January 25, 2020

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How To Fix Property Image_url Not Recognized By Google Error For Blogger

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 Updated: Jan 2020

Find out how to fix the property image_url is not recognized by Google for an object of type BlogPosting.

This is another very common structured date markup problem encountered by Blogger users.

Some years back, this issue is highlighted in red color as:

"Page contains property "image_url" which is not part of the schema"

 Now, if you check with Google Structured Data Testing Tool, it says:

"The property image_url is not recognized by Google for an object of type BlogPosting"

It means the same thing.

There are two parts to solve this property image_url is not recognized by Google error.

how to fix property image_url not recognized by Google

This is how you do it:

PART ONE: Remove _URL

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Select "Theme".

3. Click "Edit HTML".

4. Look for this code in the template:

<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image_url'/>

2. Delete away _url.

3. Now it should look like this:

<meta expr:content='data:post.firstImageUrl' itemprop='image'/>

Note: There are two sets of this code. You must delete both.

4. Do not click "Save theme" as yet.

PART TWO: Make Changes To data:post.timestamp

1.  Look for this code in the template:

 <data:post.timestamp/>

2. Replace this code with this:

 <span class='updated'><data:post.timestamp/></span>

3. Now click the orange color "Save theme" button.

4. That's all.

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