: Google Plus is using value of 'name' property (from Schema.org Person) as site title I added Schema.org’s Person - suddenly Google Plus is using the name property as site title! Is this a

@Caterina187

If you are posting on Google+, it might help if you have set up the rel="author" (or rel="publisher") reciprocal links between the site and the G+ profile.

But that is just a guess, even though Google's terms now permit data sharing between their properties I don't know that it would extend to helping G+ instantaneously sort out something like that but it can't hurt...Ilmari's comment seemed pretty sound to me.

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@Hamaas447

I suspect it's because that Person schema is the only schema used on the page, so Google is assuming that the whole page is supposed to be about the person, and that all the other stuff around it is just irrelevant fluff, at least as far as microdata is concerned.

You may want to try marking the whole page as an Article or a Web Page or some other Creative Work, and marking the Person item as describing an author of that work (with itemprop="author").

Actually, the WebPage schema says that "every web page is implicitly assumed to be declared to be of type WebPage", so just adding itemprop="author" to your div might fix it:

<div itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<li>Written by: <a rel="author" href="url"> <span itemprop="name">Name</span></a></li>
<li> <a itemprop="email" href="mailto:email@gmail.com">Contact</a></li>
</div>

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