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G Very Slow in Updating Name and Photo in SERPs

         

sunnyujjawal

6:39 am on Oct 23, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Google Plus is very slow in updating name and author photo for search results.

Few days before i updated my author photo and name on G+, that time new photo was updated after few hours but name is still pending (approx 7 days).

Today also i update my photo only but still waiting its reflection in search results.

tedster

2:39 am on Oct 24, 2012 (gmt 0)

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If you updated BOTH your name and photo at nearly the same time, I'm mot surprised that the update didn't show in the SERPs within 7 days. In the beginning, it took weeks for the initial photos to begin to show up at all.

Given what we think Google plans for authorship mark-up - the kind of dependence on it in the SERPs and so on - I can imagine that changes might take a good bit of checking out.

lucy24

5:02 am on Oct 24, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Interesting to know. I'd always assumed it was dynamic. That's if I read the OP correctly: the content of the author's profile page has changed, but the author's identity as given on the www page (the link to that long string of numbers with "rel=author") is still the same.

I detoured here to check. You can edit the "name" box in your profile just as easily as anything else. In google's mind, you're a number with attached name, not the other way around.