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Have you started implementing Rel=author ?

by sweetheater
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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
#implementing #rel=author #relauthor #started
  • Profile picture of the author riza
    this is going to be important i think.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author junne
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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      • Profile picture of the author 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 :confused:

        We should just keep our eyes and ears open for news on this, as it may become important down the road.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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?

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  • Profile picture of the author RatRaceWatch
    Yeh it's driving me crazy, I've spent hours watching/reading tutorials, many which are very different.

    Right now I'm getting:

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    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
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    • Profile picture of the author butternyk
      Originally Posted by RatRaceWatch View Post

      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
      tried my best for 1 full day , without success , cant move on from this can someone help
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  • Profile picture of the author jedsonack2
    I am also looking for the descriptive matter..
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  • Profile picture of the author shayman
    Jeeez....what a couple of dorks!!! haha..anyhow I did this months ago along with all the other structured data and it made no difference to my rankings at all. Took ages to do too.. Hopefully one day it might pay off.
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