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The root page of a website (i.e. http://example.com/) is special in that it is the default landing page. It might contain a lot of different object types.

It might be considered a Website, or a Blog etc...

But should it also be marked up as the primary page for the given object. For example, a person might have a blog/website that has many pages - so should the root page be marked up as a Person and include the additional information?

Same applies for other Things like Organisation, Book, Event etc etc

Basically the idea is to indicate to things like Google that this root page on the website represents the primary place on the Internet for this person. I.e., this is the persons website...

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    In case you don’t know it yet, Schema.org added a property that allows to denote that the `Person` is the primary entity of a page (see link in my answer). – unor Feb 26 '16 at 23:04
  • Thanks for the update @unor - I had seen the update. I also spotted some new guidance on Google that said only the root page needs to have this markup. – simbolo Feb 28 '16 at 12:03
  • Note that currently/probably [Google Search won’t display Rich Snippets for a website’s homepage](http://stackoverflow.com/a/35103577/1591669). – unor Feb 28 '16 at 12:10

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Update: Schema.org added properties that allow to denote the primary item: mainEntity and mainEntityOfPage

Schema.org doesn’t provide a way to mark a Person item as the main item of the page. WebPage’s mainContentOfPage property can not have a value like Person. However, it gets discussed to make this possible (e.g., by changing mainContentOfPage’s range to Thing).

So consumers (like search engines) have currently no definite way to know that an item is the "main" content of a page, they can only make guesses.

In general, if all of your pages contain information about you, all of your pages could/should have a Person item, not only the page you consider to be "canonical".

So you could use Person on every page you authored (related via author property), and give these Person items the root page URL as value for the url property.

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