There's a pattern I keep seeing. A developer spends real time writing a useful technical post — not SEO fluff, actual useful content — it gets indexed, and then they search for the exact topic it covers. Their competitor's article shows author attribution, a publish date, maybe a thumbnail image. Theirs shows a plain blue link with a meta description. Article Schema is usually part of that gap. Not all of it — domain authority matters too — but structured data is the piece you actually control. What's in this guide: the difference between Article , NewsArticle , and BlogPosting (it's not obvious), image size requirements that most guides get wrong, how author markup connects to E-E-A-T scoring, and working implementations for Next.js, React, and WordPress. What Is Article Schema Markup? Article Schema is a structured data type from schema.org/Article that tells search engines — in machine-readable JSON-LD format — that a page contains editorial content: an article, blog post, news story, or tutorial.…