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

[SPEEDKILLZ]

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.

So should id use this code or the code from the op?

[insidegames]

Any idea for stars in serps with vbulletin?

[ramesh_umk3]

Originally Posted by SPEEDKILLZ

So should id use this code or the code from the op?

Google Updated so OP code will not work refer 40th post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=40

Originally Posted by insidegames

Any idea for stars in serps with vbulletin?

possible but it has some errors
Example link
Here

[dethfire]

I think for 3.8 it will be

<if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
	<span class="navbar" itemprop="title">&gt; <a href="$nav_url" itemprop="url">$nav_title</a></span></div>
<else />
	$nav_title
</if>

[furnival]

This works great with @Smirkley's code. Many thanks!

[fxdigi-cash]

I tried it on my vb4, but it didn't work even with the test tool by google. I guess we need a fix for this. Thanks

[stevieb]

does this work in vB 4.2?

[stevieb]

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.

Testing on our site - looks good so far - thanks.

For reference, the original code that belongs in -> Navbar_Link is as follows (in case anyone needs to revert back) - for vB4.2.2 pl.1

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
	<li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}">{vb:raw nav_title}</a></li>
<vb:else />
	<li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span>{vb:raw nav_title}</span></li>
</vb:if>

[insidegames]

Originally Posted by ramesh_umk3

Google Updated so OP code will not work refer 40th post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=40



possible but it has some errors
Example link
Here

do you have a code for this?

[ramesh_umk3]

its already provided in my previous comments any how below is the code

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<span 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>
</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>