Incorrect structured data might remove rich snippets – WNC-632900

  • I’ve been sent an email from Google with this heading and having spoken to a couple of people on their forum they have identified an issue with my Theme – WP Twenty Ten.

    They’ve helped me to run a Structured Data Test and I have 2,593 errors running across my site all related to Article.

    One person has told me I need to change theme, I don’t really want to do that.

    Another person suggested coming on here for help – her comments as follows:

    Other users were running into this issue (they were using the Genesis theme) and the theme was updated to address the issue. Perhaps it’s worth making a request in your theme’s support forum. I believe the fix implemented was a switch from Article type to CreativeWork.

    Can anyone help me??? I have no technical ability and this has thrown me into a total panic.

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  • I just recently discovered the same issue on my blog running the Genesis theme but mine was dated 12/15/2015 and I never received an email about it. I’m not sure what to do either – I’ve got about 346 posts with this issue; however, I just recently changed my URL format from year/month/title to just title (removing the date so that the post will not be ‘dated’) and that’s what all of these are from.

    This is one of them:
    https://lifeinahouseoftestosterone.com/2014/11/kirk-camerons-saving-christmas-theaters-november-14/

    https://lifeinahouseoftestosterone.com/kirk-camerons-saving-christmas-theaters-november-14/

    Any suggestions would be most appreciated as to what I need to do to fix this issue. Thanks!

    I am using the Twenty Ten theme and have missing data errors in Google Webmaster Tools. I got the fix below by going to my functions.php file:

    function twentyten_posted_on() {
	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date updated">%3$s</span></a>',
			get_permalink(),
			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
			get_the_date()
		),
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>, date modified: %4$s',
			get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
			get_the_author(),
			esc_attr( get_the_modified_date() )

    It entails adding “updated” to class=”entry-date”. However, though this fix eliminates the “missing” errors in Google, Google actually displays the original published date, not the date I updated the article. Although I did get both the published and updated date to display properly on my blog by adding “date modified: %4$s'” and “esc_attr( get_the_modified_date() )” as shown above, Google still displays the published date.

    I hope the above helps. I’m still trying to find a fix, however, that displays the updated date on Google, not the published date.
    Kenny

    I just received a similar message from Google regarding incorrect structured data and removal of rich snippets. However, they said they had done a manual action at the http url, but my active site is https. So, do I have duplicate content that I need to remove? How do I do that?

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