Verify Person Schema with Sameas Links

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Validates that Person schema markup exists, parses cleanly, and carries sameAs links to the owner's social profiles, tying the personal brand together as one entity for Google.

Category: Website QA Audit

Use this when running Layer 1 (Digital Plumbing Checks) of the Website QA Audit – schema is how Google connects the person, the site, and the social profiles into one entity.

Inputs

  • Site URL (homepage and about page are the usual schema homes)
  • Google Rich Results Test (search.google.com/test/rich-results) and validator.schema.org
  • The owner's list of social profile URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X)
  • The audit report/spreadsheet for logging results

Steps

  1. Run the homepage URL through the Google Rich Results Test and confirm the page's structured data parses with zero errors.
  2. Inspect the detected markup for a Person type (or Person nested in LocalBusiness/Organization) naming the site owner – exact name match with the site and GBP.
  3. Confirm the Person markup includes a sameAs array, and that each entry is a full URL to one of the owner's real social profiles.
  4. Click every sameAs URL – each must resolve to the owner's live profile, not a 404, a placeholder, or someone else's account.
  5. Re-validate at validator.schema.org to catch warnings the Rich Results Test skips (missing image, url, or jobTitle properties).
  6. Log schema type found, sameAs URLs verified, and validator results in the audit report.

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Person schema present and parsing with zero errors in the Rich Results Test
  • sameAs array present and every listed URL resolves to the owner's live profile
  • Validation results and verified URL list logged, linked back to /website-qa-audit

Example(s)

  • Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run.

File in the zip: skills/website-qa-audit/verify-person-schema-with-sameas-links.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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