Title: Google   Optimization with Esquire Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Google Optimization with Esquire Theme

 *  Resolved [Emily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yy4u96/)
 * (@yy4u96)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-optimization-with-esquire-theme/)
 * Hi Everyone,
 * I’m trying to optimize my authors with Google + and haven’t been able to do it
   in Esquire in a way that I like. This is what it looks like now: [http://www.oh-i-see.com/blog](http://www.oh-i-see.com/blog).
   You can see my by line under the title of the article with the posting date. 
   Since our theme already shows the date in the flag, I don’t want the date next
   to the by line, but when it’s not there, Google doesn’t pick it up. I put it 
   in white text for a while, but heard that penalizes my Google score. Does anyone
   know? How are you guys resolving this issue?
 * Thanks,
    Emily

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 *  [Lance Willett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lancewillett/)
 * (@lancewillett)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-optimization-with-esquire-theme/#post-3464062)
 * Hi Emily,
    I haven’t run into this—but you could check for plugins that manage
   Google+ for you (regardless of the theme).
 *  Thread Starter [Emily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yy4u96/)
 * (@yy4u96)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-optimization-with-esquire-theme/#post-3464063)
 * Hi Lance,
 * I checked with Google+ and have decided to keep the date in the byline visible.
   That seems to be the best solution; if somewhat redundant.
 *  [Lance Willett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lancewillett/)
 * (@lancewillett)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-optimization-with-esquire-theme/#post-3464064)
 * OK—good to know; good info for next time this comes up (regardless of the theme,
   anyway).

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 * [date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date/)
 * [google author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/google-author/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Lance Willett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lancewillett/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-optimization-with-esquire-theme/#post-3464064)
 * Status: resolved