Using Rel=Author with Multiple Contributors
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I have multiple contributors who provide content on our page. I have created an authors page that shows the picture and bio of each author along with their Google+ profile link. Each profile link goes to the authors respective profile where I have had them verify themselves as contributors.
My question is will Google see each of these authors and attribute the rel=author tag correctly (even though they are listed on the same profile page) or will Google only take the first person I point to for Rel=Author?
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Oh man that is too bad, I was really hoping for a authors page versus individual pages.
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This won't work.
The best way to handle this would be to 1) Have an author page for each author that links to their g+ profile using the rel=author tag, then make sure each post links to the individual author page using the rel=me tag 2) have a link from each post to the authors g+ profile using the rel=author tag.
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