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  • SEOSponge
    SEOSponge last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 2:07 PM

    Hello,

    I took a look through past questions but can't seem to find a definitive answer on setting up Google + Authorship credit (for multiple authors) using a Wordpress blog.

    Has anyone had experience setting this up?

    Or could you recommend solid reading/research?

    I took a look at a couple of Wordpress plug in's but just found them very confusing (so did our IT contact who will ultimately be setting up code for this.)

    Any direction or advice is appreciated.

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    • montymoore
      montymoore last edited by Sep 11, 2013, 11:14 AM Sep 11, 2013, 11:14 AM

      Can this override the automatic authorship system where every page on a domain has been approved as by an author??

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      • SEOSponge
        SEOSponge @littlesthobo last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 8:07 PM Feb 25, 2013, 8:07 PM

        This is helpful! I just tried to add myself as a contributor to the blog on my Google plus profile.  However, I keep receiving a 'Please enter a valid URL.' message.

        Our blog is www.cushingco.com/blog - I am guessing the /blog is the issue?

        Will it work if I am contributing to www.cushingco.com

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        • littlesthobo
          littlesthobo last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 7:51 PM Feb 25, 2013, 7:51 PM

          I've attached a screenshot of what you should be looking for.  You need to go to your dashboard -> users -> all users -> then select any user.

          There should be several fields including your bio area...as per the attached.  Mine is filled in with my google plus proifle.

          Something I forgot to mention is that your user will also need to add themselves as a contributor to the blog on their Google plus profile.  I have attached a link to my google plus profile.  If you check out the about section you will see about two thirds down a section where is says 'contributor to'.  Here you add the url to the blog.  This links the two.

          https://plus.google.com/u/0/101142923283224674423/about

          1. You need to link the blog to the G+ Profile

          2. You need to confirm in G+ that you are truly a contributor to that blog (or you could add any old superior influencer)

          That should be it.

          g+jpeg.jpg

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          • SEOSponge
            SEOSponge @littlesthobo last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 7:28 PM Feb 25, 2013, 7:28 PM

            Thanks to you both for the replies! So far, we have our Users set up.

            Under  'Biographical Info' we have a short bio on the author with a link to the Google + profile.

            (I don't see a Google + Profile URL. section.)

            Takeshi, are you saying each post our author adds to the blog need to have a link back to the 'Biographical Info' page?

            'Biographical Info'

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            • littlesthobo
              littlesthobo last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 6:06 PM Feb 25, 2013, 6:06 PM

              You don't need a plugin to set up authorship for multiple authors.

              All you need is that all your authors have a Google + account.

              If you go into Users in wordpress and set up your users/authors. ( I presume you already have these users set up as authors if they are already writing content?).    When they are set up as an author, you go into the user profile and add their Google+ profile link into the section on their profile where is says Google + Profile URL.  You do this for each author on the site.

              Then, when any author writes a post, they just need to ensure they are writing as their user profile name (i.e. they are logged in as themselves) and that should cover it.

              The admin can change the author of a post by doing a quick edit on the list of posts - when it drops down there should be an 'author' section where you can select a list of authors.  This list is your users and each of these need to have their Google+ profile url added to their user profile in wordpress.

              Hope that makes sense!

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              • TakeshiYoung
                TakeshiYoung last edited by Feb 25, 2013, 2:50 PM Feb 25, 2013, 2:50 PM

                It's pretty simple. Wordpress already has the concept of authors, with each author having their own bio page (www.domain.com/author/name).

                So to add authorship, in your posts, make sure that the author's name in their byline is a link linking to their bio page, using the rel="author" markup. Many themes already do this automatically, but if not edit your posts.php and add it in.

                Then, on the bio page just add a link to the author's Google+ profile using rel="me". That's it.

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