Error : Missing required field "updated"

while you check your webmaster tools may be you will face that error, Error : Missing required field "updated", in the structure data tools,   so here we will show for you how to fix this error and most common errors, with few steps, this errors affect your site in search appearance and crawling.

and may be it will affect the CTR and the improvement for your site. 

I recommended before you start to save backup for your html template, but its okay if you follow the step carefully.

some times webmaster tools take time to update so check your site if its fixed before you start may be the issue is solved, to check us structure data tools  and they didn't update it, if its still appear then do the following :
  

How to fix Error: Missing required field "updated"

1-go to you blogger that  have the error , my blogs -->  template---> edit html ---> expand widget 

   as shown in the image below : 

edit HTML in blogger

2- on edit html on old version of blogger their was expand widget press on it , but new interface their is no          expand widget, so u have to expand the widget manually in all the html , to now how to expand the                widget in new interface click at Expand widget.  

3-after you expand the widget you have to search for the following code : 

   (( Note : to search easily inside the html press ctrl+F )) it will navigate throw what you search fast instead        search line by line. in the search box in html write the line in yellow you find the code easy '' </abbr></a> '' 

find this code may : 

<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>

replace it with this code  :

<a class='updated' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='updated' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>

may be you notice that the differences between the 2 codes in the blue, so u can change that only by replace it by word " updated "  as shown up. 

4-then save template as shown below:

save template in blogger

Note :

1. this code may be repeated several times so you have to replace it all to solve the issue. 
2. while you try to search for the code in the search box, or you wanna replace it by copy paste from here, may be it will not save because comma " or '  so try to rewrite the comma from your keyword it will save, because during copy paste sometimes this comma change in html.  

After you finish you can check your site also on structure data tools to check if its solve because webmaster  tools take time to update.

the next blogs to solve errors : blogid and postid and image_url  and authorship .

and we will teach you how to expand widget in new interface blogger and How to add meta tags in every post. 

please leave a nice comment if this blog help you, and if have any question never hesitate to ask.