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Valid with warnings: The rich result is eligible to appear in Google Search as a rich result. Warning issues are either suggestions for missing or invalid ... SkiptomaincontentRichresultstatusreportsSeeyourJobpostings,Recipes,andmoreLearnwhichrichresultsGooglecould orcouldnotreadfromyoursite,and troubleshoot richresulterrors. RichresultreportsforyoursitearelistedunderEnhancements inthemenupane.Thereisaseparatereportforeachrichresulttype. Youwillseearichresultreportonlyif: Googlefindsrichresultsofthattypeinyourproperty,and Thetypeisa supportedrichresulttype listedbelow. Ifyouhaveimplementedasupported type andyoudon'tseethereportinyourproperty,see Missingrichresults.   OPENSEARCHCONSOLE   MonitoringRichResultsinSearchConsole-GoogleSearchConsoleTraining Supportedrichresultreports SearchConsoleprovidesreportsforthefollowingrichresulttypes: Breadcrumb Dataset EducationQ&A Event FAQ Factcheck Guidedrecipe How-to ImageLicense Jobposting LearningVideo Logo Product Q&Apage Recipe Reviewsnippet Sitelinkssearchbox SpecialAnnouncement Video Usingthereport OpentheappropriatereportfromthenavigationpanelinSearchConsole. YouwillseeareportonlyifSearchConsolehasdataforthatrichresulttypeonyoursite,andSearchConsoleimplementsareportforthattype. Thereportconsistsofasummarypageandadetailspage: The summarypage showsachartoferrors,warnings,andvaliditemsonyoursiteovertime,andatableshowingstatus+descriptioncategorycombinationsthatshowshowmanystructureddataitemscurrentlyfallineachcategory. Clickarowinthesummarypagetabletoseedetailsaboutitemsinthatcategory. Whattolookfor Ideallyyour currenterrorcountshouldbe0.Currenterror,warning,andvalidcountsareshownatthetopofthechartonallpagesinthereport. Ifyoufinderrors,handlethemasdescribedintheTroubleshooting sectionbelow. Ifyoufindwarnings,theydonotdisqualifyyourrichresults frombeingshowninGoogleSearchwithspecialfeatures,buttheycanprovideasomewhatreducedexperienceforyourusers.DebugwarningsasdescribedintheTroubleshootingsectionbelow.   Sharingthereport YoucanshareissuedetailsinthecoverageorenhancementreportsbyclickingtheSharebuttononthepage.Thislinkgrantsaccessonlytothecurrentissuedetailspage,plusanyvalidationhistorypagesforthisissue,toanyonewiththelink.Itdoesnotgrantaccesstootherpagesforyourresource,orenablethesharedusertoperformanyactionsonyourpropertyoraccount.Youcanrevokethelinkatanytimebydisablingsharingforthispage. Exportingreportdata Manyreportsprovideanexportbuttontoexportthereportdata.Bothchartandtabledataareexported. Valuesshownaseither~or-inthereport(notavailable/notanumber)willbe zerosinthedownloadeddata.   Troubleshooting Hereisabasic processforprioritizingandfixingrichresultissuesonyoursite: Onthesummarypageofarichresultreport,filteroutthewarningsandvaliditemsandfocusontheerrorsfirst. Fixerrorsaccordingtothenumberofaffectedpages: Ifthereisaspikeintheerrorchart,lookforacorrespondingspike intheerrorrowsinthetable. Fixtheissueonyoursite,testyourfix,andensurethatyourfixesareliveontheweb.SeeInspectingerrorstolearnaboutthedifferenttoolstoviewandtroubleshootyourstructureddataitems. ReturntotheissuedetailspageandclicktheValidateFixbuttontobeginthevalidationprocess.Thisprocesscantakeseveraldays,andyouwillreceiveemailnotificationsoftheprogress. Ifallinstancesofthatissuearefoundtobefixed(thatis,thefixisvalidated),thecountofpagesaffectedbythatissuewillbecome0andtheissuestatuswillbeupdated. Continuefixingerrors. Whenallerrorshavebeenfixed,removethefilterforwarnings, andconsiderfixingthewarnings.Mostwarningsareaboutmissingoptionalpropertiesinyourstructureddata.Havingmoreinformationinrichresultcanbemoreusefultoyoursitevisitors. Usefultroubleshootingresources: