Hello. We are currently receiving this message in our Google Search Console. I’m not entirely sure what it signifies. Could I get more clarity on this issue? Is there a solution? Additionally, I would like to mention that we have tried using multiple themes for the platform, but the same error persi…

The first thing you should note is that the link you showed indicates that the link does not have Discussion Forum Schema. That link has “Breadcrumbs” schema only, no “Discussion Forum” schema at all. That’s happening because you’re testing the link in “smartphone” mode, and not in “desktop” mode. h…

I should point out, I think it’s an important bug in Discourse that the schema does not show up in smartphone mode. Google wouldn’t know to flag it (because Google only flags errors in schema that’s present), but smartphone crawling and indexing is the default for Google for years now, so it’s impor…

The issue described in first post plus some other issues has been fixed in this commit: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d9ca6c3bb90c15d32b3f2ece1709522be65fb690 Thanks for the suggestions here @rrit ! :+1: [image] Dan Fabulich: To reproduce the critical errors, you have to test a…

[image] Arpit Jalan: should we include first post on all the pages in crawler view to fix the schema issues? No I don’t think so, duplicating content never ends well, are there other options

[image] Sam Saffron: are there other options The other option would be to replace microdata schema with JSON-LD (which Google recommends ). This would decouple rendered data from structured data and will also work on mobile (as Dan pointed out above ). We’re already using JSON-LD schema in sol…

[image] Sam Saffron: [image] techAPJ: should we include first post on all the pages in crawler view to fix the schema issues? No I don’t think so, duplicating content never ends well, are there other options Do not include the data/text of the first post on subsequent pages, but always…

[image] Arpit Jalan: The other option would be to replace microdata schema with JSON-LD (which Google recommends ). This would decouple rendered data from structured data and will also work on mobile (as Dan pointed out above ). No rule without an exemption: For DiscussionForumPosting Google r…

[image] Arpit Jalan: The issue described in first post plus some other issues has been fixed in this commit: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d9ca6c3bb90c15d32b3f2ece1709522be65fb690https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d9ca6c3bb90c15d32b3f2ece1709522be65fb690 Thanks for t…

[image] Ayke: Do not include the data/text of the first post on subsequent pages, but always add itemprop="url" pointing to the first page: Yes, we’re doing that now per the recent commit but even after adding that we’re missing some required fields (author, datePublished, text) for subsequen…

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sam (Sam Saffron) December 28, 2023, 11:43pm 15

Sure, this sounds like a much more correct solution.

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