GSC errors for location and location address

This is also showing up for performer and organizer name. If these fields are not needed for our event, we wish not to get flagged for not having them. Appreciate the help.

Hello, thanks so much for your message! I believe these are not considered by Google as errors so they shouldn’t affect your ranking or SEO if they’re only appearing as “Warnings”, so I’d suggest leaving them as-is. However, for the location, you can probably label them as “Virtual” so they don’t get flagged.

As for performer or organizer, please note that to remove them, you’d have to remove them entirely from the JSON-LD with something similar to this:

/*
* Disable JSON LD markup used by search engines
*/
add_filter( 'tribe_json_ld_markup', '__return_empty_string' );

(although this code isn’t verified so you may have to test it on your site, as it may remove the whole event schema too)

For your reference, we use JSON-LD as explained here: https://json-ld.org/

I hope this helps but please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have further questions.

Sorry for the delayed response. They are showing up as errors, not warnings. A majority of them are flagged as an error on the /events/ page for missing location and missing location address. Suggestions other than flagging for virtual? There are 154 of them.
thanks,

Any update here?

Also, that removed all of the schema data for the event so that looks like that is not a viable option. Please advise, thanks!

Hello!

I saw you started a new thread, but I marked it as resolved since it was my fault that I didn’t get back to you here. I’m sorry for this!

Would you mind giving me a link where you are experiencing these errors so I can evaluate the messages you’re getting further? We’re currently trying to improve our delivery of the microdata and such, so I’d like to use you as an example to escalate this if possible.

Thanks!

Sure, this is one of 174 events that are being flagged in GSC for not having schema markup for location and location address. There aren’t any in the event so we need a way to remove the schema for the event or a way to add something to that field so that it isn’t flagged.
https://tinyurl.com/4tazw7cw
Thanks and let me know what you find out.