Recent content by rrlevering

Does it do relative URL resolution as well? Like can you mask the URL as itemid="/post-1696275"? It's possible some of the URL discovery stuff is really aggressive for JS link detection or something but relative resolution would be less likely (though I guess not impossible).

Not that I've ever seen (and I would consider that a bug obviously). itemid (or @id) should only be interpretable in a SD/graph space and 99% of the time in Google systems, only within the same page.

Those pages are interesting in that conceptually they are in between posts and software app markup. Posts don't generally have review semantics involved, but since they are actual users on the forum and the resource is modeled as a post I don't think it's against any policy we have to model the...

I just noticed in our (Google) systems that we're not giving the best error feedback for a problem that we have with Xenforo markup with regards to deleted/removed users. Right now Xenforo is producing: itemid="" in the Microdata markup when a user without a profile is found. This has the...

We just yesterday changed our (Google's) Search Console validation so that an image/video will also satisfy the content check. So as long as XenForo is including inline images in the markup (which I think it is) these should disappear shortly.

As I mentioned in my last post, just change Comment -> mainEntity to Comment -> parentItem and that structural problem will go away. With that change, this exact forum page here will parse fully valid. Syntax merging should work fine currently. The other issues (only image comments and...

Just a follow up note, in our upcoming launch of forum reports in Google Search Console, the Comment -> mainEntity -> DiscusionForumPosting link is going to cause error reports. It still will be parsed for a while to not penalize these forums, but only Comment -> parentItem ->...

To follow up on this, we recently changed our infrastructure to support syntax merging and your forums are now being reasonably parsed. This has been long requested by the semantic web community and this was a nice catalyst. But it would still be better to switch your Comment -> mainEntity ->...

That is correct, the https://schema.org/image properties on DFP should only contain any images from the post. It would be against our eventual guidelines to use either user images (clearly wrong) or a site logo (noise). We can always get the site logo from other places if we need it. Feel...

I totally didn't notice the replies on this thread, I'm confused why I didn't get updates. Regardless, apologies for not being around during the action. And most importantly, thanks for making changes. It heartens me to see forum platforms moving to expose their content better. I really...

Hi, my name is Ryan Levering and I currently handle structured data ingestion at Google (this guy). I've been doing some fairly spontaneous spot checks (not based on any specific problem) of some of the major forum software markups on the web just to see whether the markup is being generated in...