error in Google indexing missing field ‘name’ (in ‘author’)

[HaMooooDi]

Dears

kindly I'm receiving this error in google indexing for some pages




missing field ‘name’ (in ‘author’)

is is an issue with the script or from my customization

one of the pages affected https://www.ienajah.com/vb/node/106777
using Version 5.7.5

advice please

[glennrocksvb]

You can use Google Rich Text Result tool and enter a URL to find more details of the issue.

https://search.google.com/test/rich-results/result/r%2Fdiscussion-forum?id=2wDovYKSl4Hw2ATJ7lMtLg

The tool says it is missing the field 'name' for the 'Comment' type.

<div class="userinfo b-userinfo b-post__hide-when-deleted"
    itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    ...
    <a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
        class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></a>
​

In the above HTML code from the link you posted, it has:

itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"

but it's missing the corresponding field called 'name' of that Person object in:

<a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
    class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></a>
​

This issue seems to be happening in vB5 only and seems to be fixed in vB6. To fix this issue, the username part should have itemprop="name" like this:

<a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
    class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><span itemprop="name"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></span></a>
​

I recommend you to upgrade to vB6 if you have a vB6 license. If not, you can fix it in vB5 by editing the userlink template in the Style Manager.

Find and eplace 2 instances of this code below:

{vb:raw displayname_safe}

with:

<span itemprop="name">{vb:raw displayname_safe}</span>

[glennrocksvb]

You can use Google Rich Text Result tool and enter a URL to find more details of the issue.

https://search.google.com/test/rich-results/result/r%2Fdiscussion-forum?id=2wDovYKSl4Hw2ATJ7lMtLg

The tool says it is missing the field 'name' for the 'Comment' type.

<div class="userinfo b-userinfo b-post__hide-when-deleted"
    itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    ...
    <a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
        class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></a>
​

In the above HTML code from the link you posted, it has:

itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"

but it's missing the corresponding field called 'name' of that Person object in:

<a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
    class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></a>
​

This issue seems to be happening in vB5 only and seems to be fixed in vB6. To fix this issue, the username part should have itemprop="name" like this:

<a href="https://www.ienajah.com/vb/member/1-hamoooodi"
    class="" data-vbnamecard="1"><span itemprop="name"><font color="#FF1515">HaMooooDi</font></span></a>
​

I recommend you to upgrade to vB6 if you have a vB6 license. If not, you can fix it in vB5 by editing the userlink template in the Style Manager.

Find and eplace 2 instances of this code below:

{vb:raw displayname_safe}

with:

<span itemprop="name">{vb:raw displayname_safe}</span>

[HaMooooDi]

thanks very much glennrocksvb

this solved the issue

there is another 3 warning see attached screen shot is there any modification can solve this

[glennrocksvb]

What is the URL? Please send the link to the Google Rich Text result.

[HaMooooDi]

he URL? Please send the link to the Google Rich Text result.

the same link these are warnings

https://www.ienajah.com/vb/node/106777

[glennrocksvb]

You have to click the retest button to let Google re-crawl the page and get the latest results. When I did that, I don't see any errors or warnings.

[glennrocksvb]

If you are referring to the warnings, those are just warnings and they are optional and you are not required to fix them.

[HaMooooDi]

Yes im refering to the warnings, as you said these are optional, thanks for your reply

[glennrocksvb]

If you click the Validate Fix button in Google Search Console, you should see the errors gone after Google is done re-crawling and re-testing the page.

[HaMooooDi]

you click the Validate Fix button in Google Search Console, you should see the errors gone after Google is done re-crawling and re-testing the page.

did that and every thing is going well now, waitting for google to re-crawling the pages and validate the fix

However one more question is their any way to speed the indexing of pages in google, i have around 90 K links showing errors and i requested re-crawling after fixing the errors but it is too slow

[glennrocksvb]

It's not instant. It may take days, weeks or months. That's up to Google.

[quattro123]

Hi Glenn, this issue has also VB 6.0.3. I could fix it with your help here!

But I am also getting "Missing field "text"" now. Can you help me here?

[glennrocksvb]

quattro123, please provide the link to the Google Rich Text result so that I can see the HTML tags where the error is pointing to.

Use this Google Rich Results Text tool and then enter the URL on your forum with the "Missing field text" error.

https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

[quattro123]

Hi Glenn, see for example this link:

https://www.bolidenforum.de/forum/seat/seat-leon/13688-sportinformationen-vom-cupra-beim-leon-freischalten-vcds

[glennrocksvb]

quattro123, I investigated the issue on the provided link using Google's Rich results Text tool and found out that the issue is caused by post #3 having no text and just image.

https://www.bolidenforum.de/forum/seat/seat-leon/13688-sportinformationen-vom-cupra-beim-leon-freischalten-vcds?p=13691#post13691

The required field "text" (denoted by itemprop="text" attribute) is actually present in the HTML but it only contains <img> tag and no text content in it. Please see excerpt of the HTML code for reference. Other parts removed for brevity.

<div class="js-post__content-text restore h-wordwrap" itemprop="text">
    <img itemprop="image" src="filedata/fetch?id=13692&amp;d=1528134547" class="bbcode-attachment thumbnail js-lightbox bbcode-attachment--lightbox" />
</div>

Notice itemprop="text" attribute in the <div> tag. It doesn't have any text content in it. It only has <img> tag with itemprop="image". If it had a text content in it, then the issue would not occur.

It seems you are allowing a post without text and just image. Did you set the Minimum Characters Per Post setting to 0?

[quattro123]

Hi Glenn, many thanks for your help, that's the issue! Changed this setting now!