🔗 Supporting Author Authority & Interconnections

👉 If multiple authors are on a website, make sure they support each other’s prestige through:

• 📚 Citations
• 💬 Quotes
• 🌐 Official website links (linking to each other)
• ✍️ Being co-authors on content

To understand these connections better, check out the Authority Layers explained below. ⬇️

🧠 What Are Author Layers?

📊 A schema demonstrates how Author Pages are connected to one another.

🔍 You can think of Author Layers as "layers of layers"—interlinked web pages that reflect a person's expertise and experience on a subject in a consistent and meaningful way.

👥 Example of Author Connections in Authority Layers:

• ✍️ Author 1 and Author 2 are linked from their official websites.
• 🔁 Both of their websites link back to the main source through:
  • 📄 Biography pages
  • 🎨 Artworks or authored content
• 🤝 Author 1 is also connected to Author 3.
• 🌟 Author 3 is connected to a Seed Source (a highly authoritative and reputable source).
• 🏛️ This Seed Source is further connected to a government website.

📈 Building Trust: Layer by Layer

🔁 As these layers of authority and reputation signals repeat and expand—quarter by quarter—they continuously increase search engine confidence.

✅ Think of these layers as the most natural and hardest-to-manipulate trust signals, almost like a modern form of PageRank based on expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T).