Google Authorship - flakier than a bucket of Popeye's crispy chicken.
So I'm trying to get Google Authorship to work for one of my articles. When I test it using the Google Rich Snippet Tool, it shows up as working. Then I see it in Google search results and it doesn't work. Meanwhile, a bunch of other articles work, while a bunch don't. Oddly enough, they all share the same template, which means Google Authorship is randomly working.
Google Authorship is pretty useful. No doubt adding a picture to your article in search results boosts traffic. And I see it can be expanded for other things too- ratings, recipe thumbnails, e-commerce.
But Google Authorship doesn't seem stable. And from doing a search, a lot of other bloggers agree. And even worse - you can only test it as often as it gets index updated, meaning a very slow testing process.
So is it me, or is Google Authorship just no worth the time investment? That is, until Google develops it more and makes it predictable?