: Maybe someone is still seeing this question, so it could be useful to point out that Google no more supports Google Authorship https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/60

@Annie201

Maybe someone is still seeing this question, so it could be useful to point out that Google no more supports Google Authorship
plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6083347?hl=en

And it encourages the use of structured data.

So, no more need to add rel=author for Google. It still exists as microformat and could be used by other applications.
You can still add where you are author through Google+ for social purposes.

But that doesn't mean Google no more recognizes author of a post. It analyzes structured data, bylines, citations, as always it did.

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