: Is adding authorship to content provided by an API damaging for SEO? I've launched a website that has tide data and maritime weather for a number of UK seaside locations. Each location on my

Posted in: #Api #GoogleAuthorship #GoogleIndex #Seo #StructuredData

I've launched a website that has tide data and maritime weather for a number of UK seaside locations.

Each location on my site has a 7 day forecast of tide and weather for that given location. This data is provided by an external source (UK hydrographic office) and displayed on the page (mainly as figures in tables). There isn't much else in the way of content on each location (here's an example of typical content of a location page: ketosea.com/location/conwy).

I've added the article structured data to the page, but would adding authorship (my Google+) damage my SEO, as I'm not the writer of the content per se? Obviously if it was a blog post or user generated content, I wouldn't even question adding authorship.

I've read through a number of articles regarding the importance of authorship, but I'm obviously keen to avoid any damage it would have to the indexing process. Google has only indexed 6 pages of over 1200 with no crawl errors or recommendations in Webmaster Tools, and am curious to know if authorship will improve this.

10.01% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

: Google analytics stopped showing trackbacks after tracking code change We have a pretty heavily linked-to website. GA showed some trackback in Acquisition > Social > Trackbacks every day until

@Cooney921

Posted in: #GoogleAnalytics #Referrer #SocialMedia #Tracking

1 Comments

: Using Cloudflare service on new hosting provider I've changed my hosting provider today and bought a new host from another provider but i have this problem. about my previous host: my previous

@Cooney921

Posted in: #Cloudflare #Dns #Domains #WebHosting

1 Comments

: Should I use IIS or my DNS provider to redirect my naked domain to its www version? How do I get the naked domain for my site that is typed into a browser (example.com) to automatically

@Cooney921

Posted in: #Dns #Domains #Iis #NoWww #Redirects

2 Comments

: Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net When I load my pages, I see the ads are not showing up and there is this message at the bottom of Chrome saying that the browser is waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

@Cooney921

Posted in: #GoogleAdsense #Networking

2 Comments

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best

@Sarah324

This isn't an article or similar content. this is just generic data (that isn't even unique). There is no author for this content which definitely means you aren't the author of that content. You are the publisher. You should not be using authorship on these pages.

10% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

Feed

: Is adding authorship to content provided by an API damaging for SEO? I've launched a website that has tide data and maritime weather for a number of UK seaside locations. Each location on my

More posts by @Cooney921

: Google analytics stopped showing trackbacks after tracking code change We have a pretty heavily linked-to website. GA showed some trackback in Acquisition > Social > Trackbacks every day until

: Using Cloudflare service on new hosting provider I've changed my hosting provider today and bought a new host from another provider but i have this problem. about my previous host: my previous

: Should I use IIS or my DNS provider to redirect my naked domain to its www version? How do I get the naked domain for my site that is typed into a browser (example.com) to automatically

: Waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net When I load my pages, I see the ads are not showing up and there is this message at the bottom of Chrome saying that the browser is waiting for googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Back to top | Use Dark Theme