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I am using the default wordpress theme (twentyseventee) and I see that the header includes the following:

<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

I would like to also use the hCard microformat to describe my info (photo, name, email, etc.) However, the hCard requires the following link:

<link rel="profile" href="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard">

Now I am thinking that if I have two links with rel="profile" it is very likely that the search engines will drop one or the other.

Is there any information about that somewhere?

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This answer has some pretty good information about that.

rel="profile" was dropped in HTML5, it may not be of a whole lot of use anymore. While it may be more useful to some of your users with older browsers, most search engines are probably disinterested with it now.

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  • They say that the `profile="..."` attribute was dropped, but not the `rel="profile"`. – Alexis Wilke Apr 06 '17 at 05:31
  • However, this links actually shows that you can have multiple links as I showed in my question (from the answer you pointed out!) http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-profile – Alexis Wilke Apr 06 '17 at 06:02
  • profile has been dropped as an attribute value https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#linkTypes – albert Sep 10 '17 at 02:13