How To Fix Google Webmaster Tools Structured Data Hatom Missing: Author Errors of a Blogger/Blogspot Blog?
When you add a Blogger/ Blogspot site in the Google Webmaster Tools It may show a lot of errors in Search Appearance - Structured Data. If your errors are because of hatom (markup: microformats.org) Missing: Author then you can fix them by following the steps bellow:
1. Log in to Blogger.
2. Select your Blog.
3. Go to Template.
4. Click on Edit HTML.
5. Inside the code box press Ctrl+F.
6. Search for span class='post-author vcard'
.
7. You'll Find:
<b:if cond="data:top.showAuthor">
<b:if cond="data:post.authorProfileUrl">
<span class="fn">
<a expr:href="data:post.authorProfileUrl" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="author" title="author profile">
<data:post author="">
</data:post></a>
</span>
<b:else>
<span class="fn"><data:post author=""></data:post></span>
</b:else></b:if>
</b:if>
8. Replace the codes with the following codes:
<span class="post-author vcard" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<b:if cond="data:top.showAuthor">
<b:if cond="data:post.authorProfileUrl">
<span class="fn author">
<a expr:href="data:post.authorProfileUrl" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="author" title="author profile">
<span itemprop="name"><data:post author=""></data:post></span>
</a>
</span>
<b:else>
<span class="fn author"><span itemprop="name"><data:post author=""></data:post></span></span>
</b:else></b:if>
</b:if>
</span>
9. If you can't find the span section then paste the above codes in a section where you want the author name to appear.
10. Click Save Template.
11. Click on a error from Webmaster Tools.
12. From the dialog box click Test Live Data.
13. Done.
