Article schema

Where to use it

Long-form content that is not a blog post or a news item.

A complete example

Valid as written, with every required property and the recommended ones that carry real information.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Article",
  "headline": "A headline under 110 characters, because Google truncates past that",
  "image": "https://www.seoforsolos.com/opengraph-image",
  "datePublished": "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "A Real Person",
    "url": "https://www.seoforsolos.com/about"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://www.seoforsolos.com/#organization"
  },
  "wordCount": 2400,
  "articleSection": "Playbook",
  "keywords": "structured data, JSON-LD"
}

Properties

The three mistakes this type attracts

1. 01A headline longer than 110 characters, which Google truncates in rich results.
2. 02author as a bare string rather than a Person or Organization node.
3. 03dateModified that changes on every build without the content changing.

Related types

• FAQPage
• HowTo
• QAPage
• Question
• Answer
• SpeakableSpecification

Where this appears in the playbook

• Structured data: what each type is for and which ones earned their place.
• The schema graph: composing types into one graph with stable identifiers.
• One JSON-LD script per page, holding one @graph
• Stable @id anchors that cross-reference rather than duplicate
• Optional fields are omitted, never emitted as empty strings