### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/3207

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<sup>Originally posted by **obrl-soil** November  7, 2022</sup>
Having recently started a Mastodon account, I see there's an option to help 'verify' one's account against one or more external websites, described in the [docs here](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/) and more generally [here](http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me), with results that look [like this](https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon). tl;dr one adds `rel="me"` to the `<a></a>` tag when linking to one's Mastodon profile from elsewhere.

I'm not sure how to do this on my blog's About page except by editing the HTML immediately after rendering the site and before pushing it to GH pages [like this](https://github.com/obrl-soil/obrl-soil.github.io/commit/7aeb06aaf977df0edc35b2a2eb58da9f76de6afb).

Would it be possible to add an attribute to the yml in `about.qmd` to help automate this? e.g.

 ```
 links:
    - icon: mastodon
      aria-label: Mastodon
      href: https://mastodon.social/@yourhandle
      rel: "me"
```
 
There are other variations I've seen like `rel="me nofollow"` that may also need be handled.</div>
dragonstyle
2022-11-07T13:38:32Z
dragonstyle
v1.3
closed
rel="me" verification on About page links
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/3212