Recent Google update late September 2019 have got so many
websites and blogs into breadcrumbs
on website issues.
One of the popular issues is the Invalid URL in field
“id”, there are so many other issues like missing field id, breadcrumbsList
error etc.
Most blogs running on BlogSpot platform didn’t get hit by
this, whereas most websites and blogs running on other platforms got hit.
Were you hit by the breadcrumbs in website error?
If your answer is in affirmative, so is mine, I got hit
too.
What led me to write this is that one of my blogs had this
issue, and as I research to find a way to solve this, it happens that no one
has written a post or guide on how to go about this. I believe this is because the
error of “breadcrumbs in website” is a new one, even though Google has been advocating
for rich text result on SERPs before now, this recent update brought it to bare
that on Google console, the error will be indicated.
My blog is powered by WordPress, with Yoast SEO plugin I was
able to enable breadcrumbs in my website. Yet, I was hit by the breadcrumbs error
of Invalid URL in field “id”.
How I solved this breadcrumbs in website error
After some days of searching the internet including the Google
Community and WordPress
forum, I was still confused on how to get this issue resolved, then I remembered
plugin, yes! Plugin.
I did a few researches, then settled for Schema and structured
data for WP plugin. I’m not going to go deep on all the functions of this
plugin but you can find it from their website. The only function I
was interested in is the breadcrumbs in website error fixer #smiles.
If you’re using Yoast SEO plugin, disable
the breadcrumbs in Yoast before you continue. That’s what I did in mine, even
though it may work for you even if you don’t disable the Yoast breadcrumbs.
See: How To Write SEO Article
Steps in Solving breadcrumbs
in website error for WordPress
- Login to your WordPress admin dashboard, hover to plugin and click on “add new”. Type “schema” in the search box and the plugin shows up as shown below. Then install and activate.
Viola! You’re good to go… But wait, you’ll have to resubmit
all your URLs with that error on google console.
So, head over to Google console, go to the error page, click
on ‘revalidate’. It takes many days (from my experience) for this process to be
through.
As you can see from the image below, after 4 days the
validation process is still in progress but looks good. Though testing with
Live URL shows that the issue has been fixed.
See Also: 8 tips that will help you rank fast on Google first page
If you’re experiencing any breadcrumbs in website issue in a
non-WordPress website, you can drop the details on the comment and the solution
will be provided.
That’s it, don’t forget to share with your friends.
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