margelous

Hello,

I’m currently using the RecipeSEO plugin but may consider changing to Easy Recipe, if necessary.

If you check out the blog you will see plenty of recipe posts – here’s one example: cubemarketplace.com/blog/2011/08/12/spicy-mac-stinky-cheese-with-sweet-cherry-tomato-salad

We do not have the Instructions field filled (in the plugin) as we have several photos that are on the page that accompany additional Instructions. Hopefully that is not an issue.

From what I understand, in order for Google to recognize a recipe, only a name and ingredient needs to be filled (even though we filled more)? Is that right? I also tried using the Rich Snippets Testing Tool and it gave me Warnings like: missing “entry-title” missing “updated” and missing hCard “author”. I’m not exactly sure what this all means and if this is relevant. I’m not an expert in this area and I would like your help with figuring out what I need to do to fix all of our effected posts and new posts moving forward.

1) Is this plugin related?
2) Is this properly formatted? Do you need to see under the hood to investigate? (screenshots sent to allison(at)sushiday
3) It seems to be that all the smaller blog sites aren’t really showing up in Google Recipe View. Is this a bigger issue that we have no control of? How can anyone be able to keep up with the larger sites’ recipes?

Thank you,
-Margaret