Structureddatadocumentation RichResultstest Inspectingerrors Youcanuseseveraldifferenttoolstoinspectyourstructureddataerrors: Intheerrordetailspage: ClickaURLinthetabletoseethestructureddatacode. ClicktheinspecticonnexttotheURLinthetabletoruntheURLInspectiontool,whichofferserrordetails,indexedandlivetestresults,andascreenshot. UsetheRichResultsTesttooltotestyourpage,ortoiterativelytest,modify,andretestyourcodedirectlyinthebrowser.EithersubmittheURLofthepagetotest,orcopyandpastecodeintothetool.   Troubleshooterrorspikes Themostcommonreasonforaspikeinerrorsisanerrorintroducedtoatemplateusedbymanypagesonyoursite. Determineifaspikecausedwasbyagroupofitemsmovingfromoneseveritytoanother: Ifyouseeaspike,lookforacorrespondingdropinanotherstate(warning orvalid). Ifyoufindacorrespondingdrop,confirmthatthespikeanddroparethesameURLs. Iftheitemsmovedfromonestatetoanother,determinewhatcauseditbydrillingintotheerrorspike. Troubleshootthespecificissuebydrillingdownintoanexampleitemandinspectingtheerrorsasdescribedpreviously. Troubleshootmissingrichresults/dropintotalrichresults  Herearesomereasonswhyarichresultmightnotappearinthereport: Notallrichresulttypesarecurrentlysupportedinthisreport.Seethelistofsupportedrichresulttypes. Onlyrichresultsfromindexedpagescanbeshown.Notallthepagesonyoursitemightbecrawledforvariousreasons; forverylargesites,youmightseeasignificantdifferencebetweenthenumberofpageswithstructureddataonyoursite,andthenumberofrichresultsinthisreport.Ifyouseeasharpdropinthenumberofrichresultsonyoursite,seeifyoucanfindacorrespondingdipinindexedpages. Googlehasn'tcrawledthepagesyet.ItcantakesometimeforGoogletocrawlneworupdatedpages.YoucanaskGoogletorecrawlyourURLs. Indexingrequestsarenotimmediate; itcantake uptoaweektofulfillanindexrequest. Googlecan'taccessthepage. UsetheURLInspectiontooltoseewhetherGooglecanaccessthepage. ThestructureddatamightbesoinvalidthatGoogledoesn'trecognizeitasarichresult.UsetheRichResultsTestTooltocheckyourpage(check theURLofthelivepageratherthanpastingyourstructureddatacode).Ifstructureddataisfoundbutitcouldnotbeparsedatall,itshouldappearintheUnparsablestructureddatareport.  Yourrichresultmightnotbesupportedforyourlocationyet.Checkthedocumentationtoseeifyourrichresulttypeissupportedforyourlocation. UsetheRichResultstestonyourpagetoseeifGooglecanaccessyourpageandseetherichresultcode,andtoconfirmthevalidityoftherichresultcode. Usethe URLInspectiontooltoseeifthepageisindexed,andifitisaccessiblebyGoogle.TesttheliveversionofthepageaswelltoconfirmthatGooglecanaccessit. Listofcommonstructureddataerrors Hereisalistofthemostcommonerrorsshowninthisreport: Error Description InvalidURLinproperty"propertyname" InvalidURLinthespecifiedproperty. Missingproperty"propertyname" Missingrequiredproperty. Invalidcalorieformatinproperty"propertyname" Invalidvalueforcalories