Most of the bloggers when they want to claim Google Authorship for their websites will face mainly two errors, Warning: Missing required field "updated". and Warning: Missing required hCard "author". Which takes much more effect to solve this problem if we don't know the correct solution. Well today i'm going to discuss the solution for the first problem Warning: Missing required field "updated".
As google's certain blogger settings are often changing we have to change our template settings accordingly.
To solve this problem you have to Edit Your Blogger Template. Click Here To Learn How To Edit Your Blogger Template.
There are two methods which can solve this problem.
First Method:
1. Go to Blogger DashBoard --› Select your Blog --› Click on Template --› Edit HTML2. Now Press Ctrl+F and find for the words "hfeed" and "hentry".
3. Now replace the words with "h-feed" and "h-entry" respectively.
4. Now save the template from above top.
5. Now check your Authorship markup warning using this Structured Data Testing Tool.
This method should solve your errors effectively. In case if it doesn't work, follow the second method.
Second Method:
1. Go to Blogger DashBoard --› Select your Blog --› Click on Template --› Edit HTML2. Now Press Ctrl+F and find for the words 'timestamp-link' and 'published', like the below code
<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
3. Now carefully change the above highlighted word published to 'updated published', which should look like
<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='updated published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
4. Now save your template and test again your Authorship markup warning using this Structured Data Testing Tool.
Note: If the above code doesn't work, please try this
In second method, in th 3rd step we have changed 'published' to 'updated published' but we didn't do anything with 'timestamp-link'. Now we have to change 'timestamp-link' also if the above code doesn't work.
So from the 3rd step of second method, remove 'timestamp-link' from the code and replace it with 'updated'. By this the code should look like below
<a class='updated' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='updated published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
Save the code and test for Authorship markup warning using this Structured Data Testing Tool.
thx mate!! it works!
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DeleteThanks first way worked for me and its very easy than the second one,.,
ReplyDeleteCan you please share the reason why this problem is left by blogger, i just want to know the technical reason behind this
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Glad this helped you, the problem is with the templates and blogger officials has already informed about this. Do subscribe for more :)
Deleteok,, thank you so much for sharing the details,, got it :) , subscribed :)
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DeleteThank you very much boss... First method work with me xD
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DeleteI followed the directions and it didn't work, so I went in and put it back to hfeed and hentry without the dash, now my main page comes up with no posts on it, just the header and sidebar where as it use to come up with the last post I did. How can I fix this?
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Thanks and please help
Can I know whats the exact problem is?
Deletethanks it works 2nd one
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DeleteThank you Muji... it works! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Muhammad :) Keep visiting and don't forget to subscribe for more awesome articles :)
DeleteI've made the changes. When I checked the testing tools, the errors were not there but when I checked for these errors in Webmaster tools (under structured data), they are still there. Do I need to give google some time before Google can crawl my website again and mark these errors as fixed?
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No, it has to change instantly.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, it worked! :)
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DeleteHi Muji,
ReplyDeleteThe first method fixed the error. Thanks a lot..!
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DeleteSame. The first method worked. Thank you so much! :)
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DeleteThank you Muji... First Method it works!
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DeleteMy blog successfully on the second method, thank you very much
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ReplyDeleteI have tried the 1st method and it works: no more error in Structured Data Testing Tools. But...
I have the widget "Share This" in my blog and it completely stops working. Disappeared! And when I restore the old xml it come back, working again. But the error in Structured Data Testing Tools come back again.
I have tried the second method too, but it didnt work.
Any idea?
Thanks!
May I know the name of your website please?
DeleteThanks for this. I was having the same issues and tried the second solution first but that didn't work for me so I did the first option of changing hfeed and hentry and it worked.
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DeleteDear Admin Muji,
ReplyDeleteAttempting all the 3 attempts had not worked for me, I think I have a problem with rich snippets, I have inserted jump break after 3 lines of post which shows with errors in structured data. It has 28 errors on for post, each Errors which state Missing: author, Missing: updated.
When I check the particular error it shows the below result.
Please Help me to resolve the Issue....
Thanks in advance
hatom
itemtype:
http://microformats.org/profile/hatom
hentry
itemtype:
http://microformats.org/profile/hentry
entry-title:
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entry-content:
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Hai khan,
DeleteTry this method once may be it will help you, http://www.bforblogger.com/2014/08/solution-for-if-this-markup-is-about-a-person.html
replacing hfeed and hentry removes the extracted data from webmaster tool, doesn't this makes any negative impact on SEO
ReplyDeleteIt removes the missing author and updated error , but hides the whole structured data from WM tool.
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