How to solve the Warning: Missing required field
"updated" ' and 'Warning: Missing required
hCard "author" in blogger
I have successfully implemented
Google+ Authorship on this website last week. My photo finally showed on SERPs
not until this morning. So, i checked Google Structured Data
Testing Tool and
it turns out that the tool is unable to extract information Google+ needed from
my webpage and it showed the following error/warnings:-
(1) Warning: Missing required
field “updated”.
(2) Warning: Missing required hCard “author”.
(1)
Warning: Missing required field “updated”.
for
this error follow this steps
step 1:-
find
below code in your blogger template
<span
class='meta_date '><data:post.timestamp/></span>
step 2:-
Replace
upon code with below code
<span
class='meta_date date updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>
(2)
Warning: Missing required hCard “author”
step
1:-
I removed hfeed and hentry from my temple. To do this go to template section
of blogger.com of your blog. Click on edit HTML. THIS IS EXTREMLY IMPORTANT: DOWNLOAD AND SAVE
A COPY OF YOUR TEMPLATE. If any thing goes wrong we will need this to fix things up.
Now search for hfeed in the template. You will get it two
times. It will bsomething like this just remove hfeed. You will now have
something like .
Next search for hentry You will get and . Remove hentry from both so that you get and.
step 2:-
Next search for hentry You will get and . Remove hentry from both so that you get and.
step 2:-
Now save
the template
Now check in the Rich Snippets Testing Tool. The error will be gone and so will be the hfeed –
hentry data. I have done so with my blog and now my articles featuring in
Google Search results shows up my thumbnail and link to my profile
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