rel=author is missing

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  • Thread Starter tedjonesweb

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    <link rel="author"

    is missing

    only

    <link rel="publisher"

    is present.

    Zee

    (@laserjobs)

    Google discontinued author tagging so Yoast removed the code as it is not needed anymore.

    From Update 1.6:
    “Removed all code to do with rel=author as Google has stopped that “experiment”, see this blog post for more info.”

    Thread Starter tedjonesweb

    (@tedjonesweb)

    Google Authorship May Be Dead, But Author Rank Is Not

    Google Authorship and Author Rank aren’t the same thing. Here’s why Google Authorship can die yet Author Rank lives on.

    Source: https://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254

    The answer is that Google has other ways to determine who it believes to be the author of a story, if it wants. In particular, Google is likely to look for visible bylines that often appear on news stories. These existed before Google Authorship, and they aren’t going away.

    Maybe Google will use the old Authorship code (if available) for determining the author.

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