Breadcrumbs issue – fill name or item.name

  • Resolved Karolina Vyskocilova

    (@vyskoczilova)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    Google Search Console is arguing about our breadcrumbs schema markup. We have the latest WP & Yoast plugin installed and it seems like the very first item (homepage) is missing the name. I’ve checked and:

    • Page title is set correctly
    • I’ve added manually breadcrumb title and it had no effect
    • All the other pages have name but I don’t see any difference
    • We implement the breadcrumbs with very basic yoast_breadcrum(); function

    See the search console error here:
    https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fsedlakovalegal.cz%2Fsluzby

    How to fix it? It has affected 80 pages since May 22 (when I updated from an old version to the new one) and the very same happened on the other site of hours (which is just a language variation of this one).

    Thanks in advance

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  • Hi @vyskoczilova,

    Thank you for reaching out!

    Can you please let us know what is configured for the homepage anchor text under SEO → Search Appearance → Breadcrumbs? Can you share a screenshot of the setting on this page?

    Thread Starter Karolina Vyskocilova

    (@vyskoczilova)

    Hi @jeroenrotty,

    sure, here you go: https://send.firefox.com/download/6834ada15a9c3b12/#o3kxRfJUGEUB4IXDaJQeSw (the screenshot will be available for a week or 20 downloads).

    Karolina

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    Hi @vyskoczilova,

    Thank you for providing the screenshot. That was the missing piece we needed to help you! We see that the anchor text for the homepage contains only an image. As there is no text, the breadcrumb title outputs an empty field after removing the HTML (image code).

    Please submit an issue report to our GitHub repository for Yoast SEO. You will need an account to create a new issue. Please provide as much information about the issue and don’t forget to include the URL to this conversation in your report.

    In the meantime, please add text to the anchor field.

    Note: Images that are important to your site should have text to describe them. There are lots of people using that internet that cannot see the image (visually impaired users, slow internet, text-based browsers). Don’t forget that social platforms, search engines, and many other platforms use bots to process your site. Bots cannot see images either. If possible, I’d recommend dropping the image altogether.

    Thread Starter Karolina Vyskocilova

    (@vyskoczilova)

    Hi @amboutwe,

    thanks a lot for your answer. Based on it, I have fixed the issue adding
    <span class="screen-reader-text">Homepage</span> which works well, but it’s kind of unexpected ??

    I’ve opened the issue here https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/15469 and closing the issue since it’s fixed.

    Thanks once again for your help

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