Google up to date their documentation of discussion board structured information and Q&A structured information to make clear new authorship associated necessities for each sorts of structured information .
Within the case of the discussion board structured information, there’s a clarification to the InteractionCounter schema.org information sort and likewise a brand new really useful property for the creator sort, each of that are associated to authorship information.
The adjustments to the Q&A structured information is about including hyperlinks to the creator profiles for these asking the questions, answering the questions or commenting on the questions.
All of the adjustments have an effect on how Google interprets info associated to customers who’re posting feedback in a discussion board or in a Q&A format.
It’s moreover of curiosity as a result of it exhibits how Google is in pinpointing the authors of content material, this time throughout the contexts of a discussion board or a Q&A web page.
Search outcomes that characteristic consumer generated solutions from boards presently don’t characteristic creator names.
However Google is more and more doing extra with authorship alerts equivalent to displaying the names of authors of stories articles so it’s an open query whether or not displaying discussion board consumer names is one thing being thought-about or if Google will probably be doing one thing else with creator information behind the scenes.
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New Q&A Structured Information Authorship Necessities
Google has additionally up to date the Q&A (QAPage) structured information with necessities which can be tied to Creator alerts.
Q&A pages are pages which have a query and solutions on them, plus varied feedback that aren’t both questions or solutions.
The updates to the Q&A pages structured information require that publishers add hyperlinks that determine who the authors are.
Three Authorship Associated Modifications
- Authors of a query
The Query structured information sort is the query that begins the dialogue, the thread starter and this requirement is expounded to creator of the query. - Authors of a solution
This pertains to the creator within the Reply Schema.org structured information sort. This structured information sort has two properties, the suggestedAnswer and acceptedAnswer properties which themselves consult with advised solutions and an accepted reply, two sorts of solutions. - Authors of a remark
The Remark sort is an elective structured information that can be utilized to explain clarifications made by the particular person asking the query or discussions that aren’t essentially solutions, like responders who’re asking for clarification.
The brand new necessities are related for all three sorts of authors, query, reply and remark.
Creator of a Query
"creator.url URL A hyperlink to an online web page that uniquely identifies the creator of the query, most probably a profile web page of the Q&A web site. We advocate marking up that web page utilizing profile web page structured information."
Creator of the Reply
"creator.url URL A hyperlink to an online web page that uniquely identifies the creator of the reply, most probably a profile web page of the Q&A web site. We advocate marking up that web page utilizing profile web page structured information."
Creator of the Remark
"creator.url URL A hyperlink to an online web page that uniquely identifies the creator of the remark, most probably a profile web page of the Q&A web site. We advocate marking up that web page utilizing profile web page structured information."
InteractionCounter Structured Information Kind
A Schema.org structured information sort is the primary a part of a given part of structured information code. The Property is only a description of that structured information Kind.
In Schema.org jargon, a Property is an attribute of the Kind.
The InteractionCounter Schema.org structured information sort tells Google what number of instances an creator interplay has occurred.
That is essential as a result of InteractionCounter structured information has required structured information properties. Required signifies that utilizing the properties is obligatory for eligibility to be proven in Google Views and different search outcomes that characteristic wealthy outcomes.
Google’s earlier discussion board documentation for the InteractionCounter “sort” was obscure and solely supplied definitions of two “properties” related to that sort. It didn’t supply an examples of the context of utilizing that information Kind and the 2 related Properties.
Google clarified this part in order that it’s extra apparent why the InteractionCounter sort is essential and helpful to make use of in documenting varied creator interactions.
Extra Particulars About interactionType
Here’s what Google modified within the discussion board structured information documentation.
The steering beforehand said:
"Required properties interactionType Motion See the place the place that is used for an inventory of legitimate Motion subtypes for this property."
Beneath is what the brand new steering exhibits, with the modified textual content highlighted with italics:
"Required properties
interactionType Subtype of Motion
For an inventory of legitimate Motion subtypes for this property, test the property that is utilizing InteractionCounter (for instance, interactionStatistic)."
Creator Added To Required Properties
Creator.URL Property
One other essential change to the Discussion board structured information steering is the addition of the creator.url Property of the Remark structured information Kind.
This transformation can be essential as a result of it’s a required property that impacts eligibility for the related forum-related wealthy leads to Google search.
That is the brand new steering that was added:
"creator.url URL
A hyperlink to an online web page that uniquely identifies the creator of the put up, most probably a profile web page of the discussion board. We advocate marking up that web page utilizing profile web page structured information."
Learn Google’s newly up to date steering on discussion board structured information:
Dialogue discussion board (DiscussionForumPosting) structured information
Learn Google’s newly up to date steering about Q&A structured information:
Q&A (QAPage) structured information
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