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Structured Data Errors In Webmaster Tools
8 replies · Started by Anonymous on February 23, 2015
Hi Tom,
My site is now showing a lot of structured data errors in Webmaster Tools since switching to GeneratePress.
My posts are now showing "Missing: updated" with a WPFooter warning "Node is empty. Double check that this is desired and consider removing." a WebPage error "Blog is not a known valid target type for the mainContentOfPage property." and a hatom warning "Node is empty. Double check that this is desired and consider removing."
My pages are now showing "Missing: updated" and "Missing: author" with a WPFooter warning "Node is empty. Double check that this is desired and consider removing."
Any idea what is causing these errors in Webmaster tools?
Hi Steven:
The "Missing: Updated" and "Missing: author" warnings will show when you're viewing a page, as pages generally don't have these tags - blog posts do.
"Blog is not a known valid target type for the mainContentOfPage property" - this is an interesting one I'll have to look in to - from what I can see, most major WP themes are using this same structure, so I'll have to see why it's throwing an error.
The "Node" is empty warnings don't mean much - it means there's no child schema elements inside that parent - you won't be penalized for something like that at all.
Hope this helps :)
I am having the same error for "Blog is not a known valid target type for the mainContentOfPage property." on a site.
I've also the following error for the search result page which is probably related:
"SearchResultsPage is not a known valid target type for the mainContentOfPage property."
I hope you can find a solution for this.
Best regards,
Bart
Looking into this :)
As they are now won't harm your SEO at all, so don't worry - but I will find the correct tags for those elements.
This has been resolved in 1.2.9.
I also experienced the same thing "Node is empty. Double check that this is desired and Consider removing. "Before giving up a warning in google webmaster tools
error
Missing: author
Missing: entry-title
Missing: updated
Thanks
Usually you only see those tags (author, updated) in blog posts, not static pages.
However, there should definitely be an entry-title - can you link me to the page?
thanks Sir
I read elsewhere that the tool is most definitely returning a false warning and that Google is aware of the issue and taking steps to resolve.