Duplicate Implement new structured data markup for discussion forum and profile pages for use in Google Search

[Stuart Wright]

Please see this page

New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page markup | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

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from Google where they lay out how to implement structured data markup in order to let Google know about discussion forum and profile pages.
This is newly published as of November 27, 2023, is highly recommended and most likely easily implementable for Xenforo 2.3.

Discussion Forum (DiscussionForumPosting) Schema Markup | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

You can use discussion forum structured data to help Google understand your community forum content.

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Profile Page (ProfilePage) Schema Markup | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

You can use profile page structured data to help provide information about the people and organizations on your website.

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Please, please implement this to get maximum success with Google ASAP.
Thanks

 

[BikeGremlin]

Please see this page

New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page markup | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

developers.google.com

from Google where they lay out how to implement structured data markup in order to let Google know about discussion forum and profile pages.
This is newly published as of November 27, 2023, is highly recommended and most likely easily implementable for Xenforo 2.3.

Discussion Forum (DiscussionForumPosting) Schema Markup | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

You can use discussion forum structured data to help Google understand your community forum content.

developers.google.com

Profile Page (ProfilePage) Schema Markup | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

You can use profile page structured data to help provide information about the people and organizations on your website.

developers.google.com

Please, please implement this to get maximum success with Google ASAP.
Thanks

Not really ASAP IMO. The basic idea is that Google wants all the Internet to be fast, easy, and cheap for them to index.
That's what it boils down to.

As far as I could tell, they have no problems indexing forums, including the XenForo-based ones. They're just trying to save a few bucks (and promising us better rankings if we play nice LOL).

The forum-structured-data is a nice to have. Probably a very nice to have. But I wouldn't file it under ASAP updates.

Relja

 

[Stuart Wright]

Not really ASAP IMO. The basic idea is that Google wants all the Internet to be fast, easy, and cheap for them to index.
That's what it boils down to.

As far as I could tell, they have no problems indexing forums, including the XenForo-based ones. They're just trying to save a few bucks (and promising us better rankings if we play nice LOL).

The forum-structured-data is a nice to have. Probably a very nice to have. But I wouldn't file it under ASAP updates.

Relja

Well since 2.3 is imminent, my 'ASAP' means 'in 2.3'. Since if it's not in 2.3, it may be a while.
And we will all rank the importance of complying with what Google wants differently, but personally, if Google is giving us some grease to ease the addition of our data in a competitive world (not just between forums but forums vs other platforms) then I think we should apply it to give ourselves the very best chance of getting more traffic.

Also, currently our robots.txt includes
Disallow: /members/
and given the above, I think maybe that's going to need a rethink.

 

[Chris D]

This will be included in 2.2.14 (and of course 2.3.0) and there is another thread where we've been tracking this.

We've already added some improvements in 2.2.13 and the discussion continues here:

Implemented Thread 'Markup improvements for Google'

Mar 17, 2023

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 an ideal way for our systems to ingest. You can stick a URL in http://validator.schema.org to get an idea of what your markup for a given URL looks like. I have a couple of high-level suggestions to take or leave as you see fit:

1. Include more than the OP with...

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[dethfire]

We need this shipped as a patch for 2.2.13. Other platforms already added this schema and we're losing out on Google exposure for our forums. Google is finally showing us some respect and we can't wait a few weeks for 2.2.14 to be released.

@BikeGremlin there is a lot of optional schema out there, but these new ones by Google directly relate to SERP features our forums can win and take advantage of. Every day we don't have this schema, we're behind and losing out.

 

[Chris D]

This is very alarmist. We will do what we can, but your site isn't going to be wiped off the face of the search engines just because you don't have this, and if it was implemented yesterday, it's not going to make that much of a difference in the long run.

Calm down, take a deep breath, and we'll get it to you as soon as we possibly can.

 

[dethfire]

This is very alarmist. We will do what we can, but your site isn't going to be wiped off the face of the search engines just because you don't have this, and if it was implemented yesterday, it's not going to make that much of a difference in the long run.

Calm down, take a deep breath, and we'll get it to you as soon as we possibly can.

Haha Chris, I feel you, but also, this is my job as a customer to make sure you understand this is important and I've been a professional SEO for 20 years. I know what I'm talking about

 

[Chris D]

I think we've already demonstrated that we understand how important this.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Thanks, Chris.