##Question:
How should I approach `<link>`-ing a web document to **three or more** separate social media accounts, residing on one or more social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.)?
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## Exposition:
In the `<head>` of each article page on a given website, I would like to indicate a relationship between that article page and **multiple** social media accounts.
At the very least, wherever possible, I would like to `<link>` each article-based web page to social media accounts for:
- the website (ie. this website, which is hosting all the articles)
- the article publisher's brand (ie. the publication the guest author is from)
- the article author (ie. the guest author)
It's worth noting that:
- the website is always the same
- the publisher-contributor sometimes changes
- the author-contributor often changes
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**E.g.** I understand that a conventional link to a Twitter account looks like this:
<link rel="me" href="https://twitter.com/example-twitter-account">
which is great, but given that (I've just learned) `rel="me"` is the [XFN](http://gmpg.org/xfn/) equivalent of `rel="author"`, I conclude this is an appropriate form to use only when referring to the author-contributor.
So what should I use for the publisher-contributor and for the website itself?
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##Ideas:
For the website's own Twitter account, could I (possibly?) use `rel="alternate"` or should I be using `rel="[something else]"`?
> *[Added]*
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> **N.B.:** No, definitely not `rel="alternate"`. According to **MDN** that's intended to indicate:
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> *Alternate representations of the **current document***.
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> **Source:** *https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel*
I initially believed that I wouldn't be able to use `rel="author"` or `rel="publisher"` to link to social media accounts, because I was already using those `rel` attributes to express relationships with specific web pages.
But now it occurs to me that I might use `rel="publisher"` more than once, like this:
<link rel="publisher" href="https://publisher-site.com/" />
<link rel="publisher" href="https://twitter.com/example-publisher-account" />
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**Added:**
I note that I can use the following:
- This Website: `<meta name="twitter:site" content="@websiteAccount">`
- Guest Author: `<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@authorAccount">`
But that's still only two out of three. It's missing the Guest Author's own Publication.
Additionally, it's Twitter-specific and I am looking for something like:
<link rel="[relationship]" href="[social-media-url]" />
which I can apply to *any* social media platform (Facebook, LinkedIn etc.)
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**Further Notes:**
The single most comprehensive list of `rel` attribute values I can find anywhere on the web is here:
- http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values