On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:37:22 AM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

> Hi guys,

> Taking into consideration the linking of Blogger blogs to G+ accounts, and
> the additions of meta information being supplied by the settings in a
> Blogger site, currently seeing that the linked profile image for the G+
> account takes priority over the og:image thumbnail that is created in the
> Google Rich Snippets tester:

> http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http...

> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better method to achieve this goal
> of having the thumbnail image for the blog post be shown instead of the
> connected author profile?

> Thank you!

> -David

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:47 AM, DarkUFO <andypag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I add this tag to my IMG tag images so that it picks the correct one.

>  itemprop="image"

> If G+ sees this it will show it first by default.

> On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:37:22 AM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

>> Hi guys,

>> Taking into consideration the linking of Blogger blogs to G+ accounts,
>> and the additions of meta information being supplied by the settings in a
>> Blogger site, currently seeing that the linked profile image for the G+
>> account takes priority over the og:image thumbnail that is created in the
>> Google Rich Snippets tester:

>> http://www.google.com/**webmasters/tools/richsnippets?**
>> view=cse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.**abushelofwhat.com%2F2012%2F08%**
>> 2Forzo-salad.html<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http...>

>> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better method to achieve this goal
>> of having the thumbnail image for the blog post be shown instead of the
>> connected author profile?

>> Thank you!

>> -David

On Monday, August 20, 2012 1:22:22 PM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

> Hi Andy,

> While great for G+, I'm trying to get it to show the thumbnail for that
> image in the Google search results in the rich snippet. Using your site as
> an example it is showing the thumbnail for your G+ icon and a link to that
> instead of using the specified thumbnail in your own pages:  
> http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2F...

> Could it be because the thumbnail images aren't hosted on the same domain
> as the page?

> I've tried removing the G+ badget but now it just isn't linking to the
> author, and still isn't showing the thumbnail.

> -David

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:47 AM, DarkUFO <andyp...@gmail.com <javascript:>
> > wrote:

>> I add this tag to my IMG tag images so that it picks the correct one.

>>  itemprop="image"

>> If G+ sees this it will show it first by default.

>> On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:37:22 AM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

>>> Hi guys,

>>> Taking into consideration the linking of Blogger blogs to G+ accounts,
>>> and the additions of meta information being supplied by the settings in a
>>> Blogger site, currently seeing that the linked profile image for the G+
>>> account takes priority over the og:image thumbnail that is created in the
>>> Google Rich Snippets tester:

>>> http://www.google.com/**webmasters/tools/richsnippets?**
>>> view=cse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.**abushelofwhat.com%2F2012%2F08%**
>>> 2Forzo-salad.html<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http...>

>>> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better method to achieve this
>>> goal of having the thumbnail image for the blog post be shown instead of
>>> the connected author profile?

>>> Thank you!

>>> -David

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM, DarkUFO <andypag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah I see what you mean, sorry I misunderstood the question :)

> For og:image I actually hard code that to our logo rather than any image
> in the posts.

> I think you'll need to set og:image to point to one of the images on your
> actual post.

> Hopefully Brett from Google will be able to answer that for sure. I've not
> played around too much with the search indexing aspect.

> On Monday, August 20, 2012 1:22:22 PM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

>> Hi Andy,

>> While great for G+, I'm trying to get it to show the thumbnail for that
>> image in the Google search results in the rich snippet. Using your site as
>> an example it is showing the thumbnail for your G+ icon and a link to that
>> instead of using the specified thumbnail in your own pages:
>> http://www.google.com/**webmasters/tools/richsnippets?**
>> url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.**spoilertv.com%2F2012%2F08%**
>> 2Fthe-2012-stv-favourite-tv-**series_19.html<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2F...>

>> Could it be because the thumbnail images aren't hosted on the same domain
>> as the page?

>> I've tried removing the G+ badget but now it just isn't linking to the
>> author, and still isn't showing the thumbnail.

>> -David

>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:47 AM, DarkUFO <andyp...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I add this tag to my IMG tag images so that it picks the correct one.

>>>  itemprop="image"

>>> If G+ sees this it will show it first by default.

>>> On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:37:22 AM UTC+1, David Kutcher wrote:

>>>> Hi guys,

>>>> Taking into consideration the linking of Blogger blogs to G+ accounts,
>>>> and the additions of meta information being supplied by the settings in a
>>>> Blogger site, currently seeing that the linked profile image for the G+
>>>> account takes priority over the og:image thumbnail that is created in the
>>>> Google Rich Snippets tester:

>>>> http://www.google.com/**webmaste**rs/tools/richsnippets?**view=**
>>>> cse&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.**abush**elofwhat.com%2F2012%2F08%**2Forz**
>>>> o-salad.html<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=cse&url=http...>

>>>> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better method to achieve this
>>>> goal of having the thumbnail image for the blog post be shown instead of
>>>> the connected author profile?

>>>> Thank you!

>>>> -David

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