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

[NeshteR054]

Originally Posted by m7sen

any help please for vb3.8 ?

Find your theme => navbar_link
replace

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

[Kane@airrifle]

So Google has depreacted data-vocabulary.org and some of us are getting warnings from Google. To that end; any Schema.org microdata experts care pick out problems with this code before I implement same?

In navbar_link

PHP Code:

<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>

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
 "@context": "http://schema.org",
 "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
 "itemListElement":
    [
    {
   "@type": "ListItem",
   "position": "{vb:raw breadcounter}",
   "item":
    {
     "url": "https://www.yourforumurl.com/{vb:raw nav_url}",
     "name": "{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} | {vb:raw nav_title}"
    }
    }
    ]
}
</script> 


As you can see I am leaving the default VB code in there as the styling is fine for me and Google prefers json for this application anyway.

*Edit: Added this plugin https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=323652 to take care of the static counter.

Hook Location: navbits
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

$breadcounter = $counter;
vB_Template::preRegister('navbar_link', array('breadcounter' => $breadcounter)); 


Then add {vb:raw breadcounter} into the navbar_link template.

[scottkoz20]

only question I have is how is the position being updated if you have 1 static'd in?

[scottkoz20]

testing to this URL from the google search console --> https://www.sportscardforum.com/thre...t-Fat-Pack-Box

Got the following on a live test

6 items detected: Some are invalid
Invalid items are not eligible for Google Search's rich results. Learn more

the last element is throwing the following

Unnamed item
2 errors
type
BreadcrumbList
itemListElement
Missing field "position"
Either "name" or "item.name" should be specified
type
ListItem
item
id
https://www.sportscardforum.com/
type
Thing
title
Sports Card Forum

[final kaoss]

try this

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=323652

[scottkoz20]

thanks gents!

[final kaoss]

This still needs some work on it. Breadcrumbs show a error in google webmaster tools.

It complains about

Error Missing field "position"

Inspection of an example url shows.

[Kane@airrifle]

Getting zero errors with https://vbulletin.org/forum/showpost...8&postcount=92

[final kaoss]

Here's what I was talking about. Detected it today with the fix implemented yesterday.

[Kane@airrifle]

I have noticed it can take about 3 days for the fix validation to come through. Do a live url test and it should show zero errors.