I implemented Google’s Sitelinks Search Box to my site. It was working very well. But today I cheked again on Google Structured Data Testing Tool and something was wrong. Now I’m getting below error:
And my implementation is:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "https://www.saatler.com/",
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": "https://www.saatler.com/arama?ara={search_term_string}",
"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"
}
}
</script>
When I check the JSON on the JSON-LD playground everything is looking good. I didn’t change anything on my site. Is Google wrong about this issue? Or the Schema.org structure has changed? What should I do to fix these 2 problems?
I noticed that even the examples on the online documentation receive the same exact error you received. When I changed
"@context": "http://schema.org"
to
"@context": "http://schema.org/true"
the error disappeared. Hope this helps.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org/true",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "https://www.saatler.com/",
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": "https://www.saatler.com/arama?ara={search_term_string}",
"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"
}
}
</script>
Found the answer by reviewing the schema.org Potential Actions page.
Apparently, for whatever reason, Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool doesn’t like our short-hand version for textual representations of input and output.
When I switched to the verbose version I get the good checkmark for WebSite
(1), not http://www.example.com/Website
(1).
Textual representations of Input and Output
For convenience, we also support a textual short-hand for both of
these types that is formatted and named similarly to how they would
appear in their HTML equivalent. For example:
"<property>-input": {
"@type": "PropertyValueSpecification",
"valueRequired": true,
"valueMaxlength": 100,
"valueName": "q"
}
Can also be expressed as:
<property>-input: "required maxlength=100 name=q"
Here is our full code for anyone else trying to follow this:
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"name" : "Example Company",
"url": "http://www.example.com/",
"sameAs" : [ "https://www.facebook.com/pages/Example/###############",
"https://plus.google.com/b/#####################/#####################"],
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": "http://www.example.com/search/results/?q={q}",
"query-input": {
"@type": "PropertyValueSpecification",
"valueRequired": true,
"valueMaxlength": 100,
"valueName": "q"
}
}
}
</script>
It was a bug in the Google Structured Data Testing Tool.
It’s fixed now: the tool reports no more errors for your markup.