Google+ brand display in SERPs

Google+ brand display in SERPs - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google, google-search, search-results, google-plus to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Google+ brand display in SERPs.Problem :

Until very recent past, when someone searched for our brand name on Google, our G+ page preview with latest post showed up on the sidebar of SERPs.

However, it has just disappeared and we have checked that rel=publisher tags are implemented in SERPs correctly.

We have had a lot of activity on the Google+ page recently and if anything, Google would have improved our display.

Is it possible that Google is thinking that increased activity on our G+ page is spam??

Solution :

having rel publisher tags does not guarantee google will show the brand associated with the Google+ brand page.

Few things you want to check.
1. Make sure you have not recently chosen and new URL for your google+ page (changing from # to something custom).
2. Make sure that this is happening when you request the raw page. Actually type the full url in search and see what is happening.

ALternativly you can use Google's new markup for RichSnippets and include Organization details:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146861?hl=en

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> 
   <span itemprop="name">L'Amourita Pizza</span> 
   Located at 
   <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
      <span itemprop="streetAddress">123 Main St</span>,
      <span itemprop="addressLocality">Albuquerque</span>,
      <span itemprop="addressRegion">NM</span>.
   </div>
  <img itemprop="logo" src="http://www.example.com/logo.png" />
   Phone: <span itemprop="telephone">206-555-1234</span>
   <a href="http://pizza.example.com/" itemprop="url">http://pizza.example.com</a>
</div>  

Upon further investigation, it seems like a bug with Google plus. http://searchengineland.com/google-loses-real-estate-search-brand-boxes-dropped-logged-users-203567

If the issue about google, google-search, search-results, google-plus is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.