I currently have the code below (from a blogger template) which seems to randomize the label on each post that pops out on my blog. How do I enforce that I only want to show 1 of these 4 labels only: san francisco, los angeles, chicago, new york. Each blog has one of these labels.
<div class='postags'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'/>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
</div>
if you want to show only one label you can use limit, but you can't specify which one that appears
<div class='postags'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels limit 1' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
</div>
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On Google Search Console, I'm getting the error missing best and worst rating. But when I tested the link on testing tool, I am getting:
Failed to normalize the rating value.
Your rating value was out of the default range, you must provide best and worst values.
The code is given below:
<h3>Reviews</h3>
<div class="average-rating" itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<p class="rating-title">Average Rating</p>
<div class="rating-box">
<div class="average-value" itemprop="ratingValue">0/5</div>
<div class="review-amount" itemprop="ratingCount">0 rating</div>
</div>
When I change in rating value to
<div class="average-value" itemprop="ratingValue">0/5</div>
or to this
<div class="average-value" itemprop="ratingValue">0/-454545</div>
it gives a warning:
0 rating (The value provided for ratingCount must be an integer.)
How can I solve this?
The min/max attributes are plain HTML attributes, they don’t affect the Microdata (and they can, by the way, not be used on div elements).
In Schema.org, the worst/best rating can be specified with worstRating and bestRating. If you don’t provide these properties, "0" and "5" are assumed.
If you fix the other errors (ratingCount would have to be "0", not "0 rating"; and it might be better to use "0" instead of "0/5" as ratingValue), you could omit worstRating/bestRating. But it’s typically better to be explicit, so you could add:
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0" />
<meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5" />
or:
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0" />
<span itemprop="ratingValue">0</span>/<span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>
This event is a local farm market where the client will be making weekly appearances at a venue which shifts bi-annually. Because the recurrence of the event is irregular (some weeks the start time may be different and the number of days between events varies between 7 and 5), there is plenty of justification to list them individually. However, a human reader will not like the aesthetics of 20+ listings all having the same description.
You don’t have to duplicate the description, you can use the itemref attribute:
<p itemprop="description" id="farm-market">…<!-- description for all events --></p>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event" itemref="farm-market">
<time itemprop="startDate">2015-01-20</time>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event" itemref="farm-market">
<time itemprop="startDate">2015-02-04</time>
</div>
If you don’t want to show any content from the single events (i.e., not even the date), then yes, you should use meta elements in Microdata:
<p itemprop="description" id="farm-market">…<!-- description for all events --></p>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event" itemref="farm-market">
<meta itemprop="startDate" content="2015-01-20">
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event" itemref="farm-market">
<meta itemprop="startDate" content="2015-02-04">
</div>
There’s nothing wrong about using meta.
It’s what gets used in some examples from the Microdata (W3C Working Group Note) specification, and for this purpose Microdata defines that it’s valid to use meta elements in the body.
I'm struggling to correctly add microdata to events on my page. The Google Structured Data Testing tool can read the data but it isn't displaying it correctly. I'm getting confused.
I am trying to tag it for a sports league that has a single event on one night that consists of three games all taking place at the same location.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent"><!--microdata week 1 event-->
<meta itemprop="name" content="Week 1 Lacrosse Games">
<meta itemprop="location" content="Street, Town, NY">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-3"> <!--column-->
<h3>Week 1<br><span itemprop="startDate" content="2014-06-27T18:00">Friday, June 27</span></h3>
<br>
<div itemprop="subEvent" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/subEvent">
<h4><span itemprop="name">Game 1</span> - 6:00 PM</h4>
<p><span itemprop="performer">Team 1 vs.Team 2</span></p>
</div>
<div itemprop="subEvent" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/subEvent">
<h4><span itemprop="name">Game 2</span> - 7:00 PM</h4>
<p><span itemprop="performer">Team 3 vs. Team 4</span></p>
</div>
<div itemprop="subEvent" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/subEvent">
<h4><span itemprop="name">Game 3</span> - 8:00 PM</h4>
<p><span itemprop="performer">Team 5 vs. Team 6</span></p>
</div>
</div><!--end column-->
</div><!--microdata week 1 event-->
I'm not sure what sort of problems you're having with the rich snippets displaying, but I did notice a couple of things that I'd recommend you change. Since all of these events are sporting events, I would probably recommend that you use the SportsEvent type for them all. You also need to specify all of the start times in ISO 8601 format. Additionally, the expected value of the "performer" property is either an Organization or Person, and SportsTeam is an extension of the Organizaton type. So I would recommend using that property twice within each event so that you could specify the two different teams that are playing, along with the SportsTeam type, like this:
<div itemprop="subEvent" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsEvent">
<h4><span itemprop="name">Game 1</span> - <meta itemprop="startDate" content="2014-06-27T18:00" />6:00 PM</h4>
<p><span itemprop="performer" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam">
<span itemprop="name">Team 1</span></span> vs</p>
<p><span itemprop="performer" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SportsTeam">
<span itemprop="name">Team 2</span></span></p>
</div>
I hope that helps.
