# Google Structured Data -- Invalid Article Schema

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-structured-data-invalid-article-schema/57037
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-structured-data-invalid-article-schema/57037 "2017-02-07T04:55:14Z")
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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-structured-data-invalid-article-schema/57037/18 "2017-03-03T15:20:52Z")

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> [@neil](#):
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> @tolkin reported to me that Google is still showing posts as invalid:

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Seems like they are [still required](https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/szXZhuns014;context-place=forum/webmasters):
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> For now I would just change the schema type as DiscussionForumPosting seems much more correct.

Yes. I just changed the schema type for now.

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