Title: rel=author is missing
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# rel=author is missing

 *  [tedjonesweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedjonesweb/)
 * (@tedjonesweb)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-missing-1/)
 * Only rel=”publisher” is working.
 * The Google+ field in the user’s profile is filled.
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 *  Thread Starter [tedjonesweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedjonesweb/)
 * (@tedjonesweb)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-missing-1/#post-5372900)
 * `<link rel="author"`
 * is missing
 * only
 * `<link rel="publisher"`
 * is present.
 *  [Zee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laserjobs/)
 * (@laserjobs)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-missing-1/#post-5372910)
 * 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](https://yoast.com/ten-blue-links/) for
   more info.”
 *  Thread Starter [tedjonesweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedjonesweb/)
 * (@tedjonesweb)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-missing-1/#post-5373012)
 * 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: [http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254](http://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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 * Last reply from: [tedjonesweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedjonesweb/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-missing-1/#post-5373012)
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