Google search console breadcrumbs and index problems

@muslumguney

We checked and confirmed that you’re getting a breadcrumb schema error on the given page.

https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler

Could you please try adding the Breadcrumb title on that given page and see if the error resolve? Please check this help article for more info.

However, I am not using the Yoast plugin for breadcrumbs. This feature is available in the theme settings. The reason I’m asking for support here is because the error warning in Google Search Console is shown between <Yoast> and </Yoast>:

{“@type”:”ListItem”,”position”:2,”name”:””}]}]}</script>
<!– / Yoast SEO plugin. –>

So, the breadcrumbs feature is automatically present in the theme and we cannot do any manual intervention.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by drmg.

Hi,

We understand you aren’t using the Yoast SEO plugin for the breadcrumb output. Regardless if you enable the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs feature or disable it, it will still output the ‘breadcrumb’ schema in the Yoast SEO graph.

If you would like to modify or disable the breadcrumb schema output, we recommend that you check out the documentation here – https://developer.yoast.com/features/schema/api/#removing-graph-pieces

Hi,

I’ll look into the link you provided.

And, I want to ask 3 questions.

Why did this problem suddenly occur on a few but not all sitelinks?

Why does the number of problematic links that Search Console reports change daily (up to 6, at least 1, 4 today)?

Do I need to contact my theme provider for this issue?

Thank you for your support.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by drmg.

Hi @muslumguney

It really depends on which links Google decides to crawl and report this issue on.

We’re checking on https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler in Google’s Rich Results Tool here, and it looks like there aren’t any errors or warnings anymore, and the breadcrumb schema is eligible as a rich result. Were you able to add the breadcrumb title?

You can validate the fix in Google Search Console as it looks like this has been addressed already. This issue isn’t coming from your theme provider, but rather, it’s the schema output from the Yoast SEO plugin itself.

Hi, @mikes41720

I think there was a misunderstanding. Because I gave https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler/0/page/372/, not https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler/, as an example in my first post.

Today I have 4 links reported as problematic in Search Console:

https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/dunya/0/page/372/
https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler/0/page/372/
https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/engelli/0/page/2/
https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/dunya/

I tested these four links, first with https://validator.schema.org/ then with https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

with Validator.schema.org: no error, no warning
with rich-results: “Either “name” or “item.name” should be specified.” (for 3 links. https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/dunya/ is normal)

And, When I try to validate these 4 links with Google Search Console, it gives a “fix the problem” warning for these 3 links.

I didn’t do anything with the breadcrumb title, I couldn’t. Because my Yoast breadcrumb feature is turned off, this feature is available in the theme. Or maybe I don’t understand what you mean.

Hi @muslumguney

Apologies for the mix-up. Could you please clarify what the difference is between https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler/page/372/ and https://www.meslekhastaligi.net/kategori/sektorler/0/page/372/ (with the /0/) in the permalink structure?

Yes, you aren’t able to change the breadcrumb title for that category archive because the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs feature isn’t enabled yet.

We recommend that you temporarily enable the feature just so you can set the breadcrumb title (for the breadcrumb schema output) and then you can disable the Yoast SEO breadcrumbs afterward – https://yoast.com/help/implement-wordpress-seo-breadcrumbs/ & https://yoast.com/help/change-breadcrumb-title/

Hi @mikes41720

Don’t give it a thought.

I do not have such a permalink structure (with the /0/). This structure appeared along with this problem. As I said in my first message, links in this structure are also indexed in Google.

I activated Yoast breadcrumb feature, added the breadcrumb titles, deactivated it, I tried to validate these links with Google Search Console and this time it Console didn’t give any warning.

Now I am waiting for the result. I will inform you.

Thanks. Have a nice day. Regards.

Hi @mikes41720

Google Search Console validation was successful.

Thank you for your kind support.

Regards.

Hi,

We’re glad to hear that this has been addressed. We’ll be closing this forum thread to keep the overview.

Thanks!