Author Tag on Blogger - What am I Doing Wrong?!
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Hi All,
I've just taken over handling our company's blog at http://www.cookwareblog.com.au/. We have several writers for this blog so I want to set up separate author tags for each of them.
As you can see from the latest post - http://www.cookwareblog.com.au/2012/06/weird-and-wacky-ice-cream-recipes.html - I am the author/publisher.
However, I can't seem to link my blogger author profile - http://www.blogger.com/profile/05603194922729243157 - to my Google Plus profile because when you go to my Blogger Profile it automatically redirects to my G+ profile. Also, there is no link directly from my blogger post, it just says "Posted by Brad Russell" (unlike previous posts by the master login for our company, which link to a central author profile page).
What am I doing wrong? Today I successfully set up author tags on my Wordpress blog, I just can't seem to get it right on Blogger.
Thanks!
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Hi Jane,
It appears that the correct authors are now appearing in the SERPs.
All I did was make sure that each blogger was listed as a contributor and for each post I simply added "Written by Author Name - Author Name Google+". I linked the "Author Name Google +" to the respective G+ account and from the G+ account back to the blog under the 'Contributor To' field.
Anyway, all seems to be working now - just thought I'd reply in case anyone needs help in the future!
Many thanks,
Brad -
Hi Brad,
I don't think you're actually doing anything "wrong" here, but Blogger is not as flexible or advanced as Wordpress, and has shortcomings for both usability and SEO purposes. Are you trying to create re="author" tags so that they will display correctly in search results?
You can encase the Google Plus link in a rel="author" tag, and that should work, but I am concerned that there is not a way to set this up such that the "posted by Brad Russell" tag automatically links through.
Has the company thought about moving over to Wordpress for this blog? It generally makes life a lot easier!
Cheers,
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