What is C2PA and how does it relate to human authorship?

C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is an open standard backed by Adobe, Microsoft, Google, and others that cryptographically signs media files with provenance data — recording who created it, when, and with which tools. This tool generates the schema.org JSON-LD equivalent for web content: machine-readable markup that declares human authorship without requiring a cryptographic signing authority.

What is the difference between this and an AI watermark?

AI watermarks are signals embedded by AI tools to indicate AI-generated content (e.g. C2PA provenance data from DALL-E or Adobe Firefly). This tool is the opposite: it generates a human authorship declaration — structured data that asserts a named human being created the content, with optional AI involvement level disclosure. Think of it as a 'made by a person' label rather than a 'made by AI' label.

How do I add the JSON-LD to my WordPress site?

In WordPress, go to Appearance → Theme Editor → header.php and paste the JSON-LD script inside the section. Alternatively, use the 'Insert Headers and Footers' plugin to add it site-wide or per post. If you use Yoast SEO or RankMath, both have custom schema blocks where you can add additional JSON-LD. Paste the generated script there without overwriting Yoast's own schema.

Human-Made Content Meta-Tag Generator — C2PA & Schema.org Authorship Markup

Q: How does the embeddable badge help with backlinks?

The badge HTML links to your author profile URL (which you provide) and optionally to this tool. When other bloggers, journalists, or site owners see the badge on your site and adopt it for their own content, they link to the badge source — creating organic, high-authority backlinks from content-focused websites. This is the same mechanism that made Creative Commons license badges a major backlink source in the 2010s.

Your content details

Author

Full name *

Profile URL (About page, LinkedIn, etc.) Used for E-E-A-T — links your content to a real person

Organisation (optional)

Organisation URL (optional)

Content

Content type

Title (optional)

Page URL (optional)

Date created

Date last modified (optional)

AI Involvement

No AI used

Entirely human-written and researched

AI-assisted research only

Used AI to gather/summarise sources; writing is human

AI-assisted editing

Human-authored draft, AI used for grammar/polish

Badge Style

Badge preview

Paste inside the <head> of every page this author has written.

JSON-LD — paste in <head>

Paste anywhere in your page body — footer, sidebar, or below the article byline.

Badge HTML — paste in <body>

Additional <meta> tags for the page <head>.

Meta tags — paste in <head>

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E-E-A-T Signal

Google's Quality Rater Guidelines score content on Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. Named human authorship with a verified profile link is one of the clearest signals a page can send.

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Content Provenance

Schema.org's Person and CreativeWork types are the web standard for declaring content provenance. This tool generates the exact markup Google's crawlers read to attribute content to a human author.

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Backlink Potential

The embedded badge links to your author profile. As other writers and publishers adopt the Human-Made badge for their own content, they reference the standard — generating high-authority links from content-focused sites.

The 2026 "flight to quality" problem

An estimated 60–70% of newly published web content in 2026 is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Google's March 2026 Core Update responded by heavily rewarding verifiable human authorship — pages where a real, named person with a public profile is demonstrably responsible for the content.

This isn't about penalising AI tools. It's about rewarding accountability. A human author with a LinkedIn profile, an "About" page, and a history of published work is accountable in a way that an anonymous AI output is not. This tool makes that accountability machine-readable.

What the schema markup does

Connects content to a Person — Google can link your article to your author entity, building topical authority over time
Declares content type — Article, BlogPosting, TechArticle etc. help Google understand what kind of content to evaluate
Records the creation date — freshness signals and "first coverage" attribution both depend on dateCreated
Discloses AI involvement honestly — transparency is now a ranking signal; the schema includes an additionalProperty for AI assistance level
Links to your organisation — Publisher markup strengthens the authority signal beyond a single article

Frequently Asked Questions

What is E-E-A-T and why does it matter for SEO in 2026?

E-E-A-T stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — the framework Google's Quality Raters use to score content. In 2026, with AI-generated content flooding search results, Google's algorithm places increasing weight on verifiable human authorship signals. Pages with clear, machine-readable author markup consistently outperform anonymous content in competitive niches.

What is C2PA and how does it relate to this tool?

C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is an open standard backed by Adobe, Microsoft, and Google that cryptographically signs media files with provenance data. This tool generates the schema.org JSON-LD equivalent for web content: machine-readable markup that declares human authorship without requiring a cryptographic signing authority. Think of it as the metadata layer, not the cryptographic layer.

Does adding this markup guarantee higher rankings?

No markup is a ranking guarantee. However, schema.org Person and CreativeWork markup with a named human author is a documented E-E-A-T signal. Google's Quality Rater Guidelines explicitly state that content without a clear human author is held to a lower trust standard. Adding structured author markup makes your human authorship machine-readable — which is necessary for Google to credit it.

Should I disclose if I used AI tools to help write my content?

Yes — transparency is both an ethical best practice and an E-E-A-T signal. Google's guidance is that disclosure of AI assistance does not penalise content, but deception does. Content written by a human with AI editing assistance is still human-authored. This tool lets you declare the level accurately so your markup reflects your real process.

How do I add this to my WordPress site?

Go to Appearance → Theme Editor → header.php and paste the JSON-LD inside <head>. Alternatively, use the "Insert Headers and Footers" plugin. If you use Yoast SEO or RankMath, both have custom schema fields — paste the generated JSON-LD there without overwriting their existing schema output.

How does the embeddable badge help with backlinks?

The badge links to your author profile URL. As other writers adopt the Human-Made badge for their own content, they embed HTML that references the standard — similar to how Creative Commons license badges generated thousands of backlinks in the 2010s. The more widely the badge is adopted, the more each implementation links back to the originating ecosystem.

What content types are supported?

Article, BlogPosting, NewsArticle, TechArticle, WebPage, AboutPage, VideoObject, PodcastEpisode, Course, and Book — each maps to the correct schema.org type in the generated JSON-LD with appropriate properties for that content type.

Does this tool store my data?

No. All generation happens in your browser. Your name, URL, and content details are never sent to any server. The tool works entirely client-side.