I checked my website's Rich Snippets in the Google Rich Snippets Tool, and it had an error:
The review has no reviewed item specified.
How do I fix it?
The code is:
<div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5</span> stars - based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">21</span> reviews
</div>
The error message is pretty self explanatory with one of the problems that you have, but that's not the only problem with the code you presented. The other problem is that you've used itemprop without an item that this is the property of.
AggregateRating requires an item that is being rated. You can't have an AggregateRating without specifying what it applies to. There's two ways to do this (do not do both):
Use a containing item and specify the AggregateRating as a property. You (kind of) suggested this is what you are trying by using itemprop without a containing item. If you wish to use this, you need to wrap your itemprop in a suitable item. Suitable items are: Product, Brand, Offer, Event, Organization, Place, Service, CreativeWork. These items specify an aggregateRating property which can contain an AggregateRating.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5</span> stars - based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">21</span> reviews
</div>
<!-- other Product properties -->
</div>
Use the itemReviewed property of AggregateRating, specifying the Thing that the rating is regarding. Don't forget to remove the itemprop from the code in your question if you use this.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<span itemprop="ratingValue">5</span> stars - based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">21</span> reviews
<div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<!-- Product properties -->
</div>
</div>
You have to use LocalBusiness schema for correct this one error.
I got the same error message for my page. Then I've put LocalBusiness Schema code after putting everything working fine.
For code sample, you can go on Schema page: http://schema.org/LocalBusiness
Or you can check my website which I have the correct one.
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I have received a message a couple of days ago that Google Search Engine has a problem identifying my ObjectType 'ItemReviewed'.
I am a collaborator on a moviesite and implement schema.org to my reviews.
<div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
<span itemprop="reviewBody">
<span itemprop="itemreviewed">Title of the movie</span>
<IMG>itemprop="image"</IMG>
<img border="0" src="https://example.com/wp-content/img/30star.png" alt="rating" />
<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating"><meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "0"/>Rating: <span itemprop="ratingValue">3</span> / <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span></div>
Review by <span itemprop="author">Selina</span> op <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2020-02-13">13 februari 2020<p></div>
Can anybody help me. It worked fine for years up until a few days ago.
NOTE: I know google has recently changed the markup for businesses so the rating is not something self-serving, but this a movieblog and the ratings are rating the movie not the website. Should I use another markup?
We are talking about genuine, independent, and unpaid editorial reviews
Google recently started to report on reviews.
In your case you have marked up itemprop="review" outside the scope of an item. Which is invalid unless you did not share all the code?
You've also marked up itemreviewed. It should be itemReviewed with capital R. You should not place the review in another item and use itemReviewed at the same time. They are different ways to do the same thing.
Your itemReviewed is just some text. This is interpreted as it being a 'Thing'. Google only supports reviewing a very restricted list of types, where a basic Thing is not included:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/review-snippet
Movie is on the list, which I suspect is what you are reviewing. So you need to mark up your Movie and either place the review inside that with the property review, or place the Movie inside your review with the property itemReveiwed.
does this code looks 'ok' to you or should I add something else, cause there are a lot properties and I would like to have a minimum amount of them, cause I will have to make changes to up to 1000 movie reviews.
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CriticReview">
<div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Movie">
<span itemprop="name">movie title</span>
<span itemprop="director">Alfred Hitchcock</span>
<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2020-02-19">19 februari 2020</meta>
<img itemprop="image" src="https://example.com/wp-content/img/img_2004_blu-ray.2.jpg"/>
</div>
<span itemprop="author">name of the author of the review</span>
<div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "0"/>
Rating: <span itemprop="ratingValue">1</span> / <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>
</div>
Second question, should I use meta tags or span tags, or doesn't it matter?
My code has markup for AggregateRating and it is embedded into a Product page that does not have its own Product markup. So I used the 'itemReviewed' property of my AggregateRating markup to specify the Product level data like so..
<div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
<div itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<meta itemprop="name" content="Haley Lace Bralette">
</div>
</div>
The google structured data testing tool gives this error "One of offers or review or aggregateRating should be provided", but that error is being given for an AggregateRating element. Why is it asking for aggregateRating when it is already inside an AggregateRating element?
Say I have place or business ( itemType = LocalBusiness ) and want to list its similar items (businesses) in page.
I want something like this:
<div itemscope itemType="https://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
<div itemprop="name">Biz Name</div>
<meta itemprop="image" content="image url" />
<div itemprop="description">Description</div>
.
.
.
</div>
<!--What should be the itemType of #other-similar-businesses to tell search engines these are Similar Items-->
<div id="other-similar-businesses" itemscope itemType="?" itemprop="?">
<div itemscope itemType="https://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
<div itemprop="name">Biz Name</div>
<meta itemprop="image" content="image url"/>
<div itemprop="description">Description</div>
.
.
.
</div>
<div itemscope itemType="https://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
<div itemprop="name">Biz Name</div>
<meta itemprop="image" content="image url"/>
<div itemprop="description">Description</div>
.
.
.
</div>
</div>
There is a sameAs property. According to schema.org :
URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
But I don't know if it is suitable for this case.
What kind of type (and property if available) should I use?
Schema.org doesn’t provide a general property that conveys that a thing A is similar to a thing B. (The closest property is probably relatedLink, but this can only be used on WebPage items.)
