Fix Missing:Author Error In Blogger Template

Hello Folks today in this article we are going to teach you how to fix Missin:Author error in blogger template.Are you getting the Missing required hCard "author" or  hEntry / microformat error in Google's structure data testing tool?Learn how to fix missing author error from blogger template.This error can be check through Google Webmaster Tools -> Search Appearance -> Structured Data- > hentry (markup: microformats.org). You can also test your blogger template by visiting https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool , and if you find an error the you must fix it.This error means that search engine is not able to understand the blog author.Author image often get display in google search engine and this feature is also called google rich snippet error.if google robots will not understand the any information regarding author,then google search engine will not display author information and also author image in google.

To fix this error just follow the steps mentioned below and make your template error free from missing:author error.

Installation steps:

Step 1. Open https://www.blogger.com and Sign in to your account

Step 2.  Now From Blogger Dashboard click on ->Template ->Edit HTML 

Step 3.  Now Find the following  script below from your Blogger template.

<span class='post-author vcard' >
                    <b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
                      <b:if cond='data:post.authorProfileUrl'>
                        <span class='fn'>
                          <a expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' rel='author' title='author profile'>
                            <data:post.author/>
                          </a>
                        </span>
                      <b:else/>
                        <span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>
                      </b:if>
                    </b:if>
                  </span>

Step 4. Now replace the above script from the below script.

<span class='post-author vcard'>
                <b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
                  <b:if cond='data:post.authorProfileUrl'>
                  <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
                      <meta expr:content='data:post.authorProfileUrl' itemprop='url'/>
                      <a class='g-profile' expr:href='data:post.authorProfileUrl' rel='author' title='author profile'>
                        <span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
                      </a>
                    </span>
                  <b:else/>
                    <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'>
                      <span itemprop='name'><data:post.author/></span>
                    </span>
                  </b:if>
                </b:if>
              </span> 

Step 5. Now Save your template..Done !

We have added special feature in the above script which we are using in our template.When a visitor will mouse over your name then the google plus author page(profile) will open.This feature will help to understand google robot about your google plus profile page.look below for example:

Now Visit https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ and you can see now all error vanished.

That's it Folks !
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