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Tuesday, January 21, 2020, Google announces the end of support for data-vocabulary from April 6, 2020. Starting today, Search Console will issue warnings for pages using the data-vocabulary.org schema so that you can prepare for the sunset in time.
This will allow you to easily identify pages using that markup and replace the data-vocabulary.org markup with schema.org.
Why is it important to solve this problem?
Because these warnings can affect your website performance on Search and lose organic traffic.
So how to fix data-vocabulary.org schema deprecated issues?
1. Test your page using Google structured data testing tool
Use the Google structured data testing tool to find the pages that are affected by this issue. If you get the error below, it means you have to replace the data vocabulary to schema.org.
2. Replace the data-vocabulary.org in Your page
How to replace the data vocabulary to schema.org?
For example, here is how you would change the data vocabulary to schema.org
Old Data-vocabulary.org markup
New Schema.org markup
Look for the code below in your theme.
<span itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
For example, in my Prestashop theme, I found the code in breadcrumb.tpl file.
The problem was from BreadcrumbList.
I replaced the code following the schema.org instructions for BreadcrumbList
Example Without Markup
<ol>
<li>
<a href="...">Dresses</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="...">Real Dresses</a>
</li>
</ol>
Example with microdata
<ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="...">
<span itemprop="name">Dresses</span></a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="1" />
</li>
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="...">
<span itemprop="name">Real Dresses</span></a>
<meta itemprop="position" content="2" />
</li>
</ol>
3. Test again the page using Google structured data testing tool
If the errors have disappeared then you can go to the final step, namely to fix the errors in your Google Search Console.
4.Fix issues in Google Search Console
Click on “Validate Fix” from your website Search Console to request Google to recrawl your website and fix the issues.
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