Schema.org Breadcrumb Navigation does not work

Question

I want to have navigation on my website, which also appears as navigation information in google search results.

This is not a problem, just working with microdata, as shown here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/185417?hl=en

And check if it works with: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Now everything works fine, but now I noticed that data-vocabulary.org, which is used in the Google microdata example, is deprecated, and schema.org is the new standard.

And the problem is, this schema.org is not working.

I used this answer in Google Webmaster Tools Richsnippets and linter.structured-data.org. Google Richsnippets doesn't understand this and Linter prints:

Errors ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII Structured data The data did not match any templates on file. Submit a request to the mailing list to request support for additional templates. No formats detected. Parser statistics RDF::Microdata::Reader: 8 statements Matched Templates: none 

So the whole schema.org schema is very confusing and doesn't seem to work.

Someone I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

For now, you should not use Schema.org for crackers. Just stay with data-vocabulary.org, although it is deprecated for other types. There have already been several similar discussions. Check out this link where Google’s John Muller says that schema.org is not supported for extended breadcrumbs.

we currently do not support the current schema.org breadcrumb markup for extended snippets, so you will need to use one of the other documented formats. w3.org/2011/webschema/track/issues/10 also has some details about the difference. - John Muller January 30 at 14:59