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- title = "Structured Data"
- description = "Give search engines rich info about site structure."
- categories = ["search"]
- tags = ["metadata", "semantics", "robots", "SEO"]
- features = ["related content"]
- [[copyright]]
- owner = "Josh Habdas"
- date = "2019"
- license = "agpl-3.0-or-later"
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- After Dark generates structured metadata using {{< external "https://schema.org" />}} specifications for [Custom Homepage](../custom-homepage), [Related Content](../related-content/), [Featured Posts](../featured-posts), [Section Menu](../section-menu), [Image Galleries](/module/hall-of-mirrors) and adapts data automatically using author-defined [Post Bylines](../post-bylines) as shown here:
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- Schema Property | Frontmatter Value
- --------------- | -----------------
- author? | `author`
- datePublished | `publishdate` or `date`
- articleSection | `categories`
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- [Post Images]({{< relref "post-images" >}}) use {{< external "https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-resources/#page-resources-metadata" "Page Resources Metadata" />}} to add image captions:
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- Schema Property | Header Image Resource Metadata
- --------------- | ----------------
- caption? | `creator` [`sameas` domain] or `caption`
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- Consider adding structured data when creating [Custom Layouts](../custom-layouts) for improved page semantics and better SEO.
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- Learn more about structured data using the following resources:
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- - {{< external href="https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/" text="HTML Microdata on W3C" />}}
- - {{< external href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Microdata" text="Microdata on MDN" />}}
- - {{< external href="https://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data" text="Schema Structured Data on Moz" />}}
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- Use [Webmaster Tools](../webmaster-tools/) to validate structured data. This can be done from a development machine using [Ephemeral Hosting](../ephemeral-hosting/).
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