Author Tag - How do you get your Author Thumbnail on more then one site?

[JohnPeters]

Ive managed to set up the Rel:Author tag on my wordpress site, and the thumbnail is now showing in Google search results

Each article I write on my blog has a link to me Author page, which has on it a link to my Google Plus page.

So this works great.

However I write articles for another few websites and would like to get my author thumbnail image showing for them articles too.

How do I do this? Do I need an Author page on the other sites also?

I dont think I'll be able to get an author page on the other sites, is it not possible to somehow link direct from the article to my G+ page?

How would guest articles work too?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance guys

[eyepaq]

Hi,

How do I do this? Do I need an Author page on the other sites also?

** You can - but it's not mandatory.

I dont think I'll be able to get an author page on the other sites, is it not possible to somehow link direct from the article to my G+ page?

** Yes. You can and should link the author tag directly from the post to your Google plus profile.

How would guest articles work too?

** The same as above. Link directly to your G+ profile.

One important (crucial) thing to do si to also set in your g+ profile that you are contributor to x,y,z sites (list those there - including the ones you guest writing for) .

Hope it helps.

[JohnPeters]

wow I never knew that just linking my article to my Google+ page would make the thumbnail appear in Google.

I am presuming having the rel:author tag is required on the article page too, and not just a link to my G+ page?

[SebastianCowie]

Hi John,

Eyepaq has already covered your question, but I figured i'd drop these links in as it covers rel=author in detail.

http://yoast.com/push-rel-author-head/

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2539557

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Some sites won't allow rel=author within their links, but Google is becoming better at attributing authors regardless of the rel=author tag.

Example: https://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=Avoid+duplicate+content+penalties+and+improve+SEO

This post links to my G+ account but has no author tag.

[eyepaq]

Yes - that is correct.

rel author is mandatory right now.

However in the future things might change but for now it should contain the rel author tag.

(right now there are a few implementation without rel author and it's working fine but it dosen't hurt to place it for now)

[JohnPeters]

Thanks guys, appreciate your help.

I am wondering now if there is an easy way to give guest authors the rel:author attribute and links etc in say the bottom of their articles.

Is there a wordpress plugin that does this?

So for example, as the admin to the site, I upload the guest authors article, but then I somehow attribute it to them with all the rel:author tags and links options.

Any ideas?

[ZakD]

Hi John,

I've been playing around with this same issue this week. This is what I've gathered so far.

For this scenario you mentioned above - you can link it by including a BIO section somewhere on the post, preferably at the end. If the theme doesn't have a BIO function - there are plugins that will enable this.

Then after saying something about the author - at the end you can include something similar to:

You can also connect with the Author at Google+

That's my profile. And then very importantly - on the Google+ profile - under the section - "Contributor to these sites" - include the URL to the blog in question. This way Google can correlate back, to link the two.

Thanks!

[JohnPeters]

Thanks for this.

But the post will contain 2 rel:author tags.

It will contain the one for me, as I posted it using my user login details, then it will have the guest posts rel:author tag too

Wouldnt that cause problems?