Re: publisher field for Blogposts and websites

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<https://schema.pythonanywhere.com/>


On 06/09/2016 05:54 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:
> On 7 June 2016 at 07:36, Bäck, Gerald <gerald@baeck.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently doing my first steps with JSON-LD and try it on my private
>> blog. As far as I understand Blogposts do require a publisher field, which
>> can only be an organisation. But I think it should be possible for persons
>> to be publishers too, but I also would like to question, that blogposts or
>> even Websites do need a publisher field at all.
>>
>> I tested my blog with Google's Structured Data Testing Tool. Interestingly
>> enough the tool did not complain about the publisher being a Person, but
>> that the publisher entitiy had no logo, which on the other hand is not
>> allowed as a field for a person.
>>
>> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2Fblog%2F2016%2F05%2F30%2FWahlmanipulationen%2F
>>
>> I also tested the root of my blog, which is defined as website, also with
>> myself as a publisher person. This time the tool was fine with it.
>>
>> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2F
> Don't worry too much about complaints from that tool. Many of them are
> its way of saying "your data might not be ideal for [some specific
> search/product feature]" (e.g. showing logos for organizations in some
> contexts).
>
> Dan
>
>
>> thx, Gerald
>>
>>
>>
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