Google has up to date its discussion forum structured data assist documentation to make clear that SocialMediaPosting markup can also be supported. Google did say that SocialMediaPosting ought to be used for websites which might be extra of a “generic social media platform,” versus a dialogue discussion board.
Google wrote, that they’re now confirmed “that SocialMediaPosting markup is also supported and permit only image or video in feedback with out textual content.”
Google added that they made this variation to “extra precisely mirror how the info ingestion for these options work and to take away noise in validation experiences.”
The updates to the doc embrace these additions:
- In case your website is extra like a generic social media platform, you should utilize SocialMediaPosting, which is the mum or dad sort of DiscussionForumPosting, with the identical necessities.
- A social media platform the place customers can put up and reply to feedback or media
- Whereas Google helps SocialMediaPosting markup, the necessities are the identical and most web sites (particularly boards) will discover DiscussionForumPosting extra applicable. So on this part, we use DiscussionForumPosting within the descriptions.
- The title of the put up. If there is not a separate title, do not duplicate or truncate the textual content right into a headline. This isn’t advisable for a SocialMediaPosting.
Google additionally added this to the feedback part of the required properties:
Discussion board dialogue at X.
