Just recently, Google supported the rel=”author” tag. This will enable blog owners/authors to claim the authorship of their own posts/articles, which rightfully belong to them.

As I was very busy with the everyday chores, that would include my day job and my freelance jobs, it took me some time to implement the markup in my own blog. After a few hours of playing around with the codes while reading guides on how to implement it, I finally made it.

Below are the 2 of the most useful articles I found that talks about the markup. The first one is from WordPress Guru Yoast, and the other one is from a good friend and good SEO Jason. After implementing the markup in the codes, it’s time to test if I did it right using the Google Rich Snippet tool.

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