we are using your plugin WPC Variations Radio Buttons. Your plugin alters the way the products availability is show to google. We get the alert from Google that there is "hasvariation" but no "availability" for the product. In fact, when we activate your plugin, the standard woocommerce meta information concerning "availability" of the product is altered. As a result the product no longer appears as available in Google search results.
However, I'm not good at SEO, so I can't understand these problems. Can you do a more detailed analysis of our demo page so I can find a way to fix it?
All you have to do is simply look at the html code of a product page with variants in the standard theme installed by Woocommerce (Storefront).
If your plugin is NOT activated, you will find the information "in-stock" (if the product is available in at least one variation) for the availability property of schema.org data. This information is used by Google and others to identify a product in Google's search results as an AVAILABLE product.
If your plugin IS activated, this information disappears in the html code of the page. Thus, the product is no longer identified by Google in the search results as an available product. Furthermore, the shop owner receives the alert from Google that an important information linked to the hasVariant data-scheme property is missing (which is "in-stock" or "out-of-stock"). This leads to a deterioration in the ranking of product pages.
Hello,
we are using your plugin WPC Variations Radio Buttons. Your plugin alters the way the products availability is show to google. We get the alert from Google that there is "hasvariation" but no "availability" for the product.
In fact, when we activate your plugin, the standard woocommerce meta information concerning "availability" of the product is altered. As a result the product no longer appears as available in Google search results.
Hi Jörg,
Thanks for informing us of this issue!
However, I'm not good at SEO, so I can't understand these problems. Can you do a more detailed analysis of our demo page so I can find a way to fix it?
Default WooCommerce dropdowns: https://demo.wpclever.net/woovr/product/beanie-with-logo/
ddSlick dropdown: https://demo.wpclever.net/woovr/product/hoodie-ddslick/
Best regards,
Dustin
Hello,
All you have to do is simply look at the html code of a product page with variants in the standard theme installed by Woocommerce (Storefront).
This leads to a deterioration in the ranking of product pages.
I hope this makes the problem clearer for you.
Best regards,
Jörg BUCHMANN
I followed your steps:
1. Don't active our plugin:
2. Active our plugin with the ddSlick layout:
3. Active our plugin with the Grid layout:
I don't see any difference.
Even if I did the check on https://search.google.com/test/rich-results for our demo page https://demo.wpclever.net/woovr/product/hoodie-ddslick/
It also returns the correct product data:
Best regards,
Dustin
Hello,
Or there is an incompatibility with Yoast. We have this plugin also activated.
Try this url https://www.vallonchene.fr/produit/fitzroya-cupressoides/ from our website, and you will see that there is an alert for "hasVariant" and availability (which is missing).
This only happens, when your plugin is activated.
Kind regards,
Jörg