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DiscussionForumPosting

Estimated domains

10K - 100K
schema.org/DiscussionForumPostingGGoogle documentation

Description

A posting to a discussion forum.

Definition from the Schema.org vocabulary (English).

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Google Search requirements

Required and recommended properties per official Google Search Central documentation.

Gdiscussion-forum

Required properties

  • author10M+GRequired

    Person or Organization Information about the author of the post. To help Google best understand authors across various features, we recommend following the author markup best practices. Include as many properties that make sense for the author, using the supported properties from article and profile page structured data as a guide.

  • author10M+G.nameRequired

    Text The name of the author of the post.

  • datePublished10M+GRequired

    DateTime The date and time the post was made in ISO 8601 format.

  • text1M - 10MGRequired

    To represent the content of the post, you must include one of the following properties: text image video This is not required if you are representing a post on another page (with an external url) as in later pages of forums or forum category pages.

Recommended properties

Properties

Properties this type accepts, including inherited ones.

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PropertySchema typeData typeEnumeration

Properties from SocialMediaPosting

1 properties

Properties from Article

8 properties

Properties from CreativeWork

116 properties

Properties from Thing

13 properties

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