HTML: How to get credit (authorship) for developing a page/site

Question

Despite the new features in HTML5, the use of rich snipers, microdata and what not...I still can't find a proper way to get credit for developing a page/site.

Of course, you have <meta name="author" content="Some name/company"> BUT that is for the OWNER of the site. I am simply the developer.

How can I properly code, within a page, myself? How do you do it/code it?

Answer 1

There's also a growing tendency toward including a humans.txt file containing that type of information including whatever plugins you use.

Check out http://humanstxt.org/ for more info it is pretty cool.

Answer 2

Use a rel=author link. This is the semantic way to do it.

<a href="site" rel="author">Written by ME</a>

This will produce the rich text snippets in Google search results when done correctly. More information here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2539557?hl=en

Here's an example of what it looks like when it works:

And here is a tool that let's you know you've done it correctly: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Answer 3

"The name attribute on the meta element must be either a defined metadata name or a registered metadata name ... A registered metadata name is any metadata name registered in the central MetaExtensions registration page." -http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/meta.name.html#registered-metadata-name

Defined names: application-name, author, description, generator, keywords

MetaExtensions registration page: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

So, <meta name="web_author" description="http://stackoverflow.com/users/931377/omar"> seems closest.