property. Date/timenotinISO8601formatinproperty"propertyname" Invaliddatevalueforthespecifiedproperty.DateshouldbeinISO8601format. Missingvalueinproperty"propertyname" Emptyvalueforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidvalueinproperty"propertyname" Invalidvalueforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidstringlengthinproperty"propertyname" Stringvaluetoolongortooshortforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidobjecttypeforproperty"propertyname" Wrongstructureddataobjecttypeforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidvaluetypeforproperty"propertyname" Wrongvaluetypeforthespecifiedproperty. Unrecognizedproperty"propertyname" Youdefinedanunknownpropertyinyourstructureddata. Duplicateproperty"propertyname" Duplicatepropertydefinitionsinthesameobject. Either"property1"or"property2"shouldbespecified Youmustspecifyonlyoneofthesetwoproperties. Either"property1","property2",or"property3"shouldbespecified Youmustspecifyonlyoneofthesethreeproperties. Noglobalidentifierprovided(e.g.,gtin,mpn,isbn) Youmustprovideatleastoneofthefollowingglobalidentifierpropertiestouniquelyidentifyyourproduct: gtin8,gtin13,gtin14,mpn,orisbn Valueinproperty"propertyname"mustbepositive Theindicatedpropertyvaluemustbeapositivenumber. Invalidintegerinproperty"property" Invalidintegervalueforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidpriceformatinproperty"property" Invalidpriceformatforthespecifiedproperty. Invalidproductavailabilityvalueinproperty"propertyname" Invalidvalueforproductavailability. Youratedareview,ratherthananitem Youratedareviewinanaggregatedrating,ratherthantheitemitself. Couldn'tdeterminetheratingscale Youprovidedaratingscalethatwecouldnotunderstand. Ratingismissingrequiredbestand/orworstvalues Missingthebestand/orworstvaluesforarating. Ratingvalueisoutofrange Theratingvalueprovidedisoutofrange. Reviewhasmultipleaggregateratings TheReviewhasmultipleaggregateratings;youcanprovideonlyone. MultiplereviewswithoutaggregateRatingobject Youprovidedmultiplereviewswithoutanaggregaterating. Numberoutofrangeforproperty"propertyname" Numericproperty isoutoftheallowed(ordefined)range. SyntaxerrorinSitelinksSearchbox GenericsyntaxerrorinaSitelinksSearchboxdefinition. CustomqueryparameternotdefinedintargetURL (SitelinksSearchbox)Issuestringforundefinedqueryvalueinsitelinksurltemplate. MismatchedqueryparameternameintargetURL (SitelinksSearchbox)Thequeryvariablenameusedintarget isdifferentfromthevariablenameusedin query-input.Forexample,youmighthavedonesomethinglikethis: "target":"https://query.example.com/search?q={search_term_string}", "query-input":"requiredname=my_query" Thenameusedin'q'and'query-input'shouldbethesame: "target":"https://query.example.com/search?q={search_term_string}", "query-input":"requiredname=search_term_string" TargetURLdomainisoutsidethewebsiteURLdomain (SitelinksSearchbox)TheURLsin targetand url musthavethesamerootdomain. Hereareexamplesofmatchingandnon-matchingURLs: http://www.example.com andhttp://example.com--Match http://m.example.com andhttp://query.example.com-Match http://www.example.comand http://example.fr.co--Nomatch http://www.example.comand http://exaample.com--Nomatch InvalidtargetURL (SitelinksSearchbox)InvalidURLinthe targetproperty. Non-HTTPtargetURL (SitelinksSearchbox)InvalidURLinthe targetproperty:mustbeeitherhttporhttps. ErrorinSitelinksSearchboxdefinition (SitelinksSearchbox)ErrorinSitelinksSearchboxdefinition. Invalidenumvalueinproperty"propertyname" Propertyvaluedoesnotmatchanyoftheallowedenumeratedvalues. Unknownerror