How to add blogPosting Schema.org to CMS blog pages - Zero Errors (Copy & Paste)

Adding structured data to your news, blog, and sports article page can enhance your appearance in Google Search results.
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Learn About Article Schema Markup | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers

Step 1 - copy-paste

Copy ==> Paste – custom code - Before body/head under blogPost collection page.
https://schema.org/BlogPosting

In this example i use author and category reference fields.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{ 
 "@context": "http://schema.org", 
 "@type": "BlogPosting",
 "headline": "{{Name}}",
 "image": "{{post-primary-image-feild}}", 
 "genre": "{{category-reference-feild}}", 
  "mainEntityOfPage": {
     "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://www.mybaseUrl.uk/post/{{slug-feild}}"
 },
 "publisher": {
  "@type": "Organization",
   "name": "My Company Name",
   "email": "info@gmail.co.uk",
   "address": "My company Address, London, England, EC2M 7EA",
   "logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/some-absolute-url-path.png"
    }
 },
 "url": "/{{slug_feild}}",
 "datePublished": "{{datePublished_feild}}",
 "dateCreated": "{{dateCreated_feild}}",
 "dateModified": "{{dateModified_feild}}",
 "description": "{{description_feild} }}",
   "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "{{reference-feild-person-name}}"
  }
 }
</script>

Step 2 - Bind the data

In the code above where you see{{feidl}} - You should bind with webflow CMS data.

Example for "headline": "{{Name}}":

Step 3 - Change the not dynamic data (address, email, company name…)

Example:
"address": "My Address her",

logo url

"logo": {
      "@type": "ImageObject",
      "url": "https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/some-absolute-url-path.png"
    }

Get logo url like this:

Step 4 - Publish and test


Extra-1 - HTML5
Change the main article div to “article”.

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Extra 2 - Twitter Cards (Copy-Paste before body + Bind feilds)

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="{{title-feild}}" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="{{description-feild}}" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="{{image-feild}}" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@my-twitter-user-name" />

Related:

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I’m definitely bookmarking this @Siton_Systems. This has been on my list for a while :slight_smile:

Hi there - would this work for ArtcleNews schema too? Would you change the code at all if this was the case?

Yes (Both are Article types).

Google: Article objects must be based on one of the following schema.org types: Article , NewsArticle , BlogPosting . (Docs: Learn About Article Schema Markup | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers)

The code above will give you Recommended /valid code related to google guidelines.

Only change this line (Change the type) from:

"@type": "BlogPosting",

To:

"@type": "NewsArticle",

Extra reading (Follow the non-AMP docs):

Hi @Siton_Systems, this post is very helpful. Just one question.

Why in the @id of mainEntityOfPage you use the slug with your base url preceding

but in the url property you are just using the slug field by its own?

Thanks very much

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Nice catch. No difference.

It could be :slight_smile:

"@id": "/post/{{slug-feild}}"

Anyway, it should be (The original code missing /`): (I edit the answer).
"url": "/{{slug_feild}}"

Related:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/99537/absolute-or-relative-local-url-in-schema-org-json-ld

https://support.google.com/webmasters/forum/AAAA2Jdx3sUfhXH3rz63I4/?hl=en&gpf=%23!topic%2Fwebmasters%2FfhXH3rz63I4

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Is it possible to bind CUSTOM fields with webflow CMS data, in the Custom Code section? The reason I ask is because when I click the “+ Add Field” drop down menu, i only see the standard fields as options. I do not see my custom fields

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Hi, thanks for this article. Having a problem still though, followed all the steps and when I run a rich results test it returns an error: specifically this, Bad escape sequence in string from an error here:

“headline”: “{{wf {"path":"name","type":"PlainText"} }}”

I’m a bit confused though because I used the webflow bindings and didn’t even write out this code manually can’t understand what my error is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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This is the exact problem I currently have. Have spent hours trying to solve the Bad escape sequence in string. error. Anyone able to help?

The basic problem is that when you drop in those purple embed fields, Webflow injects HTML encoded content, which is not the same thing as JSON encoding.

In JSON, a backslash character or a double-quote must be escaped, e.g. \\ or \" or using \u... unicode character representations.

My guess is you have a double-quote in one of your name strings, which is tripping up Google’s JSON parser as invalid.

Easy to fix though… a pair of pliers will help you remove that pesky double-quote key.

But seriously, scripted JSON generation may be the only way, and that needs to be tested to make sure Googlebot parses the resulting script-generated JSON+LD smoothly. It should work, right?..

Well, I’ll test this when I have time, but in Webflow our only option is to avoid those chars outright, or use script to JSON encode them. Let me know if you’re keen to help test.

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