How do I redirect the Author archive page in Wordpress?

[richdan]

If you do a search for my name on Google, the first result is the author archive page of my Wordpress blog.

I would like to redirect the author page to my  "about me" page but cannot add a 301 as the author page is created dynamically in Wordpress.

Anyone know how I can do this?

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Danny. Most people typically deal with these by having them NOINDEXed instead of redirecting them. In that case, you'll allow them to be spidered by Google (follow) but not indexed (noindex). This should be editable within Wordpress or in a plugin such as Yoast's. That way your users can still quickly read through the archives authored by yourself, but your 'about me' page will have a better chance of ranking instead.

You might also look into your backlinks to the author archive and see if you can contact anyone that has linked there instead of your 'about me' page asking them to change. In that process you'll probably come across some suggestions on how to improve your about me page as well so it is more likely to gain inbound links moving forward.  Cheers!

[jlane9]

I agree with Ryan. That's great advice.

One more thing I would add is to go ahead and pro-actively add some extra high authority page backlinks to the "about me" page. You want to ensure the Page Authority is higher than any other pages on the site that may out rank your author archive page. Just to make sure the pages you want ranking first are where they should be in terms of your websites pages authority.

Hope that helps a little further,

Joe