Author Pages

Although author pages are not official ranking factors on search engines, but there is a lot of evidence around search quality raters using them as an indirect ranking factor when deciding on page quality.

Google specifically has created frameworks like E-E-A-T and YMYL for quality raters to help them rate quality of pages being shown in search engine results. Author pages that can demonstrate expertise and experience relevant to the topic the author is writing about, can help with E-E-A-T and YMYL.

Here's what Google's John Mueller has to say about author pages.

If you’re providing information that you want people to trust, then this certainly makes sense.
- John Mueller

Therefore, it is important to signal to search engines that the authors of a page on a website can be trusted to write about the page, making the page a good candidate to be "rewarded," aka ranked higher.

So, why did we decide to build the Authors Page feature on Konigle? Well, aside from letting Search Engines know that the author of a particular blog or article is a subject matter expert. With a compelling author bio, better user experience is also provided for visitors when they are able to place a face to the people behind a blog post based on the author's profile picture.

On top of that, grouping content by author provides both internal linking opportunities and another page on your website that can be discoverable by visitors and search engine crawlers alike.

Konigle provides a CMS to create a rich author profile page easily. This page automatically brings together all content published by the same author on a website.

To create or manage your author profiles, just start a chat with Tim to get it done quickly.

When a blog or article is tagged to its author, contributor, and/or reviewer, an author panel is automatically added to the page, as well as to its schema markup.