Suggestion from Ryan Levering (Software Engineer at Google)

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/markup-improvements-for-google.213088/

1. Include more than the OP with "http://schema.org/Comment" nodes through a "http://schema.org/comment" property. We're trying to normalize the forum markup space to use DiscussionForumPosting for the OP and attach Comment typed markup for the replies in a flat list (or threaded if you are a threaded forum). Without that, it makes it harder to segment the rest of the page appropriately in our index.

2. Co-typing WebPage and DiscussionForumPosting like you do is going to confuse our ingestion a bit. If you squint it's not that inaccurate, but it would be clearer to either have WebPage (separate node) -> mainEntity -> DiscussionForumPosting or DiscussionForumPosting -> mainEntityOfPage -> WebPage (separate node). A co-typed self-cycle needs to be detected specially often.

3. Include profile URLs in your author -> Person nodes. Raw names are not nearly as useful for disambiguation.

Edited September 7Sep 7 by Mat

By the way, automatic link embedding from XenForo does not work.

I spoke with Ryan around that time too, and he gave us a few tips for better ingestion which we implemented at the time, but he was overall happy with our mark-up.

On 9/7/2024 at 1:23 PM, Mat said:

By the way, automatic link embedding from XenForo does not work.

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Implemented - Markup improvements for Google

Hi, my name is Ryan Levering and I currently handle structured data ingestion at Google (this guy). I've been doing some fairly spontaneous spot checks (not based on any specific problem) of some...