Google's John Mueller answers what effect would no-indexing author archives have on E-A-T
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Google’s John Mueller answers a question about whether author archives makes a difference with their E-A-T scores. John first noted that there is no such thing as an E-A-T score then provided advice that indirectly provided insights into how Google views author archive pages.
Author Archive Pages
Author archive pages are pages that list the articles published by a individual writers for that website. The pages can be useful for listing the accomplishments and credentials of the authors.
It’s also useful for readers to find more articles by their favorite author.
Google’s Mueller Discussing Author Archive Pages And E-A-T
Is It Okay to No-Index Author Archives?
The person asking the question noted that they had a structured data markup error and they were thinking of blocking Google from indexing their author pages in order to stop that error from showing up in Google Search Console.
The way to block Google from indexing a web page is by the use of what’s called a no-index meta tag. A no-index tag is an HTML element that tells the search engines to not include the web page in their index.
However the person asking the question was concerned if their rankings might be affected.
There is an idea in the SEO...
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