Validation errors

  • Resolved bchampagne

    (@bchampagne)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, i have been using your plugin for my company Blog. I enjoy the power and freedom of placing the image i wish for the open graph. BUT, W3C validator keeps telling me their is an error in the code. I talked to a senior programmer and SEO instructor and he tell sme this is the error “itemprop=”image” (actual error message – The itemprop attribute was specified, but the element is not a property of any item.)

    The errors are nested in between these hidden comments

    <!– START – Facebook Open Graph, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags 1.7.4.4 –>

    <!– END – Facebook Open Graph, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags –>

    He says that the itemprop tag is only available between the Body tags and can not be anywhere else because of its Microdata information.

    He also tells me that Google penalizes in the long run web Sites that have validation errors. Is this code necessary if it actually is not used? Or is it something else?

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  • If you aren’t comfortable with having the itemprop="image" tag, you can just disable it on the page settings at Include Schema.org "itemprop" Image tag

    While it’s true the itemprop="image" tag normally belongs inside a object, it’s also true that Google+ picks it up and we don’t believe that validation error is reason to be penalized by Google.

    Thread Starter bchampagne

    (@bchampagne)

    AWESOME!
    thank you for the reply.

    I will chat with our SEO manager and explain to him what you said. if he still insists that i should remove it, at leasts i know where to do that

    ??

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