Google’s John Mueller was requested concerning the affect of adjusting the creator’s title on an article. John gave three items of recommendation in response to the query, (1) use creator annotations, (2) rewritten content material ought to use the brand new creator’s title and (3) don’t randomly change creator names.
This was posted on Mastodon the place the query was “If I alter my present article’s creator profile, is it might have an effect on my search engine marketing? I need to change the title of the creator and all of the issues.”
John didn’t say sure or no, however he replied “I might use the creator annotations to specify the first creator of the content material on a web page. If somebody rewrites the content material, use that title. Do not randomly change the names, that does not assist anybody.”
I imply, critically, use the creator’s title that wrote that piece of content material. Why attempt to trick Google? Why play video games? What am I lacking right here?
Why are you altering the title of the creator to another person if that particular person didn’t write that piece of content material? Solely change it, if that new particular person up to date the piece of content material in a big means.
Do not say you will not replace the creator when it is sensible to replace the creator out of worry of dropping Google search rankings.
Discussion board dialogue at Mastodon.
