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title: "author · Link relation · zhead"
canonical_url: "https://zhead.dev/link/author"
last_updated: "2026-08-19T02:35:55.724Z"
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  description: "Links to information about the author of the current page."
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Link

# author

Links to information about the author of the current page.

## Code examples

Good example

```
<link rel="author" href="/authors/ada/">
```

Links the page to a local author profile.

Avoid this example

```
<link rel="author">
```

Has no href, so it does not create an author link.

## Recommendations

- 01 Link to useful author information Choose a stable profile or biography page that identifies the person or organization responsible for the page.
- 02 Do not promise an SEO boost The relation describes authorship. The HTML standard does not assign ranking benefits to it.

## Related documentation

- [HTML Living Standard: Links](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-author)