Anerroroccurredthatdoesn'tfallintoanyoftheothercategorieslistedhere. Invalidorunsupported@contextvalue Thevaluespecifiedforthe@contextattributeinJSON-LDmarkupismisspelled,unsupported,ordoesnotapplytothatelement.TheonlyvaluescurrentlysupportedbyGoogleare: http://schema.org http://schema.googleapis.com http://gs1.org/voc httpsandtrailing/markvariationsofthepreviousvalues GoogledoesnotsupportcustomremotelydeclaredJSON-LDcontexts,forexample:http://example.com/schemas/custom_schema   Summarypage Inthegraph, anitemisassignedthemostseverestatusthataffectsit: soanitemwithbothanerrorandawarningisassignedthestatus"Error".Anitemiscountedonlyonceinthegraph.See Anoteaboutthestatustotals. Inthetable,issuestatusisassignedtoaspecificitemproperty(nottotheentireitem),soastructureddataitemcanappearmultipletimesinthetable. Thefollowingstatusesapply: Error: Therichresult cannotappearinGoogleSearchasarich result.Itemsinerrorstatehaveatleastoneerror,andcanalsohave oneormorewarnings. Validwithwarnings: TherichresultiseligibletoappearinGoogleSearch asarichresult.Warningissuesareeithersuggestionsformissingorinvalidoptionalvalues,errorsinnon-criticalproperties,orwarningsaboutusageofdeprecatedproperties.Providingmoreoptionalpropertiesinyourstructureddatacanoftenenableabetterexperiencefortheuser. Valid:TherichresultiseligibletoappearinGoogleSearchasarichresult.Allrequiredandoptionaldataiscorrectlyprovided. Ifyouwanttoseeallissuesforasinglerichresult,seeInspectingerrors. Anoteaboutthestatustotals Thetotalvalueperstatusinthetablecanexceed thetotalvalueinthecorrespondingstatusforthegraph.Twoexampleswhythisisso: Asingleitemwith3differentwarnings willappear3timesinthetable(total=3),butcountasonly1item(total=1)inthewarningtabtotal. Anitemwithbothanerrorandawarning(twotablerows)willcountonlyas1erroritemintheerrortabtotal.(Anitemiscountedasthemostseverestatusitcontains.) Issuedetailspage Selectanissuerowinthesummarypagetabletoopenapageshowingdetailsfortheselected issue.Anissuecanaffectrichresultsondifferentpages,multiplerichresultsonasinglepage,orasinglerichresult multipletimes. Theissuedetailspagecontainsthefollowinginformation: State Validationstateofthisissue.  Firstdetected Thedatewhenthisissuewasfirstdetectedonyoursite.Note:Ifallissuesofthistypeareresolved,butanewinstanceofthisissueappearswithin90days,thedatewillbeoriginalfirstdetecteddate,notthedateofthenewinstance. Examples Alistofrichresultsaffectedbythisissue.Notethatit'spossiblethattheexampleslistmightomitrowsforvariousreasons,suchasissueinstancesthat happenedafterthelastcrawlofyoursite,orinstancesthataffectmorethan1,000items(thetableislimitedto1,000rows). Itemtype Thenamevalueintheitem'sstructureddata. Lastcrawled Thelasttimethepagecontainingthisissuewascrawled.   Toseemoreinformationaboutanissueonaspecificpage, select theissueintheexamplestable.  ClicktheinspecticonnexttotheURLinthetabletoruntheURLInspectiontool,whichofferserrordetails,indexedandlivetestresults,andascreenshot.   Aboutvalidation Afteryoufixallinstancesofaspecificissueonyoursite,youcanaskGoogletovalidateyourchanges.Ifallknowninstancesaregone,theissueismarkedasfixedinthestatustableanddroppedtothebottomofthetable.SearchConsoletracksthevalidationstateoftheissueasawhole,aswellasthestateofeachinstance oftheissue.Whenallinstancesoftheissuearegone,theissueisconsideredfixed.