How to Override Author Url in Person Schema

This tutorial was contributed by Athira

In August 2021, Google updated its Schema-based structured data recommendations to include linking to an author’s bio page to help it disambiguate the correct author for an article. Most common requirements for SEO optimization are handled by @quintype/seo. By default the author URL will be <Domain>/author/<authorSlug> Example: https://malibu-advanced-web.quintype.io/author/shraddha-k

How to override author URL in Person Schema

Let’s see how we can override author URL according to different publishers, for that we need to pass authorSchema function to structuredData which accept story as a paran and returns an array of authors with name and URL.

"authorSchema" : (story)=> story.authors.map((author)=> {
    return {
      name: author.name,
      url: `${config['sketches-host']}/author/${author.id}`
    }

1 . Go to app/server/app.js and pass authorSchema function to structuredData

Example:

import { SEO, generateStructuredData, ImageTags, StaticTags, StructuredDataTags, AuthorTags, TextTags } from "@quintype/seo";
...
...
function generateSeo(config) {

  return new SEO({
    ...
    structuredData: Object.assign(generateStructuredData(config), {
      ...
      ...
      "authorSchema" : (story)=> getAuthorWithUrl(story, config)

    }),
    ...
    ....
  });
}
...
...
const getAuthorWithUrl = (story, config) => {
  return story.authors.map((author)=>{
    return {
      name: author.name,
      url: `${config['sketches-host']}/author/${author.id}`
    }
  })
}