I am currently experiencing the strangest issue with the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. He continued to throw warnings for my site, which made no sense, so I pulled out all the structured markup from my page to do some testing:
The following (based on Google examples) work fine: the Google Preview section displays the result using a snippet. See an example here .
So, I took a working example and replaced the dummy parts with my own. I was amazed to find that this did not work! I told the application that it has "Not enough data to create a preview." See an example here .
So (after repeated testing and hitting my head against the wall) I try to use the original (working) fragment in Example 1 and replace one field at a time. I just got to the first field "name", and it broke! What happened to my Google name? See an example here .
I'm really confused by this, what? I noticed that if I change my name to "Row Manni" (the same character length as "Bob Smith" in the example), then it works.
Has anyone experienced something like this? If so, how did you solve it, and if not, what should I do next?
thank
Edit 2011-01-19:
After you changed the use of vcard (in the comments suggestion), I did a few more tests and got exactly the same result. These tests are available here (does not work - uses my full name) and here (work using truncated names).
I can’t understand for life what is wrong here! If their testing tool doesn’t work correctly, then their search finds rich fragments in the same way, and it breaks too? I am leaving microformats on my page for now, but I would still like to continue this for my own interests (and common sense!).
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