Comments on: How to Setup "rel=author" So That You Appear In Google’s Search Results

By: Susan Walsh

Susan Walsh — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:05:29 +0000

Ron, sorry I didn’t see your question until today when I was pointing someone to this post. There’s a great post on the Blumenthal blog 2/3/13 saying to do both Rel=Author and Rel=Publisher. Here’s the link http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/02/03/google-local-rel-publisher-or-relauthor-you-should-do-both/

THIS IS WHAT DANIEL BERMAN SAID IN THE COMMENTS:

You want to setup the rel=”publisher” to provide a context of identifying your business website to Google and especially giving you the chance to give them the categories that your business best fits, and then tying all of that back to your NAP information that Google has on file.

You want to setup your rel=”author” markup to recognize your contribution to the content as published by the business, but recognizing that your role as a human being is larger than just your position at that business. Maybe you also have a blog, and a hobby website. If you setup the rel=”authorship” formatting on all of those sites then your online identify or persona becomes clearer to Google as whole.

That said both are needed, just like getting a yellow page listing for your business and business cards for yourself are helpful so that people can find the business but also personally connect with you as a person.

I THINK THIS ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION – GO SETUP REL=PUBLISHER. I PLAN TO DO IT FOR OUR BUSINESS AND RECORD THE STEPS FOR ANOTHER POST.

By: Ronak Bagadia

Ronak Bagadia — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:46:42 +0000

Thank you for such a detailed explanation of the set up.Your post helped me to get it to work perfectly.Just one question,will it always display ‘BY Author Name’ and the date as i tested out on the rich snippets tool.I would like to hide ‘by Ronak Bagadia’ and the date since mine is a website and not a blog.Is there any way that can be done?

By: Lionel

Lionel — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:35:50 +0000

Firstly thanks for writing this awesome post. I have activated Google authorship couple of days ago on my blog. In Google rich snippet tool I could see my profile link but not in the search results. Can you please tell me how many days it take Google to modify the data on SERP.

By: Javier Marcilla

Javier Marcilla — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:08:36 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, especially the trick with the Yoast Plug-in. I have been using “manual” techniques to get this right, but I will try in this way to avoid having to edit files again.