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February 1, 2014

Fix Blogger Structured Data Testing Tool Error

You can use Google webmaster structured data testing tool in this url: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets, it will test your data markup and also to ensure that Google can do extract data structure on your web page, you can also see how your page preview in search results on search engine (rich snippets previews). But, how to fix Blogger structured data testing tool error which shown after you preview your page on that testing tool?

Fix Blogger Structured Data

This some common error on Blogger page when doing preview test using webmaster richsnippets testing tool above and how to fix them:

1. Authorship and publisher markup error:

Authorship is not working for this page
Cannot verify that rel=author markup has established authorship .....
Cannot verify publisher markup .....

Blogger Structured Data Testing Tool Error

When this error find, a simple way to fix it is connect your blog with your Google+ page, from your Dashboard click Google+ and click Get Started, follow rest of instruction until finished, see image below:

Connect Blogger With Google+

Or you can add this code below after <head> in your Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML:

<link rel='Author' href='http://plus.google.com/YOUR-Googleplus-ID'/>
<link rel='Publisher' href='http://plus.google.com/YOUR-Googleplus-ID'/>

2. Error about updated field and author hcard.

Error: Missing required field "updated"
Error: Missing required hCard "author"

To fix this issue go to Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML , scroll down and find hfeed and hentry, you can also search about two code above with ctrl-F inside Edit HTML and type to search.

change hfeed  >>>>> h-feed
change hentry >>>>> h-entry

Or if only update fiield error, find <data:post.timestamp/>, and change it to:

<span class='updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>

3. Image_url, blogid, postid is not a part of schema: 

Error: Page contains property "image_url" which is not part of the schema.
Error: Page contains property "blogid" which is not part of the schema.
Error: Page contains property "postid" which is not part of the schema.
 or
Error: Page contains property "image_url" which is not part of the schema.
Error: Page contains property "aiablogid" which is not part of the schema.
Error: Page contains property "aiapostid" which is not part of the schema.

Steps how to fix this erorr from your Dashboard, Templates, Edit HTML and find 

<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>
 and
<meta expr:content='data:blog.blogId' itemprop='blogId'/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.id' itemprop='postId'/>

Change it to:

<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image'/>
 and
<!-- <meta expr:content='data:blog.blogId' itemprop='blogId'/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.id' itemprop='postId'/> -->

Or you can delete 2 line about postid and blogid.

Maybe that's it three about common error which find when you test your page with richsnippets preview in Google webmaster tool, this markup data is very useful to tell search engine how your page look, and it can be make your blog or website more SEO.

Update October 18, 2015

If you cannot find:
<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>

go to Edit HTML template, scroll down and find below code: 
<a expr:name='data:post.id'/>

right above it paste this code below: 
<b:if cond="data:post.thumbnailUrl">
  <meta expr:content='data:post.thumbnailUrl' itemprop='image'/>
</b:if>

For datePublished Error, fix it from Dashboard Setting and choose Language and formatting, change Timestamp Format to full date format: 'Day, Month Date, Year'  ==> 'Sunday, October 18, 2015', After that set it on your Blog Post Layout.

To fix Headline missing is required blogger error:

Find inside Edit Html Template menu this code below: 
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"></h3>

Change it to: 
<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="headline"></h3>

Best Regards and Good Luck,


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21 comments:

  1. Tomasz DobrowolskiSeptember 30, 2014 at 8:56 PM

    Great :) thanks to you I fixed my problems :) thank you
    http://poszukujacraju.blogspot.com
    I have still the same msg about update and i did everything like you say.
    and still no picture on google search

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  2. MarkNovember 12, 2014 at 7:05 AM

    Thumbs up! It worked like magic!

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  3. Parveen KumarDecember 10, 2014 at 1:43 PM

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    I have also the same msg about update and i did everything like you say.
    and still no picture on Google search. Please respond !!!!!!!!!!

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    1. UnknownDecember 13, 2014 at 8:32 PM

      Hi,

      If you try to fix about your update error, try to find 'timestamp-link' and at the same row and before closing </a>

      and add: <span class='updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>

      This article about how to fix error on richsnippet testing tool, if you want to know how about show your picture on google search, maybe you must find some related article to solve your problem.

      Thanks.

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  4. Daniel George MorganDecember 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM

    Hi everyone
    Im having a problem with : Error: Page contains property "image_url" which is not part of the schema.
    Error: Page contains property "blogid" which is not part of the schema.
    Error: Page contains property "postid" which is not part of the schema


    I do not have this on html to change can anybody help me please

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    1. UnknownDecember 28, 2014 at 10:11 PM

      Hi Daniel,

      First sorry for late reply, to solve your problem follow steps number 3 in this article.

      good luck.

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  5. UnknownDecember 16, 2014 at 5:42 PM

    Is there any further reading you would recommend on this?

    Amela
    Aldershot seo company

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  6. sriragaFebruary 7, 2015 at 5:37 PM

    Thankyou Sir,

    This article is very helpful.. and i resolved all the issues except duplicate titles .. i'm trying to resolve soon.. once again Thank you very much

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  7. K4lb0iMarch 3, 2015 at 2:11 AM

    Thank you so much! I tried it on my website Lokalkusinero.com.. It really did solve my problem.

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  8. NEELMarch 24, 2015 at 11:17 AM

    Thank you very much after 3 month I solved this one but please please solve my one problem.

    I am using blogger with own domain, i submitted article but showing wrong in Google search result like title and description.

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  9. Michael LengJune 6, 2015 at 11:03 PM

    Good informative. I have used it with my blogs. I will wait and see the result come out tomorrow.

    Thanks,

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  10. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 9:17 AM

    Thank you! Very useful article, it do solve my problem

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  11. UnknownJanuary 17, 2016 at 4:05 AM

    The "publisher html didn't work for me.

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  12. Tugadar February 20, 2016 at 10:37 PM

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  13. drepapaJuly 3, 2016 at 12:48 AM

    Hi I have issues around
    A value for the url field is required.

    please how can you help

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  14. UnknownSeptember 15, 2016 at 10:46 PM

    very nice post and here from your post i got the lot of information for my blog thanks for this nice and wonderful post i will share it another blogger friends too

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  15. VDB ZoneMarch 20, 2018 at 8:49 PM

    Hi Faldy, great tutorial. I am still getting an error "Url: A value for the url field is required." If you may please help me to fix this. Here's my blog so you can check https://vandeweybalao.blogspot.com. Thanks in advance for your help!

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  16. BindassEntertainmentMay 24, 2018 at 2:07 PM

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