Because I was using subevents, Google required that I have the microdata URL called out for each event. They have a rule that says if you have multiple events on the same page, you need to have a URL for each one.
Since I used the same page for all of them, I gave each subevent a unique ID and I linked that ID in the address.
I'm trying to markup an article and confused as to how to use the about property (from CreativeWork).
http://schema.org/about
My guess is that it can be used like this...
<p itemprop="about">Short text about the article...</p>
But on schema.org it says that the expected type is Thing so I'm not sure what I should be inserting inside the itemprop="about" tag; I can't find any examples of the about property in use.
Can anyone help and provide an example?
When using Microdata, the syntax would look like:
<p itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing">
…
</p>
(Instead of Thing, you could use a more specific type.)
Now you can use properties for this Thing, for example giving it a name, sameAs to link to the corresponding Wikipedia page, and description for a short description:
<p itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing">
<span itemprop="description">A <span itemprop="name">Bee</span> is a flying insect.</span>
<link itemprop="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee" />
</p>
I'm working on a website about watches. Goal is to display brands, brand's collections, watches, news, reviews, videos, an so on.
I'm asking myself on which kind of schema to use on collections / watches... Watch is a product, but we don't sell watches. We only display informations about watches, their brands, the official descriptions, some reviews, etc...
Is a collection a "DataCatalog" and each watch a dataset ? It is a good idea to want to add itemtype on a collection ? Or only use "Product" type on final watches from collection ?
I think it's difficult to understand the good way to implement schema.org due to the types limitation. And you, What do you think about this kind of problem ?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion
If you want to describe watch as a product using schema.org/Product is a perfect catch. I'll explain.
As you may see from schema.org/Product class structure it doesn't contain any properties for describing selling or buying. It has review, brand and other product specific properties. For describing offer/offers it has special item - well, offers of type schema.org/Offer. This type instead is exactly about selling/buying smth with properties price, acceptedPaymentMethod, etc.
Consider example from schema.org/Product page:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="name">Kenmore White 17" Microwave</span>
<img src="kenmore-microwave-17in.jpg" alt='Kenmore 17" Microwave' />
<div itemprop="aggregateRating"
itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
Rated <span itemprop="ratingValue">3.5</span>/5
based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">11</span> customer reviews
</div>
<div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<span itemprop="price">$55.00</span>
<link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock" />In stock
</div>
Product description:
<span itemprop="description">0.7 cubic feet countertop microwave.
Has six preset cooking categories and convenience features like
Add-A-Minute and Child Lock.</span>
Customer reviews:
<div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
<span itemprop="name">Not a happy camper</span> -
by <span itemprop="author">Ellie</span>,
<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-04-01">April 1, 2011
<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "1">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">1</span>/
<span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
</div>
<span itemprop="description">The lamp burned out and now I have to replace
it. </span>
</div>
<div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
<span itemprop="name">Value purchase</span> -
by <span itemprop="author">Lucas</span>,
<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-03-25">March 25, 2011
<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "1"/>
<span itemprop="ratingValue">4</span>/
<span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
</div>
<span itemprop="description">Great microwave for the price. It is small and
fits in my apartment.</span>
</div>
...
</div>
As you can see all product specific properties inserted in Product entity.
For broader research you may check Google markup for products which of course influenced on schema.org way of handling things.
Relating Dataset and DataCatalog types - they are not intended for such use. Instead they provide way for describing, well, some datasets (e.g., dataset of New York weather). For further details about this types you may check:
W3C page about this proposal with examples
Post in schema.org blog which reveals more details about it