Have you started implementing Rel=author ?

[sweetheater]

Have anyone of you here started implementing "rel=author" in their website and if so have you seen any improvements ? I am thinking of using it and just wanted to know if there is anything I should take care of before implementing..For people who donot know what I am talking about check this video by Matt Cutts below

Authorship markup - YouTube

[riza]

this is going to be important i think.

[umrbd]

Well it is quite important to implement as it helps a lot in building a brand but the use of rel = author is very complex in wordpress. I have tried several times but didn't get successful for a single time

[junne]

This tag will is for making Google understand domain authority and ultimately increase in trust factor for your website.

[Bharathipriya]

I have made authorship markup in my blogger blog. I am waiting for google's review for updation. But i was really confused with the microformats and warning which is shown for me as "Missing required field "updated". It will be good if they provide some detailed explanation of all these things

[Targeted Traffic]

I see it as a potential problem...If Google starts using rel=author as a ranking signal, competitive black hats might start writing spam articles and dummy author profiles, and slapping them with bogus rel=me and rel=author tags to make you look bad. So for now, Google is only counting rel=author on the same domain, where it's likely to be legitimate (your content pointing to your profile).

But...with Google..who knows

We should just keep our eyes and ears open for news on this, as it may become important down the road.

[xxxJamesxxx]

I tried it but couldn't get it to work... Would like to though.

...Wasn't their a plugin that made this easy to implement?

James Scholes

[stormyweather]

We've written a WordPress plugin for this. If you decide to try it and have any problems, please let us know. AuthorSure

[RatRaceWatch]

Yeh it's driving me crazy, I've spent hours watching/reading tutorials, many which are very different.

Right now I'm getting:

hfeed
hentry
Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field "entry-title".
Warning: Missing required field "updated".
Warning: Missing required hCard "author".

A fellow warrior was helping me out and he said that my author page was no-index, no-follow and it had something to do with the all-in-one-seo plugin, but I can't figure out how to change it.

If anyone is an expert on this, and can guide me through it, I would appreciate it. I've pretty much read every tutorial on the first 2 pages on it, and none have really addressed my issues.

Thanks
Ryan