Add Authorship support to the display formatter [#1208690]

Google is adding support for Authorship in search results based on link trails from a user's Google profile -> content page and vice versa. We already have a profile link, we just need to add a rel tag to it and ensure it's easy to display it in the context of the piece of content. More information can be found on this Google answer: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920

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#7	googleplus-add_authorship_display_formatter-1208690-7.patch	1.21 KB	nielsonm

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Comment #1

Dave Reid

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CreditAttribution: Dave Reid commented 4 July 2011 at 21:18

Side not, not sure exactly how this relates to Google+ more than +One/Profiles.

Comment #2

rszrama CreditAttribution: rszrama commented 4 July 2011 at 21:59

Hmm.. is there a separate module that was already integrating with Google Profiles? It seems to me Google's profiles are being standardized through Google+ (with their profile button at least defaulting to a Google+ URL), so our link to a profile there ought to include the author info.

Comment #3

Shadlington CreditAttribution: Shadlington commented 6 July 2011 at 14:38

Profiles have been absorbed into Google+ haven't they? Or are being absorbed. Or something.

Anyway, subbing as I'm really very interested in this feature. Looks nifty.

Comment #4

rszrama CreditAttribution: rszrama commented 6 July 2011 at 14:46

Yeah, it looks to me like Authorship requires either:

An "Author" page on the Drupal site, such as the user profile, with a Google+ profile link specifying rel="me".
Links from the content page to the author page with links specifying rel="author".
A link from the Google+ profile to the author page with the checkbox marked that says "This page is specifically about me."

Or:

A link from the content page to the Google+ profile that specifies rel="author".
A link from the Google+ profile back to the home page of the site you posted on.

This leads me to believe our link display formatters just need to have an option to specify if the link should have rel="me", rel="author", or nothing. Then we should see if we can hook into the display of the username display as the node author to add rel="author" (I'm guessing this is possible). After that we just need to document the process for linking everything together.

Comment #5

gamermaven CreditAttribution: gamermaven commented 18 November 2011 at 03:19

anyone find a solution for this?

Comment #6

shunshifu CreditAttribution: shunshifu commented 17 December 2011 at 00:31

subscribing

Comment #7

nielsonm CreditAttribution: nielsonm commented 21 September 2012 at 01:05

Status:

Active

» Needs review

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googleplus-add_authorship_display_formatter-1208690-7.patch	1.21 KB

I created a patch that goes with example 1 on the google support page "You write an article for a website, and also have an author page on the same website". Let me know if there are any issues.