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Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data documentation, adding several new supported properties to both markup types.<\/p>
The most notable addition is The new The property is listed as recommended, not required, for both the Google already uses similar IPTC source type values in its image metadata documentation to identify how images were created. The update extends that concept to text-based forum and Q&A content.<\/p> Google added The Q&A Page documentation includes a new formula: The Discussion Forum documentation expanded its The addition of The For sites that publish a mix of human and machine-generated content, the Google has not said how it will use the The update does not include changes to required properties, so existing forum and Q&A structured data implementations remain valid. Sites that want to adopt the new properties can add them incrementally.<\/p> <\/div> News,Technical SEO#Google #Adds #amp #Bot #Labels #Forum #QampA #Structured #Data #sejournal #MattGSouthern1774385675<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data documentation, adding several new supported properties to both markup types. The most notable addition is digitalSourceType, a property that lets forum and Q&A sites indicate when content was created by a trained AI model or another automated system. Content Source Labeling Comes To Forum Markup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[740,87,19190,450,392,75,10557,90,19191,80,6607],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessibility","tag-adds","tag-amp","tag-bot","tag-data","tag-forum","tag-google","tag-labels","tag-mattgsouthern","tag-qampa","tag-sejournal","tag-structured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}digitalSourceType<\/code>, a property that lets forum and Q&A sites indicate when content was created by a trained AI model or another automated system.<\/p> Content Source Labeling Comes To Forum Markup<\/h2>
digitalSourceType<\/code> property uses IPTC digital source enumeration values to indicate how content was created. Google supports two values:<\/p>
TrainedAlgorithmicMediaDigitalSource<\/code> for content created by a trained model, such as an LLM.<\/li> AlgorithmicMediaDigitalSource<\/code> for content created by a simpler algorithmic process, such as an automatic reply bot.<\/li> <\/ul> DiscussionForumPosting<\/code> and Comment<\/code> types in the Discussion Forum docs, and for Question<\/code>, Answer<\/code>, and Comment<\/code> types in the Q&A Page docs.<\/p> New Comment Count Property<\/h2>
commentCount<\/code> as a recommended property across both documentation pages. It lets sites declare the total number of comments on a post or answer, even when not all comments appear in the markup.<\/p> answerCount<\/code> + commentCount<\/code> should equal the total number of replies of any type. This gives Google a clearer picture of thread activity on pages where comments are paginated or truncated.<\/p> Expanded Shared Content Support<\/h2>
sharedContent<\/code> property. Previously, sharedContent<\/code> accepted a generic CreativeWork<\/code> type. The updated docs now explicitly list four supported subtypes:<\/p>
WebPage<\/code> for shared links.<\/li> ImageObject<\/code> for posts where an image is the primary content.<\/li> VideoObject<\/code> for posts where a video is the primary content.<\/li> DiscussionForumPosting<\/code> or Comment<\/code> for quoted or reposted content from other threads.<\/li> <\/ul> DiscussionForumPosting<\/code> and Comment<\/code> as accepted types is new. Google\u2019s updated documentation includes a code example showing how to mark up a referenced comment with its URL, author, date, and text.<\/p> image<\/code> property description was also updated across both docs with a note about link preview images. Google now recommends placing link preview images inside the sharedContent<\/code> field\u2019s attached WebPage<\/code> rather than in the post\u2019s image<\/code> field.<\/p> Why This Matters<\/h2>
digitalSourceType<\/code> addition provides a structured way to communicate that to Google. The new properties are optional, and no existing implementations will break.<\/p> digitalSourceType<\/code> data in its ranking or display systems. The documentation only describes it as a way to indicate content origin.<\/p> Looking Ahead<\/h2>