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I used the instructions on the article How To Implement Rel=Author for creating my page. The only difference is that I had two rel=author links instead of one. I then tested the page with Google's rich snippets testing tool, and the first author that was linked was displayed as if it were the only author. The second author was not displayed at all. Multiple ...

Pull up the two Google profiles in consecutive tabs. Switch to the "About" tab in both. See how yours has that "Other profiles" section at right, with a link back to scirra.com? Ashley's doesn't. The verification process looks at the Google profile page for a backlink to the claiming site. See here, second bullet under "Associate your content with your ...

No, the DOCTYPE should not affect the Google author feature. However, I would make sure your pages validate. If you have deemed that this is not working because the author information does not appear in the search results then keep in mind that Google is still trialling this feature and states that: Google doesn't guarantee to show author information in ...

My personal opinion is that it's OK, assuming: You explicitly get the client's permission beforehand. I think it's presumptuous and unprofessional to just put your name on a design that has been commissioned by a paying client. That design and website is their property. You may have a clause in the contract that allows you to put the design in your ...

As with just about everything Google, setting up the information isn't necessarily a guarantee they're going to use it. If you've set up the code and the testing tools say everything's fine, that's about all you can do. For what it's worth, I don't see author snippets for anybody using your link above. Also, the author snippets are still being "piloted" and ...

According to the HTML5 Working Draft: The author keyword may be used with link, a, and area elements. This keyword creates a hyperlink. For a and area elements, the author keyword indicates that the referenced document provides further information about the author of the nearest article element ancestor of the element defining the hyperlink, ...

I couldn't find any author-specific information, but the HTML specs do allow you to define more than one link with the same relationship, e.g. <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="//de.example.com/my/page.htm"> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-gb" href="//uk.example.com/my/page.htm"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ...

I personally don't add them on client websites. In web design contracts you should outline this and let the client know that it's optional and you'll only do it with their connect. You could also add it into meta information see this question Standard way to mention website's developer One way isn't any better than another, though a text link can pass ...

rel=author is part of HTML5, so you don't have to link it to a Google profile. However Google are saying that if you link it to a Google profile then they may display your picture in search results. They are choosing to use their search engine product to promote their profile product. This post is more reassuring: The markup uses existing standards such ...

In this case how do i add link back in Google plus contributor section? is just linking from my website to Google plus enough? Absolutely! Simply link to their Google Plus account, ensure that you only ever have one link on a page at a time otherwise it doesn't work, you can read more by using the link below (No need to do option 1). If you don't want ...

Google will only list one Author per a site on one page of results. Since you are doing the search query "site: your domain" you are pulling up results of your domain and only 1 authorship will be listed in the serps. Your pages are working as intended. How to Test There is 2 really good methods of testing your urls to see if the rich snippets are ...

The warning part : Using copyrighted material on a website without the right of using it isn't a good idea. It could be fine for several years and you would be super happy, your website would have grown etc. And then on day, in the mailbox, you'll find that letter saying you've used a copyrighted picture for X years, so you'll have to pay x xxxx,xx$ for ...

Google+ is a young social network and I think you cannot use company for authorship; it must be an employee. But I agree it's not pratical because employee can leave the company. We must wait Google+ grows to use this kind of possibilities. More useful information in this article.

Yes. Mashable has a good rundown on setting up a G+ brand page and you can find out how to implement authorship information in this answer to "How do I get my Google+ picture to show up on Google searches?"