Probably because that would be a rather useless relation, as things could be similar in many different ways. Instead, Schema.org tends to define more specific relations, e.g., containedInPlace/containsPlace if the places are located in another place (e.g., in the same city).
But I think your problem can be solved in a different way. If I understand your case correctly, you have a page about a single (e.g.) Restaurant item, and on that page you also link to pages that are about (somewhow related/similar) Restaurant items. Consumers should understand that one is the restaurant the page is about, and the other ones have their own pages.
mainEntity/mainEntityOfPage for the primary restaurant
Then you could make use of mainEntity (if you have a WebPage item) or the inverse mainEntityOfPage (see details). This allows you to convey which one of the many Restaurant items is the primary one, i.e., the one the page is about:
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ItemPage">
<main>
<article itemprop="mainEntity" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Restaurant">
<!-- primary restaurant -->
</article>
</main>
<aside>
<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Restaurant">
<!-- secondary restaurant -->
</article>
<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Restaurant">
<!-- secondary restaurant -->
</article>
</aside>
</body>
This doesn’t change that the secondary restaurants are top-level items, but this should not be a problem. There’s nothing bad about having multiple top-level items; it often can’t be prevented, because there aren’t suitable properties for all cases.
If you absolutely don’t want this, the hasPart property could be used for all Restaurant items. I don’t like this, because I don’t consider the secondary restaurants to be really part of the page, but strictly speaking, they are (i.e., in the form of teasers).
relatedLink for links to secondary restaurants
In case you don’t need structured data about the secondary restaurants on that page, you could of course simply link to them, by using the already mentioned relatedLink property:
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ItemPage">
<main>
<article itemprop="mainEntity" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Restaurant">
<!-- primary restaurant -->
</article>
</main>
<aside>
<ul>
<li><a itemprop="relatedLink" href="/r2">Restaurant 2</a></li>
<li><a itemprop="relatedLink" href="/r3">Restaurant 3</a></li>
</ul>
</aside>
</body>
If my company do it product (website, design, app), what should I apply Microdata to my HTML, if HTML structure look like below:
<div>
<h1>Company name</h1>
<p>Below is our portfolio</p>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/???">
<h2>1. Website name</h2>
<p>Website info here...</p>
</div>
</div>
It depends on what this content is exactly about.
If it’s something your Organization offers (so the portfolio item is a placeholder for what your business offers), you could use:
makesOffer → Offer
If it’s something your Organization owns (so the portfolio item is something your business wants to show), you could use:
owns → Product
From the perspective of the CreativeWork, you could link to your Organization using the properties author/creator, contributor, copyrightHolder, provider, or publisher.
1- You can use, Like Unor said, the Organization, but there is some specific types of organizations.
You can use LocalBusiness and in your case, I will use another specific type of LocalBusiness wich calls https://schema.org/ProfessionalService. (provider)
An exemple of use :
<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ProfessionalService" style="display:none;">
<span itemprop="name">company name</span>
<span itemprop="description" style="display:none;">Description </span>
<img itemprop="logo" src="http://logo-url" alt="">
<span itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
<span itemprop="streetAddress">Address</span>,
<span itemprop="addressLocality">Locality</span>
<span itemprop="addressCountry" >Canada</span>
<span itemprop="addressRegion">State_or_province</span>
<span itemprop="postalCode">Postal_code</span>
</span>
<span itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GeoCoordinates">
<meta itemprop="latitude" content="45.5354467" />
<meta itemprop="longitude" content="-73.505216" />
</span>
</span>
I advise you to use the GeoCoordinates, because Google should promote your web site in your local area.
You can hide this information for users by an style="display:none".
2- For your portfolio, you have another schema : CreativeWork
3- For the use of offer : you have to indicate the price that could be show directly in search results. But in your case, I don't think you want it :).
Microdata can change the appearance of your page directly in search results. For more information, Google Developers
I have a website where people can compare driving schools. I've added alle the details (name, description, location, pricerange, etc.) I know about these schools to their pages on my website, using the schema.org markups.
Since a few weeks, people can also buy (read: book) their first driving lesson offered by the schools on my website, directly on my website. I was searching for a way to add this to the schema.org markup at my pages, but I don't really know what to use in my case.
I think of the two following possibilties. Can you tell me which one I should use? Or that you may think of a better solution?
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
<div itemprop="name">...</div>
<div itemprop="description">...</div>
<div itemprop="priceRange">...</div>
<div itemprop="makesOffer" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<div itemprop="name">...</div>
<div itemprop="price">...</div>
<div itemprop="priceCurrency">...</div>
</div>
</div>
Or
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
<div itemprop="name">...</div>
<div itemprop="description">...</div>
<div itemprop="priceRange">...</div>
<div itemprop="owns" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<div itemprop="name">...</div>
<div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<div itemprop="price">...</div>
<div itemprop="priceCurrency">...</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
At last, I was looking for a better schema type for driving schools, but I don't think they have specified driving schools. Do you think it is better to use ProfessionalService instead of LocalBusiness?
I think both of your examples are possible.
If you don’t have any specific requirements from consumers you expect to make use of your markup, I’d go with the first example: LocalBusiness → makesOffer → Offer.
It seems that you don’t really need the Product item, as you are only using the name property, which could be used on the Offer instead.