: Understanding Google webmaster hAtom errors A website I am working on is showing tons of errors in the google webmasters tools under the structured data section. Most of the errors are missing

@Alves908

I do SEO for an events company - and this happens in my own console for event mark-up. Even with numerous errors the rich snippets work just fine. This is despite documentation stating that we're missing 'mandatory' fields.

My recommendation is to ignore the Search Console.

Google are in the process of overhauling how they use scraped data. Their next iteration of this project is called "Rich Cards". They've also got a new validator in Beta. You could try that one to see if it gives less errors, or different errors. It's a work in progress so your results may vary week to week.

Currently, Rich Cards are only implemented for movies and recipes on Google.com. Everything else is using the old rich snippets structure and as I mentioned the official Google documentation for those is out of date. Support for rich snippets and other versions of their data representation is sketchy at best. I wouldn't lose sleep over it if you're following the Schema.org specs. Just be patient and hope that the Rich Cards department gets their act together.

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