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Google retired FAQ rich results. What to do with your FAQ pages

Google stopped showing FAQ rich results on 7 May 2026. What changed, what didn’t, and what to do with the FAQ sections written for the feature.

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Google stopped showing FAQ rich results on 7 May 2026: the expandable questions that used to sit under a search result. A month later it removed the documentation for the feature. If you added FAQ sections and FAQPage markup to win that space, the space is gone. The questions themselves may still be worth keeping.

What Google changed

Google’s Search Central changelog records two steps. On 8 May 2026 it added a deprecation notice saying the feature would no longer appear in Google Search from 7 May 2026. On 15 June 2026 it removed the documentation, noting that the feature is no longer shown in Google Search results. Google had already limited the feature in 2023 to well-known, authoritative government and health websites.

What didn’t change

FAQPage is still a schema.org type, defined as a web page that presents frequently asked questions. The vocabulary didn’t change. Google’s use of it in search results did.

Google’s guidance for AI Overviews and AI Mode hasn’t changed either. It says there is no special schema.org markup to add to appear in them, and asks that structured data match the visible text on the page.

Google’s general structured data rules still apply to any markup you keep. Don’t mark up content readers can’t see, or misleading content, because either can lead to a manual action.

What to do with your FAQ pages

  1. Keep the questions buyers actually ask. A question about your minimum contract term earns its place. Questions written to fill a rich result don’t.
  2. Move answers to where people need them. A pricing question answered on the pricing page helps a reader at the moment of decision, and puts the fact next to its context for anyone quoting it.
  3. Don’t rush to strip accurate markup. Google hasn’t documented any harm from FAQPage markup that matches the page, and there’s no Google feature to gain from adding it now. Spend the time on the answers.
  4. Fix markup that doesn’t match the page. Questions in the markup that readers can’t see break Google’s guidelines, rich result or not.
  5. Check your templates. If a plugin adds FAQ markup across the site, make sure each page’s markup reflects what is on that page.

The questions were always the useful part. The rich result was a bonus, and it has ended.

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