Error Messages in Google Webmaster Tools?

Missing: author
Missing: updated

This is related to microformats that are probably set in your theme’s HTML code. Add-Meta-Tags has nothing to do with it.

In case of the following warning:

Authorship Testing Result
Authorship is not working for this webpage.

This is normal if you haven’t configured Google Authorship for your website.

Hope this helps.

Hi, so for me, if I use webmaster tools to check authorship is working okay on this random post:

https://community.phplist.com/social-media-tips-how-to-make-a-tweet-this-link/

I get

“Authorship is not working for this webpage”

and

Cannot verify that rel=author markup has established authorship for this webpage.
First rel=author link from webpage: https://community.phplist.com/author/anna/
Link (direct or indirect) from website to Google+ profile: No

I have had authorship working with a similar plugin which is now uninstalled, I have added my google plus account to my profile now I am using this plugin

Hi all,

In order to get Google authorship to work properly it is required to add the URL to the author’s profile on Google+ and (optional) the URL to the publisher’s page on Google+. These URLs can be added to your WordPress user profile page under the section Contact Info, fields: Google+ author profile URL (AMT) & Google+ publisher page URL (AMT).

Otherwise, Add-Meta-Tags automatically uses the URL to the first page of the ‘author archive’ of your WP blog in the ‘rel=author’ link. Google does not trust any other profile pages unless they are on Google+.

Hope this helps.

Last but not least, ‘rel=author’ and ‘rel=publisher’ are added only if Schema.org Metadata is enabled. This behavior may change in the future, but this is how it is for now.

Okay, so in my google plus I now have

Contributor to

https://community.phplist.com/author/anna/
community.phplist.com
phplist.com

and in my WP profile I have:

Google+ author profile URL (AMT) plus.google.com/u/0/112310956255698594681

but the advise from webmaster tools is still as above. I think the bit in the post source that is wrong still is

href=”https://community.phplist.com/author/anna/” rel=”author”>Gingerling

so it should be

href=”plus.google.com/u/0/112310956255698594681″ rel=”author”>Gingerling right?

I need to add sechema.org comatible reviews. You someone please guide me?

@gingerling: The hyperlink you refer to cannot be modified by Add-Meta-Tags. It is coded into the theme and links the author name to the author archive. Modifying the theme would be necessary.

Solution:

1) modify the theme and remove the rel="author" part of that hyperlink.
2) then add the full Google+ profile URL (including the https:// part) in the Google+ author profile URL (AMT) field and enable schemma.org metadata in the Add-Meta-Tags configuration panel.

If the page has two links with rel="author" it will most probably confuse Google and it won’t work as expected.

Hope this helps.

@fourprofessionals: Add-Meta-Tags automatically adds schema.org metadata for the post (Article object). Although it is possible to add extra pieces of metadata, like reviews, it requires some work. I highly recommend you find another plugin to add Schema.org reviews. AMT is not the best tool for that job.

Thanks George. Actually my theme supports out of the box review system. But it does not support Schema.org google rich snippet. So i’m looking for a plugin which can just make it to google and not in the post. Because its already there in the post.

Hey, so actually hadding the https:// and enabling schema.org was enough, and I am now seeing green on the webmaster tools. so, to be clear

https:// at start of google plus profile is always necessary
schema.org enabled is always necessary

for authorship to work?

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@fourprofessionals: Please check out the examples on the description page about how you could add/remove/modify the generated metadata. Hope it helps.

@gingerling: Yes, filling in the full URL including the protocol (http or https) is necessary. Also, currently it is required to enable Schema.org metadata, otherwise the ‘rel=author’ link is not added to the head area. This behavior might change in future releases and a separate configuration option might be added.

Also, really glad it worked without having to modify the theme.

@gingerling: Another thing is that the ‘rel=author’ link is not added in your author archive, but only on content pages. This is by design. So, Google authorship won’t work for https://community.phplist.com/author/anna/. Add-Meta-Tags treats the author archive page as the author’s profile page on the WordPress site.

Blogged it here: https://community.phplist.com/how-to-enable-google-authorship-rich-snippets-on-your-phplist-community-blog/