Google recommends adding a link to the author’s page in the structured data of the article
Google has updated its schema-based structured data recommendations to include a link to an author’s bio page to help dispel the ambiguity of the right author for a post.
Removing ambiguity in the content of the page can increase Google’s confidence in the relevance of its topic and result in better visibility on Google search.
The use of Schema.org structured data is one of the methods used by webmasters to dispel content ambiguity for Google search. Google now recommends that publishers include a link to the author’s page in the Article
structured data to help them dispel doubts about the author of an article.
August 2021: Addition of a new recommended
author.url
property to the structured data documentation of the article. theurl
Ownership helps Google dispel the ambiguity of the correct article author.Major updates to Google Search Central documentation
the author
property has always been recommended for use with the Article
type, which means webmasters will only have to add the Person
type with the url
goods. Here is an example of how Coywolf News includes the url
property for article authors.
If there are multiple authors for an article, webmasters will need to use a JSON array to list all the authors and links to their bio pages.
Additionally, if an author has a website or Wikipedia entry, editors may consider using the sameAs
property to further dispel the author’s ambiguity for Google.
Jon henshaw
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