rel="author" tags
HTML tags with a rel="author"
attribute can be used to identify the author of an article, blog post or other online document. Advantages of adding rel="author"
links include:
- the author's profile photo may appear in Google search engine results
- a search engine may increase the page rank based on credibility of the author
The rel="author"
attribute can be used in three different ways:
- as <link rel="author"/> in the meta data of the <head> section
- as a <a rel="author"> link to the author's page on the same domain
- as a <a rel="author"> link to the author's profile somewhere such as on Google+ or another social site, or
<link rel="author"/> meta tag
Example:
<head> <link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/112416945907493718478/about" title="Robert Scoble on Google+"/> </head>
<a rel="author"> link to author's page
Example:
<p>by <a rel="author" href="/author/arthur-conan-doyle.html">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></p>
<a rel="author"> link to author's profile
Example:
<p>by <a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/112416945907493718478/about" title="Robert Scoble on Google+" >Robert Scoble on Google+ <img src="http://www.google.com/images/icons/ui/gprofile_button-32.png" width="32" height="32"> </a></p>