FAQ schema
FAQPage structured data for question-and-answer content. Google stopped showing FAQ rich results in 2026.
What FAQ schema does
FAQ schema is FAQPage structured data, which marks up a list of questions and answers on a page. For years it could produce expandable FAQ rich results under a listing. Google limited those to authoritative government and health sites in 2023. It then announced in May 2026 that the FAQ rich result would no longer appear in Google Search at all, and removed the documentation.
Is it worth adding?
If someone is selling you FAQ markup as a way to take up more space in Google, that no longer works. Question-and-answer content itself is still valuable. People ask questions, and pages that answer them clearly can rank and help visitors, with or without markup.
An example in practice
A conveyancing firm added FAQ markup to every page in 2022, hoping for bigger listings. Now the rich results are gone. The firm keeps the useful FAQs, removes the repetitive ones that appeared on every page and spends its time improving the answers rather than the code.
How to test FAQ schema
Search your page source for "FAQPage". If it's there, the markup does no harm as long as it matches the visible questions. It just won't produce a rich result in Google. Review whether each FAQ section on your site is genuinely useful to readers, because that's what still matters.
Errors to watch for
- Paying for FAQ markup work in the expectation of rich results.
- Adding the same FAQ block to dozens of pages.
- Marking up questions that aren't visible on the page.
- Writing questions nobody asks just to fit in keywords.
Related markup terms
- Schema (structured data): Standardised markup that clarifies entities for search engines.
- JSON-LD: A common format for embedding schema.org structured data.
- People Also Ask: Expandable related questions on many results pages.
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