Authorship & trust signals7 rules onwho wrote your pages, when, and who is behind the site.
Bylines, author pages, dates and the pages that tell visitors who you are.
Authors
- An article author has no author page the audit could find on the siteThe author named in an article's structured data has no profile page among the addresses the audit checked on your site.In the report: An article author has no author page that this audit could find on the site
- Article has no confirmed authorA primary article has neither a named author in its markup nor a confirmed local static byline.In the report: Article has no confirmed author
- Person identifiers are missing or conflictA Person record lacks both url and sameAs, or records for a shared normalized person name and profile token use conflicting global @id values.In the report: Authors have Person markup without URL or sameAs identifiers
Dates
- Article markup and visible dates disagreeA primary article declares a same-role date that is definitely more than 48 hours apart from its local visible date.In the report: Article markup and visible dates disagree
- Page markup declares a future publication dateA publication or modification date in page markup is definitely more than 24 hours after the page was fetched.In the report: Page markup declares a publish or modified date more than 24 hours after capture
- Article has no confirmed visible dateA primary article has no confirmed publication or update date text in its local static header.In the report: Article has no confirmed visible date