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
