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Article author missing or malformed

geo/article-author-missingwarnvoid geoupdated

Why it matters

Google's article guidance wants author as a Person/Organization with a name and a profile url or sameAs; string authors or "Posted by …" names are ambiguous entities.

How to fix it

Add author: { '@type': 'Person', name, url } linking to an author page with ProfilePage markup, and show a visible byline.

References

void geo reports 41 rules in this category. Generative-engine optimisation: whether AI crawlers that don't run JavaScript see the same content, valid and visible JSON-LD, an explicit AI robots policy, llms.txt, Markdown mirrors and answer-first writing.