEO Success?

Cheers,
Christy

Hi Chad,

Here's a great thread from Q&A that offers a few different options for addressing your Hatom feed errors: Wordpress Hatom Problem. To be honest, though, I currently need to address the same issue on one of my own sites, and Authorship rich snippets are showing for all of this site's blog posts in the SERPs.

While I wouldn't ignore the Hatom feed errors altogether, I would change your Google+ profile image to a likeness of yourself right off the bat. Authorship is meant for people, and is why it requires reciprocal linking between an author's article/post and their personal Google+ profile. The Google+ profile you are currently linking to is showing a branded image (vs. your smiling face). I've seen Authorship suddenly start showing for people who updated their avatars from a side profile shot to a full-facing one, from an image with dark glasses to a one without, from one with a busy background to one with a background that makes their portrait pop, from a group shot to individual portrait, etc. And while I have occasionally seen logos show as Authorship snippets, this is the rule, not the exception.

The next thing I would do is enable bylines on your blog posts and articles where this makes sense. Then I'd work on regularly publishing useful, high-quality content for your audience on your website/blog -- and build up your personal Google+ profile. Those are good starting points!

Finally, you should also know that Google has never guaranteed showing rich snippets for Authorship in the SERPs, and recently reduced their presence in the SERPs by 15% about a week ago. You can read more about this in this blog post for Virante by Google Authorship expert Mark Traphagen. Work on becoming known as a quality author who posts on quality websites, though, and this shouldn't be a problem. (Easier said than done, I know. But you can do it!)

I hope this helps. Please let me know how things go, and if you need clarification. Cheers!

Christy

Hi Rich, you've received a couple of good responses. Did they help answer your question? Please give us an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi Aggie,

Well that's a bit of a bummer. But I'm glad you are making it work. Did Raven offer any suggestions, btw? Or, rather, did you ask them for suggestions? I'm curious what they would say.

Thanks for the update!

Kind Wishes,
Christy

Hi Guy,

You've received a couple of great responses here from experienced SEOs. Did they answer your question? Please give us an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi Federico,

I am so sorry you are still experiencing this. Thanks for hanging in there! Say, would you mind emailing the Help Team about this? This should not be happening. Thanks so much for your patience.

Kind Wishes,
Christy

Hi Christopher,

I am truly sorry to hear that. Thanks for giving Moz a try, and best of luck to you.

Kind Wishes,
Christy

Hi Aggie, did you have any luck with those? Please give us an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi there! This Authorship troubleshooting guide by Janet Driscoll Miller may help.

Hi Jen, thanks for the update. I'm very happy that you now have one less headache to deal with. Hooray!

Christy

Hi Christopher, I'm just checking in to make sure the Help Team was able to sort things out for you. Has this issue been resolved?

Hi Ruchi, thanks for your question! Did any of these responses answer it? If so, please mark them as "good responses." Thanks!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! You've received some excellent responses. Did any of them help you resolve your issue? We'd love a status update, thanks!

Christy

Hi Richard,

You received some great responses. Did any of them help? If so, please mark them as "good answers." Thanks!

Christy

Hi Donna, were you able to resolve this issue? We'd love an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi Jen! Were you able to resolve this issue? We'd love a status update, thanks!

Christy

I've set up WP sites on both A Small Orange and WP Engine. I like them both a lot, but WP Engine is my favorite. The extra cost is recouped in time not spent doing constant backups, installing updates, jumping through hoops to set up redirects, etc.

Hi Lana,

Hmm ... did you migrate from Pro to Moz Analytics? As reported on Moz Health, our engineers are fixing an issue where some former Pro users aren't receiving emails. Details are at http://health.moz.com. If this does NOT apply to you, please triple-check your email settings. If they are properly set, please email the Help Team so they can dig into your account. Either way, please let me know what happens. I want to make sure we get you fixed up!

Again, thanks for your patience. You are awesome.

Christy

Hi there! Has this issue been resolved? We'd love to have an update, thanks! (Christy)