Does Discourse adds metadata to users to identify them? For SEO purposes, authorship is important (see Is Authorship Still Important for SEO & AEO?). Is it possible to add the schema.org property ‘author’ to the profile of users (author - Schema.org Property)?

Here’s a snippet from this very topic (when using Googlebot as a user agent) :slight_smile: {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"QAPage","name":"Is there any support for SEO Authorship with Discourse","mainEntity": {"@type":"Question","name":"Is there any support for SEO Authorship with Discourse","text":"Does Discourse adds metadata to users to identify them? For SEO purposes, authorship is important (see Google Authorship: Is It Still Important for SEO? ).\n\nIs it possible to add the schema.org property ‘author’ to the profile of users ( author - Schema.org Property )?","upvoteCount":0,"answerCount":0,"datePublished":"2024-01-05T12:33:14.117Z", "author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gummba","url":"https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gummba"}}} Note the last line :slight_smile:

Is there any support for SEO Authorship with Discourse

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Gummba (Gummba) January 5, 2024, 1:31pm 3

Great, thanks for the quick reply!

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