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Best practices — Google Search Central
Why identify the author and provide a credible biography?
High-stakes content, especially YMYL, should name a real author with a biography, verifiable credentials and links to other publications or professional profiles.
Further analysis
Use this entry as an audit checkpoint. The cited source establishes the context; the direct answer identifies what to check before choosing an action.
In SFT, this topic relates to Trust. Check whether the signal is visible on the page, connected to the rest of the website and supported by understandable evidence.
Related search terms include authorship, author biography, author E-E-A-T. Use them to describe the issue in a brief, audit or answer page.
Applying SFT
Trust requires observable evidence: sources, consistency, citations, identifiable authors and verifiable claims.