Not planned Please make XF compliant with Sept Google Structured Data Guidelines

[vij]

XF Forums appear to have LOST the ability to show star ratings in Google Search. I have checked many forums and stars don't show on Google for forums using XF anymore - they used to previously.
@Chris D @Mike

Could this be the reason?

In perhaps the biggest change to Reviews Rich Results is the mandatory requirement of the name property in the featured snippets.

Publishers who rely on schema structured data plugins, including Reviews WordPress Plugins, should check if their plugin is currently including the “name” property.

If the name property is not included with your plugin then look for an update to your plugin and update it. If there is no “name” update then it may be something your plugin maker has in a future update.

You may wish to contact your plugin maker to find out when this is coming because the “name” property is now important.

Google Updates Reviews Rich Results - Check Your Structured Data

Google updated Reviews Rich Results. Change affects publishers with reviews structured data.

www.searchenginejournal.com

 

[Kevin]

Could this be the reason?

From that page you linked to I think the bigger issue would be ratings are now only being shown for specific schema types, none of which are applicable to stock XF installs.

 

[vij]

Yes @Kevin .. Forums using @Bob 's Showcase and the RMS addons have also lost the star ratings on google.

 

[vij]

Google announced that the display of rich results reviews will be limited. This means that any reviews outside of those limits will no longer show review snippets.

These are the allowed schema types:

• schema.org/Book
• schema.org/Course
• schema.org/CreativeWorkSeason
• schema.org/CreativeWorkSeries
• schema.org/Episode
• schema.org/Event
• schema.org/Game
• schema.org/HowTo
• schema.org/LocalBusiness
• schema.org/MediaObject
• schema.org/Movie
• schema.org/MusicPlaylist
• schema.org/MusicRecording
• schema.org/Organization
• schema.org/Product
• schema.org/Recipe
• schema.org/SoftwareApplication

 

[djbaxter]

This is not really a Xenforo issue. This is a Google issue.

Review Snippet (Review, AggregateRating) Structured Data | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

A review snippet is a short excerpt of a review or rating. Explore this guide to learn about Google review snippets and how to enable rich snippets.

developers.google.com

Making Review Rich Results more helpful

Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index

webmasters.googleblog.com

Google and Review Snippets - GatherUp

Co-authored by Mike Blumenthal and Aaron Weiche

gatherup.com

Google's New Announcement About Review Schema | Google News: Important Changes & Features

All my Slack channels are already buzzing about this. I'd love to see how you guys interpret this announcement from Google: That’s why, with this change, we’re not going to display review rich results anymore for the schema types localBusiness and Organization (and their subtypes) in cases...

www.localsearchforum.com

Distilled – Now Brainlabs

www.distilled.net

 

[Chris D]

We can't do anything about this. Google has changed the requirements and the general "resource" concept isn't sufficiently specific enough to accept review structured data going forward.

 

[djbaxter]

We can't do anything about this. Google has changed the requirements and the general "resource" concept isn't sufficiently specific enough to accept review structured data going forward.

Also, Google has changed, reversed, and changed again their policy regarding reviews, review stars, and rich snippets several times in the past 4-5 years.

It's up to you as an owner to try to keep up with all these changes if it matters to your site and accommodate them as best you can. This is the case no matter what platform you use, not specific to Xenforo forums.

 

[vij]

Edit:
never mind.