Author Images Dumped in Google Rich Snippets

Few SERPs changes noticed this weekend. Has Google dumped author snippets in SERPs? Earlier Google has restricted author snippets, Not all author snipets are showing in search engine result pages. The latest change in author snippets is they have remove author images. Now google is just showing author name.

Does anyone noticed traffic drop due to author snippets in their websites? Change is the rule of nature as well of google. But are you all satisfied with the latest change in google.

Now the rich snippet testing tools also not shwoing author image. Eariler the restricted websites showing author image while testing in this tool. But now no website is reflecting author image.

Test your website pages in rich snippet testing tool here. You can also test other google rich snippets in this testing tool for reviews, comments, price etc.

Author Rich Snippets