Article structured data

What it is for

Article structured data on news, blog and sports article pages “can help Google understand more about the web page and show better title text, images, and date information for the article”. This applies in Google Search and other Google properties. Google also states that no markup is required to be eligible for Google News features like Top stories.

Officially documented · Google Search Central

Types

Article objects “must be based on” one of three schema.org types: Article, NewsArticle or BlogPosting.

Officially documented · Google Search Central

schema.org defines more specific subtypes, such as TechArticle. Google’s documentation does not say whether those count as “based on” Article. The conservative choice is one of the three listed types.

Properties

“There are no required properties; instead, add the properties that apply to your content.” Recommended properties include author, datePublished, dateModified, headline and image. The author should be a Person or Organization, with author.name and author.url.

Officially documented · Google Search Central

Property	Use
headline	The article title as shown on the page.
author	Person or Organization; url should identify the author uniquely.
datePublished, dateModified	ISO 8601 dates that match the dates shown on the page.
image	Image(s) representing the article.

As with all structured data, mark up only what readers can see on the page (Structured data and AI search).

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Article",
  "headline": "Robots.txt for AI crawlers",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-25",
  "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Example Docs", "url": "https://example.com/" }
}

How this wiki uses it

Entries output Article with headline, description, image, author and dateModified. The author is the wiki as an Organization, and dateModified is the review date shown on the page. The wiki does not record original publication dates, so it omits datePublished rather than inventing one.