I noticed that Google displays "Top Answer Cards" on the mobile version. Is it possible to add something like this? Votes can be counted from the awarded reputation points.

How to create Question and Answer Schema Markup for Best Answer Answer Cards

Demo:

 

We already provide best answer (or acceptedAnswer) information in the JSON-LD output. It's up to Google whether they actually use it for your site though.

For example, this answered topic: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/461682-forums-card-title/

Thanks for reply.

But could you give me an example of Invision Community forum where Google showed the "Top Answer" Card? At least once? because I haven't found a single one.

Maybe it is not fully implemented correctly?

Edited April 27, 20213 yr by SeNioR-

 

Thanks for reply.

But could you give me an example of Invision Community forum where Google showed the "Top Answer" Card? At least once? because I haven't found a single one.

Maybe it is not fully implemented correctly?

I cannot, I haven't actually seen these display for any site yet.

As I note though, with a lot of the structured data, it's completely upto the search engine what they choose to display. We support it, and the data is there so it will be used if they deem it to be suitable.

 

Thanks for reply.

But could you give me an example of Invision Community forum where Google showed the "Top Answer" Card? At least once? because I haven't found a single one.

Maybe it is not fully implemented correctly?

I don't know what about Google, but Yandex is able to display useful answers from IPS to the main widget.

@IP-Gamers Thanks for reply, but this is not "Top Answer" Card and that's not what this topic is about 👍

Edited April 28, 20213 yr by SeNioR-

I will take a closer look at it when I have more time. Weird that Google doesn't display this card for every IC forum. 

@Stuart SilvesterI took a closer look at it and it looks like Google support only QAPage tag to display answer cards. Google Documentation

I suggest adding a DiscussionForumPosting tag for a forum with "Questions" mode enabled and a QAPage tag for regular topics. This solution is used by Flarum.

Discourse

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Edited May 13, 20213 yr by SeNioR-

Seems to be working now, but not completely. There are warnings. (reported to bug tracker)

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Edited June 1, 20213 yr by SeNioR-

@Stuart Silvester answerCount is a required field and is not output by IPB

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/qapage#answercount

Edited November 8, 20231 yr by darth12

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.

 

This issue has been resolved in the recently released 4.7.15 version. Please update your site if you are still experiencing the issue, and let us know if you see any reoccurrence.

This issue has been resolved in the recently released 4.7.15 version. Please update your site if you are still experiencing the issue, and let us know if you see any reoccurrence.

My site, which is up to date with the latest version, was just hit with this warning by google:

Either "acceptedAnswer" or "suggestedAnswer" should be specified (in "mainEntity")

Either "acceptedAnswer" or "suggestedAnswer" should be specified (in "mainEntity")

for this URL:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/157933-mayonnaise/ 

Any ideas?

 

My site, which is up to date with the latest version, was just hit with this warning by google:

Either "acceptedAnswer" or "suggestedAnswer" should be specified (in "mainEntity")

Either "acceptedAnswer" or "suggestedAnswer" should be specified (in "mainEntity")

for this URL:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/157933-mayonnaise/ 

Any ideas?

It is but as the answer is an embedded link, it is not included:

"mainEntity": {
        "@type": "Question",
        "name": "Mayonnaise",
        "text": "Is Hellman\u2019s Mayo okay for celiacs. I\u2019ve read several different answers. Is there malt vinin Hellman\u2019s Mayo. \u00a0Is it safe\u00a0\n \n",
        "dateCreated": "2023-02-24T21:37:46-0500",
        "author": {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "Jamima"
        },
        "suggestedAnswer": []
    },

 

Thanks...when this happens I'll edit my response to add some text.

@Jim M I have a few pages with this error still saying missing answerCount

https://community.nursa.com/forums/topic/163-app-issues-regarding-location/

https://community.nursa.com/forums/topic/220-getting-scheduled/

https://community.nursa.com/forums/topic/295-something-needs-to-be-done-about-facilities-posting-shifts-when-they-don’t-need-someone-to-work/

https://community.nursa.com/forums/topic/191-let’s-discuss-the-rights-access-and-free-reign-and-all-accessno-restrictions-to-the-app-all-facility’s-have-compared-to-the-severe-punishments-restrictions-to-app-that-clinicians-have/

Any thoughts here?

Checked a few of those and an answerCount is provided there. Do they provide more information or the last time they went to those pages? If they can re-crawl the page, that may be all that is needed here.

The last crawl date was today and those four are still getting issues.

It is worth noting the last one is throwing a 404 error. All of them have an answerCount. Is there a full error that Google is providing?

Yes, I just deleted that one since we got issues with deleted users comments on posts. Okay looks like it is working now, thank you!