# Applying Schema.org on the user profile page for improved author authority on Google

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**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/applying-schema-org-on-the-user-profile-page-for-improved-author-authority-on-google/196054 "2021-07-05T12:01:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonahAragon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/applying-schema-org-on-the-user-profile-page-for-improved-author-authority-on-google/196054/10 "2023-12-19T09:02:04Z")

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As of [last month](https://www.schemaapp.com/schema-app-news/profile-page-discussion-forum-rich-results-now-available-on-google-search/) Google added support for [DiscussionForumPosting schema](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/discussion-forum) (which Discourse already does well) **and** ProfilePage schema:

> **[Profile Page (ProfilePage) Schema Markup | Google Search Central  | ...](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/profile-page?hl=en)**
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> You can use profile page structured data to help provide information about the people and organizations on your website.

They [currently recommend](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/discussion-forum#dfp) linking discussion posts to an `author.url` page which is:

> 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](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/profile-page).

As far as I can tell, having indexed `ProfilePage`s linked to discussion posts is the only way for forums to rank in Google’s new [Perspectives](https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-perspectives/) search. All of this is incompatible with noindex’d profile pages.

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Given this latest news, would you reconsider indexing profile pages and adding the schema from the OP?

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