--- title: "Article author missing or malformed (geo/article-author-missing)" description: "geo/article-author-missing: Google's article guidance wants author as a Person/Organization with a name and a profile url or sameAs; string authors or…" canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/geo/article-author-missing lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # Article author missing or malformed `geo/article-author-missing` · severity **warn** · category AI search · detected by `void geo` and `void audit` ## 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 - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article#author-bp - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/profile-page ## More ai search rules `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. - `jsonld-id-unresolved` JSON-LD @id references don't resolve — [geo/jsonld-id-unresolved](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/geo/jsonld-id-unresolved) - `jsonld-not-visible` Structured data values don't appear on the page — [geo/jsonld-not-visible](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/geo/jsonld-not-visible) - `entity-name-mismatch` Brand name differs across og:site_name, JSON-LD and title — [geo/entity-name-mismatch](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/geo/entity-name-mismatch) - `article-date-missing` Article has no machine-readable or visible date — [geo/article-date-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/geo/article-date-missing) - `landmarks` Missing
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