While we use Blogger template then we
are not aware about internal error of the template. Because most of the newbie
use readymade custom Blogger template, this may contain several internal error.
But if you have little knowledge about designing and SEO then you can easily
find out the error.
But beside of this there is easiest way
to find error of your Blogger template that is Structured Data Markup Helper.
But many of us don’t give any emphasize on error free template use. Even many
professional Blog designer uses Blogger template with different error. However
error can be arise 2 ways-
- Error by template designer (Default template error)
- Error created by Blogger (Using third party widget that makes error on template code)
However we can easily find out the error
by using Google’s Structured Data Markup
Helper from webmaster tools. But we should know first what is Structured Data Markup?
Structured data markup is a universally shared language format. This
helps search engines to understand and return the best results for users who
are searching for relevant data. And you must denote the template coding area
by Schema markup, which is the foremost type of shared markup vocabulary that
Google is using to deliver results. And Structured
Data Markup Helper can be found in Google webmaster tools which are also
known as Google search console. There you can easily check your template.
How to check template for finding error?
For checking error please go through
the below steps-
Step 1
Go to https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
link
Step 2 And
click on Fetch URL link. And write
your Blog URL after that click on red color FETCH & VALIDATE button.
Step 3 Instantly
validate structured data result will display on the right result window.
If everything is ok then you will see
in result All good with Green sign.
But if your template contains some error then it will display with red alert,
e.g 10 Errors.
How to solve Image URL, postId and blogId error by Structured Data?
If you see any error like below after testing
your Blog in Google’s Structured Data
Markup Helper, then we can solve the issue easily.
Here image_url error
means Google can’t understand the error, and similarly postId and blogId error
means Google robot don’t recognize your Post ID and Blog ID. So this is really
bad for Blog SEO. However to solve the issue Just follow the below steps-
Step 1 Log in to your Blogger
account and Go to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2 Now click on ->
Template -> Edit HTML-> Proceed
Step 3 Locate the below Meta
content by pressing Ctrl+F (Windows) or CMD+F (Mac)
<meta expr:content='data:post.thumbnailUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>
<meta expr:content='data:post.id' itemprop='postId'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.blogId' itemprop='blogId'/>
You may find the above Meta
content twice. So delete all.
Step 4 And now press Save template button.
Step 5
Now again go to https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/
link and check your Blog URL. You will see all error has gone.
Because this kinds of error arise due
to bad template coding or adding additional code to your existing template
coding.
Benefits of removing error
There are several benefits for
removing error. Because when you publish content on your Blog then it automatically
update your site data like site structure, Publish date, content, images, author
etc. And Google must understand the updated data about your content publish
date structure to index, crawl and present in search engine with rich snippet.
In addition this error can impact on
your organic traffic, because due to error search engine won’t understand about
your Blog data and they won’t crawl your content. As a result you will lose big
chunk of traffic from search engine.
I hope your Blogger template is now
error free. But to take it effect on your Blogger template make a new post thus
Google crawl immediately and can understand that you have removed the error
from your Blogger template.
Nice piece. It succeeded in removing those errors. However, I still need to remove other errors like date published, author, headline and other errors. Thanks
Hi Chales,
Nice to hear that you have removed all errors. And to remove Publisher, author, headline and other error please go through my SEO related thread. You will find all tutorial there.
http://www.bloggerspice.com/search/label/SEO?&max-results=6
Thanks for being with us. :sp
Hi llham El Mhadder,
What error showing in your template? If you want to fix the problem of image then you can follow the tutorial from below- :go
http://www.bloggerspice.com/2016/01/fix-image-AMP-error-from-your-blogger-template.html
Removing these items is not solution
Hi Rajendra Kumar,
This tutorial was written when Schema.org markup introduced. For removing Image error completely you have to follow another tutorial.
http://www.bloggerspice.com/2016/01/fix-image-AMP-error-from-your-blogger-template.html
But before taking any step please take your Blogger template's backup.
Thank you. :)