# Article schema

Category: [Structured Data & SERP Features](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/category/structured-data-serp-features/) › [Schema types](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/category/structured-data-serp-features/schema-types/) · Also known as: BlogPosting, NewsArticle

**Article schema** is structured data that describes an article page: its headline, images, dates and author. Google uses it to better understand news, blog and sports articles and to display titles, images and dates in Google Search, Google News and Google Assistant.

## Which types and properties?

Google supports three types: `Article`, `NewsArticle` and `BlogPosting`. No property is mandatory. Google recommends `headline`, `image`, `datePublished`, `dateModified` and `author`, with dates in ISO 8601 format including a time zone. Images should represent the marked-up content, be crawlable and indexable, and preferably be offered in several aspect ratios (16x9, 4x3, 1x1) with at least 50,000 pixels.

Markup is not required for features like Top Stories. Google says that adding `Article` tells it more explicitly what the content is about.

## Example

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BlogPosting",
  "headline": "How we test running shoes",
  "datePublished": "2026-03-01T08:00:00+01:00",
  "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alex Doe" }
}
</script>
```

## At a glance

- **Format:** Structured data using schema.org, docs show JSON-LD and Microdata examples
- **Where:** in the HTML of the page
- **Vocabulary:** Article, NewsArticle, BlogPosting
- **Rich result:** Better title text, images and dates in Google Search and Google News
- **Test with:** Rich Results Test
- **Docs:** [Google: Article structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article)

Last checked: October 8, 2026

## Related terms

- [Schema.org](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/schema-org/index.md)
- [JSON-LD](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/json-ld/index.md)
- [Google News](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/google-news/index.md)
- [Rich results](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/rich-results/index.md)
- [Schema Markup Validator](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/schema-markup-validator/index.md)
- [Structured data](https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/structured-data/index.md)

## Sources

- [Article structured data – Google Search Central](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/article)
- [Article – schema.org](https://schema.org/Article)

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Last updated: October 8, 2026
URL: https://seo-geo-glossary.com/en/glossary/article-schema/