I just noticed that Google Search Console is showing that none of my products are valid. All products have recently been flagged with the warning 'Invalid object type for field "brand"'. This is in addition to previous warnings on many products stating 'Missing field "aggregateRating"' and 'Missing field "review"'. Should I be concerned about these warnings? and is there a fix the make the products valid?

Richard

The review and aggregateRating warnings are just because the product hasn't been reviewed yet. The "Brand" warning might be worth taking a look at but it would help if you could post the markup you have for that. But in general the warnings are just warnings and I don't think they affect anything.

Vince

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Hi Vince,

I added a brand function to incproddetail.php

[blue]function pddbrand(){
global $brand,$brandschemaidentifier,$showbrand,$rs;
if((@$brand!='' || $GLOBALS['hascustomlayout'])) print '<div class="detailbrand" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Brand">' . ($showbrand!=''?'<span class="prodbrandlabel detailbrandlabel">' . 'Brand:' . '</span> ':'') . ($GLOBALS['noschemamarkup']?'':'<span itemprop="' . $GLOBALS['brandschemaidentifier'] . '">') . $brand . ($GLOBALS['noschemamarkup']?'':'</span>') . '</div>';
}

elseif($layoutoption=='brand') pddbrand();[/blue]

I then added brand to product detail layout in the includes file:

[blue]$detailpagelayout="navigation,productname,productimage,discounts,productid,sreviews,sku,brand,options,contentregion4,instock,price,discountprice,currency,quantity,checkoutbutton,previousnext,socialmedia,description,catcontentregion,reviews,searchwords";[/blue]

[blue]$brandschemaidentifier="brand:";
$showbrand="none";
$brand="Your Brand";[/blue]

This passed the google validation check and the warnings went away.

You can then choose using css to display:

[green]div.detailbrand{display: inline-block;}[/green]

or not display:

[red]div.detailbrand{display: none;}[/red]

It would be nice if you could tidy this up and include this feature to your standard release.

John

Google's confusion regarding product "Brand" and "Manufacturer" itemprop fields has been discussed before. See the Suggestion Forum post here >>

Gary