How to add author data for Google

Adding author tags for Google to pick up is turning out to be a good idea. This is slowly boosting my click through rates on SERPs. Not to mention I now have a use for that Author tab under Google webmaster tools.

I altered this plugin a little: Social Networking in Posbit AND Profile (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, +more) - vBulletin.org Forum

Here's how to do it with this plugin: vBulletin.org Forum - View Single Post - Social Networking in Posbit AND Profile (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, +more)

Here's what things will eventually look like in Google results:
https://www.google.com/#&hl=en&q=dro...417b9efd26b52d

Oops. Can a mod move this to the SERP forum?

Not a problem, John

Thank you for your contribution!

Thanks! no problem!

I updated the code that is linked to above to include conditionals. This makes it so the author tag is only present on the first post of a thread, so you don't have multiple authors.

Hello,

I'm attaching additional screenshot for those of us that would like to see how it looks like.



Enjoy

Thanks again, John.

Thanks for the screen shot!

There is one problem with this that I'm working on - perhaps someone here can help...

With the method above author tags are being applied to all CMS pages, and not just articles (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms'). Unfortunately a conditional isn't available for this (which is pretty stupid of vbulletin to not include). So we need a small plugin to make a condition. Something like this in cache_templates:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms' && in_array('vbcms_content_article_page', $cache))
{
    define('ON_ARTICLE_PAGE_ONLY', true);
} 


with template conditional:

HTML Code:

<vb:if condition="defined('ON_ARTICLE_PAGE_ONLY')">
    blah blah blah
</vb:if>

but that doesn't work. Anyone care to correct it?

I had this coded way back on vB 4.0.2 for my wife's site. I'll have to dig in my backup Dvd's to track this. Let me see if i can find it.

Thanks Mert - let me know if you figure it out.

no luck Mert?

Honestly week day ( very busy ) it is really hard to go inside them , i'll try to check it this weekend.

Originally Posted by tavenger5

Thanks for the screen shot!

There is one problem with this that I'm working on - perhaps someone here can help...

With the method above author tags are being applied to all CMS pages, and not just articles (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms'). Unfortunately a conditional isn't available for this (which is pretty stupid of vbulletin to not include). So we need a small plugin to make a condition. Something like this in cache_templates:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms' && in_array('vbcms_content_article_page', $cache))
{
    define('ON_ARTICLE_PAGE_ONLY', true);
} 


with template conditional:

HTML Code:

<vb:if condition="defined('ON_ARTICLE_PAGE_ONLY')">
    blah blah blah
</vb:if>

but that doesn't work. Anyone care to correct it?

I'll gladly throw someone $20 via paypal to get this working

huh?

Originally Posted by tavenger5

huh?

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btw, I thought I had a solution for this, but unfortunately when vbulletin displays the article preview (where memberaction_dropdown is inserted) it is treated as the article page instead of the section page. Therefore, you can't remove the author tags from a section page without some additional coding changes.

This is really really backwards. I never took a look at how that part of the system worked before until now. The right thing to do would be to have a completely separate preview template instead of calling each node for each article along with its set of templates x amount of times. Stupid.

How do you get this to work with vBSEO? It strips out the rel="me" attribute, even when I whitelist Google in the CP.

How do you get around this?