Wordpress-seo: WooCommerce Product Schema appears under Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs in Google Structured Data Tool

[Pcosta88]

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WooCommerce Product Schema appears under Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs.

Please describe what you expected to happen and why.

Only one Breadcrumb data would appear and WooCommerce Product Schema would appear on own line in Google Structured Data tool NOT combined with the Yoast SEO Breadcrumb schema.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1.Add Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs to your site

2.Enable them in the SEO-Search Appearance-Breadcrumbs section. See that they appear

3.Create a WooCommerce Product

4.Run it through the structured data tool

5. See two Breadcrumb schema are identified.

6. The top set of Breadcrumb schema is from Yoast. The Yoast SEO Breadcrumb schema is highlighted in the source code

7. The bottom Breadcrumb schema is from WooCommerce. The WooCommerce breadcrumb schema is highlighted in the source code

8.See that the WooCommerce Product Schema is _not_ highlighted under the WooCommerce Breadcrumbs

9.However, see that the WooCommerce Product Schema IS highlighted under the Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs

10.Disable Yoast SEO Premium

11.See WooCommerce Breadcrumbs and WooCommerce Product appear on their own individual lines

12.See WooCommerce Breadcrumbs highlight breadcrumb schema

13.See WooCommerce Product Highlight product schema

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Technical info

• WordPress version: 4.9.7
• Yoast SEO version: 7.8
• Relevant plugins in case of a bug: 3.4.3
• Tested with theme: StoreFront (with Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs included in it)

NOTE:
Does not matter if WooCommerce SEO is enabled and the Yoast SEO WooCommerce breacrumbs are enabled. Two Breadcrumb schemas are outputted in the tool

_i. Yoast SEO WooCommerce breacrumbs are enabled_

_ii.Two Breadcrumbs_

[Pcosta88]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 402420 when this conversation has been closed.

[rmarcano]

Possibly related:https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/10342

[Pcosta88]

Downgrading to v6.3.1 appears to resolve the issue.

[jsmusiker]

Why are there no Yoast employees addressing this? This is a extremely serious issue for eCommerce Sites. I can’t believe this is being ignored.

[rmarcano]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 430026 when this conversation has been closed.

[laurasacco]

Please, inform the customer of conversation #435316 when this conversation has been closed.

[rmarcano]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 435239 when this conversation has been closed.

[benvaassen]

This issue is causing users to lose their product snippets on search results.

[mariusghitulescu]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 435756 when this conversation has been closed.

[jono-alderson]

I'm aware of this issue, and working on a solution. I'm specifying a large update to the way we output schema, which should resolve this. Watch this space.

[Pcosta88]

Please inform the customer of conversation # 442217 when this conversation has been closed.

[jono-alderson]

In the short-term, we should append the #product to the end of the product @id parameter.

[JeremieBALDY]

I have the same issue with schema generated by Site Reviews plugin which appears inside the BreadcrumbList instead of Product

[pryley]

I have the same issue with schema generated by Site Reviews plugin which appears inside the BreadcrumbList instead of Product

Please see: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/schema-appears-under-breadcrumblist-in-google-structured-data-tool-2/#post-10880708

[hagsonz]

any idea when it will be fixed, or some workaround at least?

[MAJA1970]

Workaround
I'am using a workaround since the problem stil exists for months now, I wrote it a few years ago. It is not the nicest piece of code but is working for me.

Download:
json-ld-woocommerce.txt
You have to change the organization name, it is hard coded. Change it to your own organization name and for the brand the same thing or make comments of it (Lines 126 and 131).

Rename the file to json-ld-woocommerce.php .

Copy the file to your theme or better child theme folder.

Call the code in your header.php of your theme by including it as shown here:

To make it easy download this file and copy paste this in your header as shown above.

include-JSON.txt

Check in Google:
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#
Put in a link to your product page and you will see the product microdata.

I'm not giving support, use it at your own risk.

Merry Christmas and happy new year 2019

[GTO-1]

I am a Premium YOAST user since years and I'm shocked how long this bug is present and does harm Google search results for so many of us. PLEASE YOAST.....

[jono-alderson]

Lots of moving parts here, so consolidating for simplicity.

• In JSON-LD markup, any entity can have an ID property (an arbitrary string). That ID uniquely identifies that entity, in the context of the page it's on.
• If multiple entities on a page share an ID, then search engines / etc may confuse and conflate those entities. In this case, the product and the breadcrumbs share the same ID, and Google is awkwardly trying to merge them.
• There's a special case with breadcrumbs, however, where the IDs _must_ be the URL of the page. So, no other entity on a page should ever use the URL as its ID.
• So, the Product needs a different, unique ID.
• We should make in WooCommerce's code.
• For the sake of neatness, we recommend that an ID be structured as an 'extension' of the page the entity is on. E.g., in this case, the ID of the product could/should be https://www.example.com/page/#product, where the URL is the page in question.

Making this change will remove the ID collision, and resolve the conflicts. Nothing else should change/break.

A slight nuance

• If WooCommerce is referencing the _current_ ID anywhere (e.g., an Organization node may have a 'makesOffer' property which references the product ID), then the referenced IDs will also need to be updated to the new format.
• I don't _think_ that this is currently the case anywhere, but we should check.

[jono-alderson]

Opened over at WooCommerce: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/22440

[moorscode]

The main problem in this issue has been resolved by the fix in Yoast SEO: WooCommerce (https://github.com/Yoast/wpseo-woocommerce/pull/294)

This will disable the WooCommerce breadcrumbs when the option is selected in the plugin.

To be able to provide the most optimal schema.org implementation for Products, the WooCommerce JSON+LD output needs to change, to make sure the identifier for a product is not the URL it is on.

This is being discussed in the above-mentioned issue.

If you do not own Yoast SEO: WooCommerce, we recommend to disable the Breadcrumbs in WooCommerce and use the ones output by Yoast SEO.

Closing this in favor of: https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/12053

Support: Please determine if the problem for the customers that have been added to this issue has been fixed or if they need to be notified when closing #12053

[moorscode]

The above-mentioned fix in WooCommerce has been applied and released in 3.5.5 - see https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/22554