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Friday, 15 February 2013

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Warning: Missing required field "name (fn)" in Webmaster Tools - Solved
Errors in Rich Snippet tools affect your Blog's SEO. Hence any error can reject your blog for Adsense. To solve those errors we have written this post.In this post, we have solved one of the problem in Rich Snippet tools which says Warning: Missing required field "name (fn)".

Why This Error Occurs:

When google bot tries to crawl your page he tries to recognize the author of that post. In case if he fails to recognize the author that will be because of any of this two reasons:
  1. You have not verified your authorship with Google+.
  2. Your blog's template has a missing code which is responsible for this error. 

Solution For Warning: Missing required field "name (fn)" :

  • Log in to your Blogger Account.
  • Go to Templates >> Edit HTML.
  • Find for <data:post.author/> tag.
  • Replace <data:post.author/> with the below code.
<span class='vcard author'><span class='fn'> <data:post.author/> </span> </span>

  • Now, click on Save The Template.
After saving your blog template there will be no such error coming in Rich Snippet Tool.

5 comments:

  1. thanks for this awesome article. i also use this in my blog at All Updated Tricks. this code very well work in my blogger blog.

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  3. wau amazing.... (h)
    Thanks, it's work at http:wondhoez.blogspot.com

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  4. http://urduwebfonts.blogspot.com
    this is my blog url.I am facing an error in google webmaster tools.
    "A value for the name field is required."
    I applied your tutorial but didn't work plz help me to make it correct thank you.

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