Google Announces Support for "rel=author"

Yesterday, Google announced¹ that it will use the HTML5 rel to determine authorship of a web page as it crawls the web.

To use this, you can write the following:

<a href="../authors/andrewjones" rel="author">Andrew Jones</a>

It should link to a profile page on the same website.

Furthermore, WordPress 3.2 will come with support built in when it ships later this month². Another reason to upgrade quickly :-)

For more information, see the Google help page.