This metatag can be useful for letting google know that you are the author of a post which helps add your image next to the result in a SERP and can also (potentially) affect rankings.
#1278146: [META] Ensure all meta tags are supported (no patches, just planning) doesn't mention author, but I feel like it should be included in the core package.
Luckily, y'all are brilliant so it is easy to add this.
Some background:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986
http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #22 | metatag-n1865228-21.patch | 4.16 KB | damienmckenna |
| #21 | metatag-n1865228-21.interdiff.txt | 373 bytes | damienmckenna |
| #17 | metatag-n1865228-17.patch | 2.8 KB | damienmckenna |
| #13 | metatag-n1865228-13.patch | 2.19 KB | damienmckenna |
| #4 | metatag-n1865228-4.patch | 610 bytes | greggles |
Comments
Comment #1
gregglesComment #2
damienmckenna@greggles: Nice 'n simple, thanks. That said, it could use a better description.
Comment #3
damienmckenna@greggles: is this description ok?
Comment #4
gregglesSlight change for grammar and to avoid the use of the escaping \ in the string. I think the \ in a string is frustrating to translators so I switched to using " to enclose the string which is just as performant in modern versions of PHP.
Comment #5
damienmckennaLooks good. Committed! Thanks greggles.
Comment #6
damienmckennaI've just added a corresponding issue for Nodewords to add this new tag: #1866922: Add support for the rel=author meta tag
Comment #8
gillesbailleuxHi,
As this [very useful] patch works for the development release, I was just wondering if it will be ported to the next recommended release [7.x-1.0-beta5 or so].
Regards,
Gilles
Comment #9
damienmckenna@Gilles: The patch has already been committed, it's already in the dev version thus will be in the next release.
Comment #10
lsolesen commentedLooks great, but how should it be used when more people are authors on the site?
Comment #11
gillesbailleux@DamienMcKenna: many thanks for the 7.x-1.0-beta5 release including the rel=author link meta tag!
Comment #12
damienmckennaNeeds to be ported to D8.
Comment #13
damienmckennaThis adds the tag to 8.x-1.x.
Comment #15
damienmckennaCommitted.
Comment #16
damienmckennaThis was moved to the Google Plus submodule for D8, so need to backport that for D7.
Comment #17
damienmckennaLets see if this works.
Comment #19
damienmckennaSo the D8 version wasn't moved to the submodule after all. Now it is.
Comment #21
damienmckennaThis should fix those errors.
Comment #22
damienmckennaComment #24
damienmckennaCommitted.