Most of us are familiar with the HTML anchor tag as a way to link out to content as seen in this image:
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Standard anchor tag linking to Google+ account.
In that traditional format, the �href� part of the markup is called an attribute of the anchor tag that references the location of the content being linked to.
Now, if we add the attribute rel=�author� to the anchor tag, the link looks like this:
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Anchor tag including rel="author" linking to Google+ account.
In this example, the extra attribute rel=�author� associates authorship with the content of the page on which the link appears. In other words, it�s the first step in telling search engines like Google that you are the author of the content you createMost of us are familiar with the HTML anchor tag as a way to link out to content as seen in this image:
don on google plus
Standard anchor tag linking to Google+ account.
In that traditional format, the �href� part of the markup is called an attribute of the anchor tag that references the location of the content being linked to.
Now, if we add the attribute rel=�author� to the anchor tag, the link looks like this:
don with rel author
Anchor tag including rel="author" linking to Google+ account.
In this example, the extra attribute rel=�author� associates authorship with the content of the page on which the link appears. In other words, it�s the first step in telling search engines like Google that you are the author of the content you create
