Structured data for DiscussionForumPosting: text, image or video is required

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Affected version

2.3.0 RC 4

See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/discussion-forum?hl=en#text-sd

See also discussion here: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/markup-improvements-for-google.213088/page-7#posts

 

[Jeremy P]

Per @rrlevering, I believe most of these warnings should disappear eventually as we do include the image in the inline (microdata) markup:

Implemented Post in thread 'Markup improvements for Google'

Jun 5, 2024

I just recently upgraded to 2.2.15 and ever since have been getting a ton or these errors from Google. It does seem the threads giving the errors for my site ate threads that have one or more posts with only media or pictures and no text. I do hope this can be fixed in the next update.

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.

• rrlevering

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Though this does still impact the first posts of threads, where we use JSON-LD instead. In any case, as I've commented previously:

1) This is typically a tiny minority of posts (<0.4% of posts on this site)
2) This does not affect the rich result eligibility of other posts in the thread
3) Schema does not have any direct impact on ranking, and invalid schema does not hurt ranking

However this is still worth sorting eventually.

 

[briansol]

I'm seeing that the tag is there but google is not picking it up.

This is a new url showing as of last night (been a few days on 2.3 now)

eg:




the itemprop=image is there but google doesn't seem to recognize it. Is itemprop the correct attribute?

 

[Jeremy P]

That's the avatar, which is the image for the author, and not the image for the content itself.

 

[briansol]

ahh, ok, that makes more sense then. This thread doesn't have an attachment. So, it should find the text microdata, but it doesn't.

 

[Jeremy P]

It’s likely from an individual post inside the thread.