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Invalid News Article Structured Data Pages

All pages with invalid news article structured data markup based on Google Search Developer documentation.

Priority: Medium

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Invalid News Article structured data will not be used by search engines to help index the pages and they will instead rely on algorithms to correctly parse the required information.

How do you fix it​

News Article structured data must include the following required properties to be valid: author, author name, datePublished, headline, image, publisher, publisher.logo, publisher.logo.url and publisher.name.

You can use tools like Rich Results Test to understand which fields are missing or incorrectly configured.

What is the positive impact​

News Article structured data will be used by search engines to help index news articles.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            pageTitle
            url
            foundAtUrl
            canonicalUrl
            noindex
            deeprank
            level
            indexable
            newsarticleSchemaCount
            newsarticleSchemaValid
            newsarticleAuthorSchemaValue
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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