Setting Up Author Tags on Wordpress Blog

[bradkrussell]

Hi,

I am trying to set up author tags on my Wordpress blog (http://www.bradkrussell.com.au) so that my author profile shows in Google SERPs.

I'm following Yoast's article - http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/ - and I did everything up to the "How to allow authors to add rel="me" to links in their bio's" section. Basically, in Wordpress under Appearance -> Menus for the About Me page I set 'link relationship' = author. Then on my Google + page (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110649694696756559049/posts) under the 'Contributor To' section on the About tab I linked back to the About Me page on my blog.

Upon checking on Google Australia it appears that this was done correctly - https://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Abradkrussell.com.au.

My questions are:

1. Do I need to link back to my About Me page from every post I do? E.g. 'Written by Brad Russell' - linking to About Me. It appears I don't but does it help? Some of the results on Google Australia show 'By Brad Russell' but some don't. I'm just not sure if this is because the site hasn't been reindexed properly yet.
2. What happens if in the future I have multiple authors on my blog? I give them a new username in Wordpress but how do I specify that they are the author of the post? Do I need to create an 'Authors' section on my site? If I then specify an Authors page as link relationship = author, how do I link each post to the necessary author page?
3. I still don't really understand the rel=me tag and how I implement it on Wordpress. I'm not sure how to edit the functions.php and author.php files on Wordpress (ie the second half of Yoast's article).

Many thanks!

[JamesNorquay]

Easy way to do it is as follows:

1. Add link to Google+ Profile from blog with the following anchor text i.e: Brad Google+

2. Go to Google+ in the about me section "Contributor to" add the URL for your blog.

Takes a week or so to show the rel author in SERPs.

Regards.

[bradkrussell]

Thanks James - but what about if I have multiple authors on my blog (not likely for this blog but for other blogs I am setting up)?

[JamesNorquay]

You can employ a similar strategy to what SEOmoz does, where they link the profile of the author on the blog to their Google+ profile, my rel author profile shows for some posts I have done on SEOmoz.

My guess is you can also link the specific post content to that Google+ author profile with a similar anchor text, if that user has the blog in "Contributes to" my guess is it will show up.

I have not tested this one personally but I have seen it in action on a few other sites.

[bradkrussell]

OK I understand. Similar to what I have done on http://www.cookwareblog.com.au/? the latest post is linking to my G+ profile, the 2nd newest post is from another author within our company.

I'll guess I will wait a while and see if they appear correctly in the SERPs.

Thanks for your help!