Since authorship markup requires a domain email, how can a community website allow users to link their Google+ profile?
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It seems that Google now requires authors to have a valid email on the domain. This is easy for the traditional web publication. But what about community websites like SEOmoz?
How can a community website allow users to link their Google+ profile?
Will community websites like SEOmoz be required to
1. Give all users a domain email
2. Ask users to validate the email address with Google?
Seems overly complicated.
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The write would be able to link up the profile via a Rel=Author Tag. You can learn more about Rel Author tags here.
Here is a good article about Rel Authorship from Search Engineland
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