(Foractualstatesrecorded,seeIssuevalidationstateandInstancevalidationstate.) Moreaboutissuelifetime... Anissue'slifetimeextendsfromthefirsttimeanyinstance ofthatissuewas detectedonyour siteuntil90daysafterthelastinstancewasmarkedasgonefromyoursite.Ifninetydayspasswithoutanyrecurrences,theissueisremovedfromthereporthistory. Theissue'sfirstdetected dateisthefirsttimetheissuewasdetectedduringtheissue'slifetime,anddoesnotchange.Therefore: Ifallinstancesofanissuearefixed,butanewinstanceoftheissueoccurs15dayslater,theissueismarkedasopen,and"firstdetected"dateremainstheoriginaldate. Ifthesameissueoccurs91daysafterthelastinstancewasfixed,thepreviousissuewasclosed,andsothis isrecordedasanewissue,withthefirstdetected datesetto "today". Basicvalidationflow Hereisanoverviewofthevalidationprocessafteryouclick ValidateFix foranissue.Thisprocesscantakeseveraldays,andyouwillreceiveprogressnotificationsbyemail. WhenyouclickValidateFix, SearchConsoleimmediatelychecksafewpages. Ifthecurrentinstanceexistsinanyofthesepages,validationends,andthevalidationstateremainsunchanged. Ifthesamplepagesdonothavethecurrenterror,validationcontinueswithstate Started.Ifvalidationfindsotherunrelatedissues,theseissuesarecountedagainstthat otherissuetypeand validationcontinues. SearchConsoleworksthrough thelistofknownURLsaffectedbythisissue.OnlyURLswithknowninstancesofthisissuearequeuedforrecrawling,notthewholesite.SearchConsolekeepsarecordofallURLscheckedinthevalidationhistory,whichcanbereachedfromtheissuedetailspage. WhenaURLischecked: Iftheissueisnotfound,theinstancevalidationstatechangestoPassing.Ifthisisthefirstinstancecheckedaftervalidationhasstarted,theissuevalidationstatechangestoLookinggood. IftheURLisnolongerreachable,theinstancevalidationstatechanges to Other (whichisnotanerrorstate). Iftheinstanceisstillpresent,issuestatechangestoFailed andvalidationends.Ifthisisanewpagediscoveredbynormalcrawling,itisconsideredanotherinstanceofthisexistingissue. WhenallerrorandwarningURLshavebeencheckedandtheissuecountis0,theissuestatechangesto Passed.Important:Evenwhenthenumberofaffectedpagesdropsto0andissuestatechangestoPassed,theoriginalseveritylabelwillstillbeshown(ErrororWarning). Evenifyouneverclick"startvalidation" Googlecandetectfixedinstancesofanissue.IfGoogledetectsthatallinstancesofanissuehavebeenfixedduringitsregularcrawl,itwillchangetheissuestateto"N/A"onthereport. Whenisanissueconsidered"fixed"foraURLoritem? AnissueismarkedasfixedforaURLoritemwheneitherofthefollowingconditionsaremet: WhentheURLiscrawledandtheissueisnolongerfoundonthepage.ForanAMPtagerror,thiscanmeanthatyoueitherfixedthetagorthatthetaghasbeenremoved(ifthetagisnotrequired). Duringavalidationattempt,itwillbeconsideredas"passed." IfthepageisnotavailabletoGoogleforanyreason(pageremoved,markednoindex,requiresauthentication,andsoon),theissuewillbeconsideredasfixedforthatURL.Duringavalidationattempt,itiscountedinthe"other"validationstate. Revalidation Whenyouclick Revalidate forafailedvalidation,validationrestartsforallfailedinstances,plusanynewinstancesofthisissuediscoveredthroughnormalcrawling. Youshouldwaitforavalidationcycletocompletebeforerequestinganothercycle,evenifyouhavefixedsomeissuesduringthecurrentcycle. Instancesthathavepassedvalidation(markedPassed)orarenolongerreachable(markedOther)arenotcheckedagain,andareremovedfromthehistorywhenyouclickRevalidate. Validationhistory