: Can meta tags replace structured data for Google News articles? I've a news website included in Google News. I've used to use hEntry schema to give my news articles the structured data of articles.

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I've a news website included in Google News. I've used to use hEntry schema to give my news articles the structured data of articles.

Now I want to remove my structured data tags/attributes and rely on the meta tags only.

For example, instead of the structured data for date:

<time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2017-07-20T04:40:19+00:00"></time>


I want to rely on this meta tag:

<meta property="article:published_time" content="2017-07-20T04:40:19+00:00" />


Are they the same for Google bot?

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