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About Page / Author Bio
About-us page and author profiles as E-E-A-T signals — they make accountability and expertise visible and serve as central trust anchors for both quality raters and knowledge graph systems.
About Page / Author Bio — explained in more detail
The About page and author pages are not technically required — but they are trust anchors explicitly named in the Quality Rater Guidelines. A missing or generic About page is a frequently cited negative signal in rater evaluations.
A strong author bio includes: name, photo, role, professional background, topical focus, links to external profiles (LinkedIn, ORCID, Twitter/X), and ideally a list of articles by the author. These elements serve both humans (trust, credibility) and machines (entity recognition, sameAs links).
Example / In practice
A YMYL site (finance, health) with anonymous “editorial team” posts loses visibility after a core update. After introducing named authors with bio pages, visible qualifications, and Person schema, visibility partially recovers — the signal alone does not work without content quality, but it is a prerequisite.
Distinction from similar terms
Author Schema / sameAs is the machine-readable layer; the About page is the human-readable one. Imprint is a legal requirement (DACH region) but rarely contains expertise signals; the About page complements the imprint.
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