Youcanseetheprogressofavalidationrequestbyclickingthevalidationdetailslinkintheissuedetailspage. EntriesinthevalidationhistorypagearegroupedbyURLfortheAMPreport andIndexStatusreport.IntheMobileUsabilityandRichResult reports,itemsaregroupedbythecombinationofURL+structureddataitem(asdeterminedbytheitem'sNamevalue).Thevalidationstateapplies tothespecificissuethatyouareexamining.Youcanhaveoneissuelabeled"Passed" onapage,butotherissueslabeled"Failed","Pending,"or"Other". Issuevalidationstate Thefollowingvalidationstatesapplytoagivenissue: Notstarted: Thereareoneormorepageswithaninstanceofthisissue thatyouhaveneverbegunavalidationattemptfor.Nextsteps: Clickintotheissuetolearnthedetailsoftheerror.InspecttheindividualpagestoseeexamplesoftheerroronthelivepageusingtheAMPTest.(IftheAMPTestdoesnotshowtheerroronthepage,itisbecauseyoufixedtheerroronthelivepageafterGooglefoundtheerrorandgeneratedthisissuereport.) Click "Learnmore"onthedetailspagetoseethedetailsoftherulethatwasviolated. ClickanexampleURLrowinthetabletogetdetailsonthatspecificerror. FixyourpagesandthenclickValidatefix tohaveGooglerecrawlyourpages.Googlewillnotifyyouabouttheprogressofthevalidation.Validationtypicallyuptoabouttwoweeks,butinsomecasescantakemuchlonger,sopleasebepatient.  Started: Youhavebegunavalidationattempt andnoremaininginstancesoftheissuehavebeenfoundyet. Nextstep: Googlewillsendnotificationsasvalidationproceeds,tellingyouwhat todo,ifnecessary. Lookinggood: Youstartedavalidationattempt,andallissueinstancesthathavebeencheckedsofarhavebeenfixed. Nextstep: Nothingtodo,butGooglewillsendnotificationsasvalidationproceeds,tellingyouwhattodo. Passed: Allknowninstancesoftheissuearegone(ortheaffectedURLisnolongeravailable).Youmusthaveclicked"Validatefix"togettothisstate(ifinstancesdisappearedwithoutyourequestingvalidation,statewouldchangetoN/A).Nextstep: Nothingmoretodo. N/A: GooglefoundthattheissuewasfixedonallURLs,eventhoughyouneverstartedavalidationattempt. Nextstep:Nothingmoretodo. Failed: Acertainthresholdofpagesstillcontainthisissue,afteryouclicked"Validate."Nextsteps: Fixtheissueandrevalidate. Instancevalidationstate Aftervalidationhasbeenrequested,everyinstanceoftheissueisassignedoneofthefollowingvalidationstates: Pendingvalidation:Queuedforvalidation.ThelasttimeGooglelooked,thisissueinstanceexisted. Passed: [Notavailableinallreports]Googlecheckedforthe issueinstanceanditnolongerexists.Canreachthisstateonlyifyouexplicitlyclicked Validate forthisissueinstance. Failed:Googlecheckedfortheissueinstanceandit'sstillthere.Canreachthisstateonlyifyouexplicitlyclicked Validate forthisissueinstance. Other:[Notavailableinallreports]Googlecouldn'treachtheURLhostingtheinstance,or(forstructureddata)couldn'tfindtheitemonthepageanymore.Consideredequivalentto Passed. NotethatthesameURLcanhavedifferentstatesfordifferentissues;Forexample,ifasinglepagehasbothissueXandissueY,issueXcanbeinvalidationstatePassedandissueYonthesamepagecanbeinvalidationstatePending.   Knownissues ThefollowingareknownissuesinSearchConsole.Noneedtoreportthemtous,butwe'dloveyourfeedbackonanyotherfeaturesorissuesyouspot.UsetheFeedbackmechanismbuiltintothenavigationbar. Someissueshavelongnamesthatarenoteasytounderstand. 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