: Is Google ok with multiple rel="author" links? I'm working on a site with multiple authors, and am trying to set up Google authorship via rel tags. Since it's a multi-author site, the links

@Megan663

This has already been answered on this site: How to implement rel=author on a page with multiple authors?



It would appear that you cannot have multiple authors, as Google won't accept it for that article, and then Google will view your entire site as not implementing the author markup correctly.

From seono.co.uk/2013/02/20/confusing-google-a-rel-author-case-study/

The moral of the story is to be very, very careful when implementing rel=”author”. Don’t [anger] the Google Gods by having more than one author attributed to a page (like I did), as it may negatively impact the authorship of your whole site, not just the relevant/affected pages.


From: searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218

...I don't know that Google has developed the authorship markup system to account for that situation. When I searched for references to that scenario, the primary Google docs simply don't mention multiple authors for one piece of content. Furthermore, people who have tested this scenario on their own note that the first rel=author identified (out of many) is the one the Rich Snippets Testing Tool notes as verified.

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