Author schema and Wordpress Author Page

[Carla_Dawson]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone tried using the author schema on their Wordpress author page or on their G+ profile or on their Moz profile? Would it be a good idea to always use it where you publish? I publish on several blogs

Thanks

Carla

example: Use it here - http://www.posicionamientowebenbuscadores.com/blog/author/carla/

http://moz.com/community/users/392216

It seems like I would be over doing it.

[Sharla]

I use it wherever and whenever I can!  Sometimes I ghostwrite for clients, in which case they get the author credit, but currently I am listed as an author on probably 10 different blogs, all on Wordpress platform, though I'm not sure I've published under my own tag on all of them.  I do the research, the writing, and work with clients who get the author credit.

The more places you are listed as author, the better this is, in theory, for your Author Rank.  Google hasn't released the algorithm for Author Rank, but they do intend for you to use it consistently.  Unfortunately you can't even look up your Author Rank, at least not anywhere I've found.

[vmialik]

Author schema really shines and helps with clickthrough on the SERPS in Google results for posts and articles and sometimes pages.  (see attached) It is not so much useful beneficial, (even though it can be done, and you may still find value) for your author page. Also generally G+ profile is linked to your Author schema, You cannot add schema to your moz profile page. Or in that case use your moz profile to link to your site like you can with G+. Even though this could be really cool idea but not sure if Google will allow that

Hope this helps

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