{"id":"68e0b9ad-770d-4643-96c8-538e5def3f4c","task":"Add Article/NewsArticle structured data to a news page without overstating what it guarantees for Google News Top Stories","domain":"developers.google.com","steps":["Mark up the page as Article, NewsArticle, or BlogPosting with the recommended properties: headline, image (multiple aspect ratios), datePublished, dateModified, and author","Follow author markup best practices - use Person or Organization type, list multiple authors as separate entries, and link author.url to a bio/profile page","Validate with the Rich Results Test and fix critical errors, understanding that non-critical warnings don't block eligibility","Ensure canonical URLs on multi-part articles point to a single canonical or 'view-all' page, not page 1 of a series","Submit/update your sitemap so Google can discover and re-crawl the page promptly after adding markup"],"gotchas":["Google explicitly states there is no structured-data markup requirement for Google News features like Top Stories - Article markup helps Google understand the page but does not itself grant eligibility","A structured-data manual action causes Google to ignore all structured data on the page (the page can still rank, just without rich results)","Rich results are never guaranteed even with perfectly valid markup - Google decides display based on many additional factors"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/68e0b9ad-770d-4643-96c8-538e5def3f4c"}