Good Morning
I’ve been playing around with the plugin settings and I’ve found that if you use the plugin (standard way) to implement authorship, the rel=”author” tag appears on the following pages:
Pages (except Home Page)
Posts
Media Attachment Pages
The tag does not appear on the following:
Category Pages
Tag Pages
Archives
If you use the Plugin Advanced Settings (place the following code in the Additional Post Headers section – <link rel=”author” href=”G+ProfileUrl”/>), remove your G+ Personal Profile from the WordPress Profile User settings and Disable Google+ Profile in the Plugin General Settings-Google+ settings the tag will appear on the following:
Posts
Media Attachments Pages
It will not appear for the following:
Pages
Category Pages
Tag Pages
Archives
Hope this helps.
Grace
Hi,
I am also trying to figure out how to disable the author tag. Currently, the author tag is appearing on most pages of our website (and in search results) – including our homepage.
Under Google settings, I have our G+ brand profile url set as the default but the author tag seems to be overriding this.
The only thing I can think of to do is disable the plugin all together and find another SEO plugin where this won’t happen….
Thanks for your help.
– Kelly
Hi Kelly,
We will have an update out hopefully this week where you will have finer control over where the rel=”author” and rel=”publisher” tags appear.
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your quick response. Is there a quick fix? I am open to a manual, per/page fix until the updates are rolled out.
The reason I ask is because I am appearing as the author on every page of our website which, will not be looked at in the best light. If there is no fix (even a hacky one), I’ll have to disable the plugin completely which, I’d rather not do.
Thanks for any help you may provide,
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
See the solution that Grace posted above, that should work for you as well.
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your suggestion.
We have multiple authors for blog posts so if I use the above suggestion, am I correct to assume that one author (the one whose G+ url is referenced in the additional post header field) will be attributed to the content for all of our posts/pages?
Also, in this thread and others, the option has been brought up to “Disable Google+ Profile.” Where might I find this option? Does it refer to removing the Google Plus Default Profile url under Google Settings?
Correct me if I’m wrong but it seems my options for correct author attribution are to 1) disable the plugin until the updates roll out or 2) disable G+ profile across the board (if that’s possible)
Thanks for your help,
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
Grace may be able to provide more information about her solution, I cannot.
The Disable default Google+ profile is found under All in One SEO, General Settings, Google Settings
Hi Steve,
Thank you again for your response.
Under Google Settings, I see two options: a field to input a Google Plus Default profile url and a a field to input a Google Analytics ID. Please see screenshot via the below link,
View post on imgur.com
I do not see a check box that disables the G+ profile. Do you mean that in order to remove the G+ profile, the Google Plus Default Profile field must be blank?
Thanks,
Kelly
Hi Steve,
Thank you. It looks like I was behind an update.
I have was able to disable the G+ profile and update but the author tag still appears in the source code. I’ll leave it be and check again in a few days.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to remove my author tag from the homepage of the site.
Thanks,
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
I volunteer in the Webmaster Forum primarily in structured data, authorship and publisher. The only solutions to have tag appear only on appropriate pages that I’ve been able to find have been for single-author sites. Steve mentioned that they hope to have the update this week, I would hold tight, this is great news!
Grace
Thanks Grace! I will hold tight for now.
Hi Kelly,
Are you seeing an empty rel=”author” tag and rel=”publisher” tag?
<link rel=”author” href=”http://” />
<link rel=”publisher” href=”http://” />”
I was able to remove this by resetting the General Settings to Defaults and then personalizing the settings again, not sure why it worked, but it did.
Grace
Hi Grace,
No, I’m still seeing the populated rel=”author” tag and rel=”publisher tag.
I will take your suggestion and re-set to default and try again. If nothing else, I can manually remove the tags.
Thanks so much!
Kelly
