Google Authorship Markup [#1245308]

Hi,

Will you in the future be adding support for Google Authorship Markup (basically, a link to the google profile ending with ?rel=author, and anchor that ends with a plus) and/or a rel=author link to the user profile, so we can use the rel=me tag to claim authorship?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986

Ann

Comments

Comment #1

federico commented 16 September 2011 at 14:55

+1 for this

Comment #2

Scyther commented 17 September 2011 at 19:26

Author Pane is a block for core and modules to show information about a user in. So I do not see what this have to with Author Pane?

As I see it, you have to have a module that has a field for every user to put this information in and that module have to show this information in the Author Pane block. Or am I wrong?

Comment #3

vint commented 1 October 2011 at 19:29

Hi Scyther,

This is what google suggests for claiming authorship on multi-person blog sites:

Link all 'blogs'/'articles' to the author page using the rel="author" tag
Link author pages to author pages on your site should each include a link to the author's Google Profile

From 'http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986' (how to link an author page using rel=author)

So all Author Pane should do is add a 'rel="author" tag to the link to the user profile. If the site owner then adds in that google profile link, is up to them.

Drupal on default links published by to the user profile with

published by <a href="/users/meral-crifasi" title="View user profile." class="username" xml:lang="" about="/users/USERNAME" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name">USERNAMEi</a>

If Rel="author" is added to the link on Author Pane, then people can easily use google authorship verification in combination with the standard drupal profiles, without having to modify how the published by username is displayed (as I did)?

Or would this need to be a sub-module, which adds both the 'rel=author' tag to the author pane, and allows for a 'google+ rel="me" profile link" on the drupal user profile page?

Comment #4

Scyther commented 1 October 2011 at 23:46

Ok, now I seem to understand how it works.

But how will this affect Advanced Forum with more then one Author Pane on the same side? You

Comment #5

vint commented 8 October 2011 at 12:14

No idea. Sorry, never considered this, as we're not using drupal for forums. Allow people to turn 'add rel="author"' support on/off? ;)
(either global or on a per content type basis)

Or maybe the sub-module is a way better solution indeed? Or somewhere else. I'm sorry.

I just wanted to say 'it is out there (author verification), and we should use it'. For me, it made most sense to do this through the author pane, as that's the most solid module out there that is specifically aimed at author credit/mentioning.

Best,
Ann