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  • March 9, 2021 at 2:41 pm #1286740
    zimbo

    Received an email from Google as follows:

    Breadcrumbs issues detected on https://www.abc.com/
To the owner of https://www.abc.com/: 
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 2 Breadcrumbs issues: 
Top Errors
Errors can prevent your page or feature from appearing in Search results. The following errors were found on your site:
Either 'name' or 'item.name' should be specified 
Missing field 'id'

    Pages affected (and website address) are listed in private content.

    Search Console says both the errors appear on both those pages.

    I use Yoast but not their breadcrumbs.

    Web research indicates such errors are usually theme related – please can investigate / confirm (or otherwise advise how to fix this)?

    March 13, 2021 at 5:09 am #1287907
    Rikard

    Hey zimbo,

    Sorry for the late reply. Could you try updating the theme to the latest version (4.8.1) to see if that helps please? https://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/how-to-install-enfold-theme/#theme-update.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 25, 2021 at 5:31 pm #1290421
    zimbo

    Took a while… but updating to 4.8.1 does not fix the problem.

    Doing a Validate Fix in Search Console returns:

    Cannot continue validation process
Affected pages were found. Fix the issue and run validation again

    But the pages are different from my original post – Search Console now says the breadcrumb errors are on pages 872 and 385.

    March 30, 2021 at 5:03 am #1291196
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update, and sorry for the late reply. I checked the page in private, but I can’t really see any difference between that and the pages you linked to. Also, where exactly are the breadcrumbs?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 30, 2021 at 2:28 pm #1291364
    zimbo

    https://imgur.com/vcdEdZN
    https://imgur.com/SwNthzf
    https://imgur.com/u2KIEdG

    Please see screenshots from Search Console (SC) for the error as seen today.

    The breadcrumbs error that SC reported on my last post #1290421 for page 385 has now “gone away” and SC is only reporting page 872 as having a problem.

    So whatever is going on appears transient but SC is finding something ‘wrong’.

    If you search for similar problems online, certain themes or plugins acknowledge a problem but others don’t.

    Maybe this is just one of those SC annoyances like the ‘text too small’ and ‘content too wide’ errors that SC pumps out on a regular basis, which are “resolved” in SC by doing nothing other than starting a Validate Fix, whereupon the ‘error’ as reported by SC just goes away without changing anything on the page.

    But reporting a breadcrumbs error in code seems different somehow to an ‘interpretation’ of how a page displays on a mobile?

    April 2, 2021 at 5:50 am #1291956
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update, and for the screenshots. I’m not sure what to make of this to be honest with you, but if there was an actual problem, then all of the other pages should have errors on them on them as well, not only number 872 or 385. Could you keep checking this for a few days, to see if they disappear or not?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    April 2, 2021 at 2:15 pm #1292003
    zimbo

    Makes sense that if it was a system wide issue with the theme code that you’d expect all pages to be reported, but as stated that’s not the case and the pages giving errors change.

    To which point… today, page 872 is still reported as a problem but SC is now reporting that page 319 has the same 2 errors of ‘Missing field “id”‘ and ‘Either “name” or “item.name” should be specified’. Go figure… :-)

    I’ll keep an eye on it and advise.

    April 6, 2021 at 4:08 am #1292645
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. We’ll keep this thread open for you.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    April 6, 2021 at 3:50 pm #1292814
    zimbo

    April 6th – page 872 is no longer reported as being in error (and I didn’t do or change anything, I just logged in to SC to see the latest status), but page 319 still is ‘bad’ (error as above). Quite bizarre…

    I’ll keep checking for a few more days.

    I’m leaning towards this being some quirk of Search Console. I got an email from it this morning claiming a post created in February was crawled 2 days ago and found as “marked noindex” and on checking of course it was no such thing!

    April 8, 2021 at 4:29 am #1293163
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. I does sound like there’s some sort of problem with their indexing, or at least with the reporting of errors they are giving you.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    April 13, 2021 at 2:02 pm #1294119
    zimbo

    Still no change after another 5 days. Page 319 still reported as being ‘in error’ but trying to validate a fix continues to fail. No other pages have been flagged up.

    The SC history does show however that there were no breadcrumb errors found on April 10, but the error was back on April 11 and still there today.

    Shall we close this down as it appears there’s no cause or resolution?

    April 15, 2021 at 8:45 am #1294514
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. I’m not sure what to do about this problem to be honest with you, since it doesn’t seem to have any logical cause. We can keep the thread open for now, maybe someone in the community has a suggestion or solution.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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