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author

The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.

Definition from the Schema.org vocabulary (English).

Estimated domains

10M+ stable

Ranking position#4 of 5,545
Google eligibleYes
Used on types2

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Usage in Google Search

Documented Google contexts where this property is required or recommended for rich results.

  • Requiredbook

    Person or Organization The author(s) of the book. Note: If the book doesn't have an author, but rather, one or more contributors, include these other contributors as defined in schema.org/Book. For example, a book might have no known or recorded author, but might instead have a number of editors. Conversely, if a book's author is an organization, define the author accordinly as defined in schema.org/Organization. For example, the author for a book titled "Fundamentals of fire fighting skills" mi

  • Requireddiscussion-forum

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the comment. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that make sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • Requireddiscussion-forum

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the post. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that make sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • Gon typeDiscussionForumPosting10K - 100KGas author.name
    Requireddiscussion-forum

    Text The name of the author of the post.

  • Requiredreview-snippet

    Person or Organization The author of the review. The reviewer's name must be a valid name. For example, "50% off until Saturday" is not a valid name for a reviewer. This field must be shorter than 100 characters. If it's longer than 100 characters, your page won't be eligible for an author-based review snippet. To help Google best understand authors across various features, consider following the author markup best practices.

  • Recommendedqapage

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the answer. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that makes sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • Gon typeAnswer1M - 10MGas author.url
    Recommendedqapage

    URL A link to a web page that uniquely identifies the author of the answer, most likely a profile page of the Q&A website. We recommend marking up that page using profile page structured data.

  • Gon typeArticle10M+G
    Recommendedarticle

    Person or Organization The author of the article. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices.

  • Gon typeArticle10M+Gas author.name
    Recommendedarticle

    Text The name of the author.

  • Gon typeArticle10M+Gas author.url
    Recommendedarticle

    URL A link to a web page that uniquely identifies the author of the article. For example, the author's social media page, an "about me" page, or a bio page. If the URL is an internal profile page, we recommend marking up that author using profile page structured data. You can use the sameAs property as an alternative. Google can understand both sameAs and url when disambiguating authors.

  • Recommendedfactcheck

    Organization or Person The author of the claim, not the author of the fact check. Don't include the author property if the claim doesn't have an author. If you add author, define the following properties: nameText, required The publisher of the claim. The publisher can be a person or organization. sameAs URL, recommended Indicates the party that is making the claim, regardless of whether the party is a Person or Organization. When multiple publishers report on the same claim, the appearance prop

  • Recommendedfactcheck

    Organization or Person The publisher of the fact check article, not the publisher of the claim. The author must be an organization or a person. The author have at least one of the following properties: name Text Name of the organization that is publishing the fact check. url URL The URL of the publisher of the fact check. This can be a home page, contact page, or other appropriate page. To help Google best understand authors across various features, consider following the author markup best prac

  • Recommendedqapage

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the comment. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that make sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • Gon typeComment100K - 1MGas author.url
    Recommendeddiscussion-forum

    URL A link to a web page that uniquely identifies the author of the comment, most likely a profile page of the forum. We recommend marking up that page using profile page structured data.

  • Recommendeddiscussion-forum

    URL A link to a web page that uniquely identifies the author of the post, most likely a profile page of the forum. We recommend marking up that page using profile page structured data.

  • Recommendedqapage

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the question. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that make sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • Gon typeQuestion1M - 10MGas author.url
    Recommendedqapage

    URL A link to a web page that uniquely identifies the author of the question, most likely a profile page of the Q&A website. We recommend marking up that page using profile page structured data.

  • Recommendedrecipe

    Person or Organization The name of the person or organization that wrote the recipe. To help Google best understand authors across various features, consider following the author markup best practices.

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