Google Begins Tracking & Will Rank Individual Content Creators

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Google Begins Tracking & Will Rank Individual Content Creators

Google announced today that it has begun indexing attribution of content to particular authors, not just to the websites they appear on. Links associated with the author of a page can now have the code rel="author" added to them and Google will understand that to mean that the linked name is the linking page's author. That's a potentially significant change to the balance of power between sites and the individuals that create for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Could be interesting, especially if you make multiple websites. But what is not to stop me from doing rel="Matt Cutts"
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Just a way to look up authors from what I read of it. Won't have much impact at this stage on ranking unless you are targeting a name
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    Can you say author ID theft?

    Welcome to HTML5.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeb
    I should use rel="William Shakespear" and i'll instantly be a legend!
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Zeb View Post

      I should use rel="William Shakespear" and i'll instantly be a legend!
      Or hijack a popular blog, so your page shows up in the SERPs when someone does a search for someone with a high traffic blog.

      I bet that wouldn't ever happen [wink].
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