Rel=author
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Hi everyone, i'm trying to understand the rel=author thing for cotent, i need some clarification please.
Firstly do you only use it for content on your site or can you have it for a guest post you have done on another domain which is not your own - linking to your author profile on your domain?
Secondly implementing it, i understand it's 3 links:
1., Link on your content where the blog post is with a rel=author going to your domain authort page.
2., a link from your domain author page going to your google + profile. This is rel=me
3 a link on your google+ profile to your blog? if so how do i do this? i only have an option to edit about page and add recommended links? there is no 'contributor' section. I am UK profile also.
Any help really appreciated, thanks guys.
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Look Here -
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
This goes over the exact methods of getting rel=author to work -
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I am pretty confused now.
I have a holiday website e-commerce, i write content on travel blogs, do i need to do rel=author if so what is easist way and how please?
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It seems your are trying to connect a Brand Page as an Author - Which is not accepted yet
(I am assuming this, due to Brand Pages only have the link sections you have described)
Make sure your are using personal profile for author - then your brand page would use publisher
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Ah i'm stil confused hehe. Well when i edit my Google+ profile i have no 'contributor to' section, just a 'recommended links' on my about page. Any ideas?
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Hi Paul,
Will do this in reverse order to make life a bit easier - and I suspect there will be other posts suggesting other ways to do this too - google has made several changes about how to do this - none of which are very clear!
Point 3. To link your google+ profile (personal profile - not company page!) go to your profile page, hit edit, scroll down to "contributor to" and add your homepage url(s) there and save. If you write for several different sites, you can add those too. It's basically googles method of verifying the author against the publisher and vice versa.
Point 2. This as far as I am aware is only needed if you have an author page with multiple authors on it - but yes, that would be the implementation method.
Point 1. Not quite sure I understand what you mean there - so here is a few things about that.
You can add your author name in each post, and rel=author that back directly to your g+ profile
If you have multiple authors and want to link it to your author page on site - you could do that, but I am not sure that google will still pick each article up and accredit you as the author - my suggestion (unless anyone else can clarify the correct way) would be to do as above.
There is another point if you have a g+ company page - Go to https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/#connect to add a rel=publisher tag to the head of your homepage only and that will qualify your for direct connect.
Hope that helps!
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