"spammy structred data" search console message

[Meier]

Hey gang,

I want to first say thank you to anybody that tries to help me with this. I'm not quite sure where to start.

So first I get the message in search console for my locksmith website that it looks like I have some spammy structured data.  I remembered that for one landing page I did have the stars short code on it and it was displaying the stars. Well, I went and looked and they were indeed no longer showing. So I simply deleted the shortcode, but I wanted to do a thorough check of my landing pages, one by one.

Now I have project supremacy on my wordpress site, which I stand by, it's a solid product and I have been able to make my per page schema look really good, zero errors. So I went through each page that had errors on it and fixed them and sent it all back into google for 'reconsideration'.

BUT today (sorry this is getting long)

I look in my search console and I see that ALL of my blog posts have errors on them. Something wrong with the hentry.

As I test one of the posts in structured data tester tool I see 4 errors and 4 warnings. I don't have the author displaying which is not true and some other things. But I have never ever tried to schema any of my blog posts and there is ZERO site wide schema, I already checked. Where is this bad schema living, and could that be the reason for the spammy stuff?

Thank you crew!!!

mwDd8

[RobertvanHeerde]

Hi Meier,

Maybe you use a plugin for schema markup? I see the following Author schema on your blogpost:

on row 492.

I would start by removing this line of code and check the page again with the structured data testing tool: https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=en#

I'm pretty shure that this is the reason for the 'penalty'. Had a similar experience ;).

Let me know the outcome!

Kind regards,

Robert

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Meier,

Did Robert van Heerde's answer help you resolve your issue? If so, please mark it as a "Good Answer." If you are still having issues, though, we'd love to get an update about that, too, so we can try to get you resolve this.

Christy