Creating a blog is a fun way to share what you learn and grow a following through organic traffic.

Providing Schema.org can help improve your search appearance click-throughs rates by helping Google optimise how your site is shown.

Useful Links

• Article | Google Search Central
• Article Schema | Yoast

Marking up an Article

The defineArticle function and SchemaOrgArticle component are provided to create Article Schema whilst handling relations for you.

Note that some fields may already be inferred, see Schema.org Params

useSchemaOrg([
  defineArticle({
    // name and description can usually be inferred
    image: '/photos/16x9/photo.jpg',
    datePublished: new Date(2020, 1, 1),
    dateModified: new Date(2020, 1, 1),
  })
])

Specifying the Article Type

Providing a type of Article can help clarify what kind of content the page is about.

The most common types are: BlogPosting and NewsArticle.

useSchemaOrg([
  defineArticle({
    '@type': 'BlogPosting',
    // ...
  })
])

See the Article Types for the list of available types.

Providing an author

If the author of the article isn't the site identity, then you'll need to config the author or authors.

When defining a Person when an Article is present, it will automatically associate them as the author.

useSchemaOrg([
  defineArticle({
    headline: 'My Article',
    author: [
      {
        name: 'John doe',
        url: 'https://johndoe.com',
      },
      {
        name: 'Jane doe',
        url: 'https://janedoe.com',
      },
    ]
  })
])

Markup Blog Archive Pages

Assuming you have the WebPage and WebSite schema loaded in from a parent layout component, you can augment the WebPage type to better indicate the purpose of the page.

See CollectionPage for more information.

useSchemaOrg([
  defineWebPage({
    '@type': 'CollectionPage'
  }),
])