: Google Rich Snippets: automatically detected author name on webpage: not found I am having trouble with Google Rich Snippets, on the verification authorship, I am getting this error: Email

@Courtney195

I had the exact same issue. It's really fiddly. I had several errors I needed to fix.


My first problem was that my posts were not showing up as "Mat Ellis" (my Google Profile name) but as my Wordpress user ID "matellis". I had to change my "Full Name" to match my Google Profile settings. See the screencap.
My second problem was that I was confusing Publisher-ship and Authorship, and so I was using a Google Page as my link instead of my profile. You can see the difference between my page and my profile.
The next thing was an error in the Google docs. It doesn't explain you have to add ?rel=author to your Profile link. I also added this to the a tag. So my link went from:

<a href="//plus.google.com/113473027594498160821?psrc=3">


to:

<a href="//plus.google.com/113473027594498160821?rel=author" rel="author">


Doing these three things got my structured data test to work fine, see this example.


The whole process was time consuming and frustrating, made worse by Wordpress.com seeming complete lack of interest in any up-to-date SEO tools. I hope this is helpful.

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@Pierce454

PeggyP is right. There exist two quote symbols, and some word-processing apps use to mess them up. The equivalent for " (and right one) is " (see two perfectly vertical comas). But you've misspelled it in your metatag and you've used the other one (the wrong one), which looks like an italique " (two oblique comas). Have a care look to the quote symbol in your link rel author metatag as shown in PeggyP picture. I've also made this error tons of times.
You can compare the quotes in your other metatags, as they are correct. It's only wrong in your rel=author metatag line.

Your current line (wrong):

link rel=”author” href=”https://plus.google.com/100940214614580829424/posts”

The one you should have:

link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/100940214614580829424/posts"

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@Shakeerah822

Now your byline goes like this:


Written by Nabin Nepal


Change it to this:


Written by Nabin Nepal (Starx)


This way the name corresponds to the name on your Google+ profile.

See this: plus.google.com/authorship

Make sure your byline name matches the name on your Google+ profile.

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@Cugini213

Kindly follow these steps to get it worked fine: blog.kissmetrics.com/google-authorship/
Checkout this image of source code:

I think, you might have added this code from word (copy paste) so " will not fetch properly in HTML. Just edit it and url reference will start pointing your google profile.

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