It seems like this would be the appropriate module to implement this in.

Would be nice to implement the rel="author attribute as suggested by google by adding it to the author information link on nodes (blog posts, etc)

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

Just thought it might be appropriate.

thanks

Cool module

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corbacho’s picture

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

My thoughts about it:

This is more about Google searches, indexing, etc.

The only thing related to Google Plus Button is that when you use the "share", the called "+Snippet" information (title, description..) that will be displayed it's also using this data. See full API doc.

But still I think this is out of the reach of this module, this is more about microformats , and another modules.

Another thing is that this Google feature is still in beta state. For example, I implemented the rel=author thing and didn't work. Google seems it's showing it only to big names.. "britney spears" searches, etc.

You can try in this testing tool
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdru...

but it won't show in the Google searches.

I will mark as won't fix by now.

shunshifu’s picture

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Thought I'd ask. Thanks

AlexanderPop’s picture

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http://drupal.org/node/1444856

philsward’s picture

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I am going to +1 this and push that it get's re-opened and implemented, maybe as a "check box" to enable or disable it. From what I can tell, it only needs to go on the front page of the site per Google:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1708844

In order to "properly" link a Google+ page for a business (or g+ profile), the following code must be on the front page:

<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/[yourpageID]" />

Thoughts?

modctek’s picture

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#4 also works if you change "publisher" to "author" and link to your profile page.

Obviously, hard-coding your theme is less than desirable, but it'll work until a more portable solution is coded.

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I'm not going to say you're wrong +modctek, but according to the Google documents about properly linking your Google+ account to your website, it says nothing about "author" and specifically references "publisher". (check the link in my previous post)

Have you found any other documentation from Google that states you can use both?

I think what you might be referring to, is the general "meta" usage of "author" vs "publisher" which can be used synonymously and will be equally picked up by Google for inclusion in their search results. Keep in mind this is completely separate from linking your Google+ account to your website.