aeo.article-author-missing

What to change

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.article-author-missing

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.article-author-missing"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.article-author-missing on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.article-author-missing"] to a tool.

• Warningaeo.text-needs-javascriptThe HTML is an empty JavaScript app shell; most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, so they see no content.
• Infoaeo.question-not-answered-firstA heading asks a question but no short, direct answer follows it.
• Infoaeo.unstructured-textA long page (600+ words) has no subheadings, lists or tables.
• Warningaeo.schema-text-not-visibleFAQPage, QAPage or HowTo structured data holds questions, answers or steps that are not in the page's HTML text.
• Infoaeo.article-author-incompleteThe article's author is a bare name, without a url or sameAs that identifies the person.
• Warningaeo.article-dates-missingArticle structured data lacks datePublished (warning) or dateModified (info), which tell answer engines how fresh the content is.
• Infoaeo.article-date-not-visibleThe article's structured data has a date, but the page shows none.
• Infoaeo.organization-missingThe home page has no Organization (or Person) structured data.