John Mueller says don't use Schema as its not working yet but I get markup conflicts using Google Mark-up
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I watched recently John Mueller's Google Webmaster Hangout [DEC 5th].
In hit he mentions to a member not to use Schema.org as it's not working quite yet but to use Google's own mark-up tool 'Structured Data Markup Helper'. Fine this I have done and one of the tags I've used is 'AUTHOR'. However if you use Google's Structured Data Testing Tool in GWMT you get an error saying the following Error: Page contains property "author" which is not part of the schema. Yet this is the tag generated by their own tool.
Has anyone experienced this before? and if so what action did you take to rectify it and make it work. As it stands I'm considering just removing this tag altogether.
Thanks
David
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Just curious...and excuse my ignorance... is the Structure Data Markup Helper the same thing as the Data Highlighter ?
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Yeah I've done that too, I have left in authorship in some of my content since it does not hurt and if it ever comes back in some form well I guess its there.
Cheers
David
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If you read in the Q+A below that post Barry Schwartz asks whether we should remove the authorship code, and John Mueller replies that leaving it won't cause problems but yes, if you want to remove unnecessary code you can do that too.
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Thanks Linda,
Yup aware of the Google author drop, my gut feeling was just to remove it, which I'll do.
Cheers
David
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Google discontinued authorship back in August; apparently their tool hasn't caught up.
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