Board Optimization - [SEO] Add Microdata Breadcrumbs

Hello.
Before you find out what this mod does, you need to have some knowledge of Microdata.

Now its time to take advantage of this wonderful feature; and we will label our breadcrumbs to describe it's type to Google for better understanding and to presenting your site better in Google search result.

In order add microdata tags in our breadcrumb here is what we need to do:

(please take backup of your template before performing following steps)

Step 1:

Find and Replace everything in navbar_link template with the following code:

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></a></li>
</div>
<vb:else />
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></span></li>
</div>
</vb:if>

Step 2:

Hit Save button !!

And That's it you are done. Now you just have to wait until Google show your website in search result like this:


Also check following articles for better understanding:

http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic
http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic
http://support.google.com/webmasters...8472&ctx=topic


Thank You

[mobile4persian]

does it work on 4.2.1?

[smirkley]

Never tried it on 4.2.1, dont see why it wouldnt.

NOTE: I just noticed that if you are using Sections in CMS in the Suite, that the url isnt constructed properly.

I just used a vb:if/else statement and removed the bburl from vbcms entries.

[ramesh_umk3]

Originally Posted by mobile4persian

does it work on 4.2.1?

it will work on any 4.x.x

[mobile4persian]

i changed it about 3-4 days ago but it doesn't seem to work:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site...l=np&source=hp

[GamerPerfection]

You'll have to wait a lot longer than 4 days for it to update on google.

[humb]

I make this change, I hope the results...

[ramesh_umk3]

you can check your results instantly mate, just place thread url and hit preview
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

[jmorton]

just installed on 4.2.1 and it is working.
utilizing microdata will pull more traffic!

[gsmlover4u]

Originally Posted by smirkley

OK, yup,... I am an idiot. lol

1 - I decided I was smart and changed the http://data-vocabulary.org references to use my domain url. Wrong, dont do it, leave it as is, it works and is not just someone elses domain.

2 - a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" does not work as described, the microdata url only appends the actual page spidered url to the url also in the address bar.

IE: your threads and catagory links will look like this in microdata,...
/threads/thread....
/forum/forums....

Dead 404's, not good.

instead use this,... href="{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/{vb:raw nav_url}"


To make this mod work out of the box, use this code replacement which requires no editing to work on your forum no matter the url or sub directory location...

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<span itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw vboptions.bburl}/{vb:raw nav_url}" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></a></li>
</span>
<vb:else />
<span itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></span></li>
</span>
</vb:if>

This is tested on my site and Google microdata test site.
Includes any necessary changes needed through this thread.

i did as you said in post
but showing some error in http://validator.w3.org/
will you plz correct it

[SPEEDKILLZ]

gonna read later