Webmaster Tools says that Structured Data is missing (author and updated)
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Hi,
Google Webmaster Tools tells me, that every blog category and blog post is missing:
- 'updated'
- 'author'
I find this data under 'Structured Data' => The datatype is 'hentry'. Markup is microformats.org.
Is this a problem for SEO? How can I fix this?
Best, Robin
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Hi Robin
Are you all set with this? Martijn has the right idea. You can add these as attributes to your markup to make the errors go away and get the implementation perfect. It's probably not hurting SEO though.
You can find the documentation for hentry here: http://microformats.org/wiki/hentry
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Hi Robin,
No it's probably not an issue for SEO. I'm doing an estimated guess that you're on WordPress as hentry usually provides some of these warnings there. What you should do to fix it is adding a couple of extra classes to the specific elements for these cases.
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