Is there any support for SEO Authorship with Discourse

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The discussion revolves around whether Discourse supports SEO Authorship. Gummba inquired about adding metadata to user profiles to identify them for SEO purposes, specifically referencing the schema.org property ‘author’. Bas provided an HTML snippet from the same topic, showing that Discourse already includes author metadata in JSON-LD format, which includes the author’s name and URL. Gummba thanked Bas for the quick reply.

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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)?

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Here’s a snippet from this very topic (when using Googlebot as a user agent) :slight_smile:

<script type="application/ld+json">
{"@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 <a href=\"https://www.seoclarity.net/blog/google-authorship\" class=\"inline-onebox\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">Google Authorship: Is It Still Important for SEO?<\/a>).\n\nIs it possible to add the schema.org property ‘author’ to the profile of users (<a href=\"https://schema.org/author\" class=\"inline-onebox\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">author - Schema.org Property<\/a>)?","upvoteCount":0,"answerCount":0,"datePublished":"2024-01-05T12:33:14.117Z",
"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Gummba","url":"https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gummba"}}}
</script>

Note the last line :slight_smile:

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Great, thanks for the quick reply!