Google Asks Not to Use Q&A Page Markup On FAQs Pages

December 6, 2018 Estimated reading time: 1 minute

Google announced launching a new type of structured data developed for the question and answer pages - Q&A Page schema. The company has updated its guidelines to prevent website owners from using this schema on their FAQ pages.

The document now states that the QAPage markup shouldn’t be used for FAQ web pages or other pages that list a number of questions at once. QAPage markup is developed for web pages focused on a single question with multiple answers.

This is confirmed by John Mueller from Google, who wrote this tweet:

John Mueller from Google about QAPage markup

Google Asks Not to Use Q&A Page Markup On FAQs Pages
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