Fixed Structured data: ProfilePage -> Person is missing property sameAs

[Kirby]

Affected version

xenforo.com

XenForo 2.2.14+ and 2.3.0 will add support for structured data ProfilePage.

The current markup is missing recommended property sameAs for other social media identities (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)

 

[Jeremy P]

This has been updated. The values are set from the same custom fields shown in the "Identities" section of the profile, with the caveat that they must be URL fields.

 

[Kirby]

with the caveat that they must be URL fields.

Hmm, this seems somewhat bad as the default fields (Facebook, Twitter / X ) aren't URL fields.

 

[Jeremy P]

It's not ideal, but it's not entirely clear if/how they're being used for rich results, and it's difficult to imagine them being viable as any kind of ranking signal. I'm not sure it's worth further time investment unless they add significant value. We almost opted not to include them in any form.

 

[dethfire]

As a professional SEO, Google is trying to connect the dots between the content and the author and they are reaching out into the link graph to help them understand authors in a new age of AI-gen content.

 

[Jeremy P]

AI farms are more than capable of adding sameAs metadata of their own, and Google has indicated they aren't too interested in whether content was AI generated or not. As far as Google has stated, most/all schema is primarily to power rich results and its effect on ranking is indirect at best. These in particular are most likely to power the profile links in the knowledge panel: