Article Schema
Article schema, which Google calls Article structured data, is code that tells Google a page is a news story, blog post or sports article, along with its headline, author, dates and image. Google says it can help show better titles, images and dates for the article in search results. It uses three Schema.org types: Article, NewsArticle and BlogPosting.
Source: Google Search Central, Article (Article, NewsArticle, BlogPosting) structured data (updated September 8, 2026), checked October 29, 2026
What Article Schema means for your business
Google lists no required fields for this markup. It recommends five: the author, the headline, an image, the date the piece went live and the date it last changed. You add the ones that fit the page. Google also says a page doesn't need the markup to show in Google News features like Top stories, though the markup tells Google more plainly what the piece is.
We'd put it on blog posts, guides and news, and keep it off service pages and the home page, which aren't articles. BlogPosting fits a blog and NewsArticle fits news. The field we'd watch is the last-changed date. We'd have it move only when someone really edits the piece, so the date in search matches what the reader finds.
You'll read that Article markup helps AI tools quote you. Google's guide for site owners on AI Overviews and AI Mode says no special markup is needed to appear there. Our schema post goes through what Google, Microsoft and OpenAI each say about markup and AI answers.
If your guides answer buyers' questions but search shows the wrong date or no author, checking the page and its code together is part of our answer engine work.
Last reviewed October 29, 2026. All terms
How AI answers it today
On October 29, 2026, Google's AI Overview cited SEO and agency blogs, a YouTube video and Schema.org, but not Google's own guide, and said the markup helps AI tools cite you. ChatGPT gave a plain definition with sample code and linked two testing tools.
Our run through ChatGPT and Google's AI Overview, October 29, 2026. A sample, not what every buyer sees.
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