Meta author. Is it relevant for website design company in its seo?

[teconsite.com]

We don't usually add the meta author in the websites that we develop. I wonder if it would have  any positive effect in our seo.

We usually add a link in the footer like this "Diseño Web Vigo "(Website Development in Vigo). I am worry about this links. I'm not sure if they are positive because  they are in the footer and so the link appears in all of the pages. Besides all these websites we develop are hosted in two different servers, and google could easily think that it is manipulative thing.

What do you think?

Thanks!!!

[AlanBleiweiss]

Rel Author is not for developers.  It's for the author of the content.

[teconsite.com]

I have been checking schema.org. I'm glad Google, Bing and Yahoo are agree on something! But I am still having some doubts, cause we are developers, we create the design, we create the programming, but the content (generally) is provided by the client. So we are not the authors of that content.

Maybe I was confused because, I usually see my competitors (other web development agencies) write on meta autor its name.

So, right now, I am still having a doubt, how could I sign those websites, so that it could give me more seo relevance, and doing it well. Should I use rel author, should I keep the link in the footer or should avoid both.

Sorry, I am really confused now...

[AlanBleiweiss]

As Oznappies points out, schema.org is the future direction of SEO from a content level markup perspective. However as far as the meta author field goes, the current quick solution is the new "rel author" tag that Google has been recommending.

Any tags related to authorship within schema.org are going to be months away from being significant, and only relate to content.  The rel author tag can more easily be added to page headers within header templates.

[oznappies]

Have a look at this video from 'whiteboard Friday' about the schema.org markup that Bing, Yahoo & Google are now using to describe content such as Author. It will most likely be more useful in the long run as the big 3 adopt the standard and give ranking bonus to sites that use it.