FAQ structured data stopped appearing in Google's results on 7 May 2026, and Google removed the documentation for it on 15 June. If you are still adding FAQ markup to pages hoping for that accordion under your listing, the accordion has been gone for three months. We are writing this because we found the same markup on our own homepage while checking.
The list of what still works
Rather than catalogue what has been dropped, it is quicker to say what is left. This comes from Google's own rich results gallery, which is where the supported types are maintained:
| Group | Supported types |
|---|---|
| Content | Article, Breadcrumb, Carousel, Dataset, Video, Image metadata, Speakable |
| Selling | Product, Review snippet, Software app, Subscription and paywalled content, Vacation rental |
| Business | Local business, Organization, Profile page, Event, Job posting, Employer aggregate rating |
| Specialist | Recipe, Movie, Course list, Q&A, Education Q&A, Discussion forum, Math solver |
Two absences from that table used to be the backbone of every SEO checklist ever written: FAQ and HowTo. Neither is there any more.
Watch one distinction that is easy to get wrong. Q&A is still supported and it is not the thing you had. It describes pages where users ask and other users answer, like a forum thread. Questions you wrote and answered yourself are FAQ, not Q&A, and moving the markup across to dodge the deprecation is a misuse Google can see.
Seven of 38 sites still ship it
On 15 August 2026 we fetched the homepage of 38 Iranian sites and looked inside their JSON-LD for FAQPage. Seven still emit it: rgb.ir, bertina.ir, saba.host, server.ir, limoo.host, seokar.com and seoiran.com.
Two of those seven are SEO sites. That is not a jab, it is the opposite: it shows how ordinary this is. Structured data gets configured once in a theme or a plugin and then nobody visits it again, because it never throws an error and never turns red anywhere.
What we did about our own
The first row of that list is ours. The FAQ markup on our homepage comes from a collector function in the theme and predates the change.
We have decided to leave it, and the reasoning is worth stating because it runs against the instinct. Google has nowhere said the markup is harmful or penalised; it has said it will no longer be displayed. Removing it means editing the code of a page that ranks, in exchange for a benefit that does not exist. What we changed instead is the plan: FAQ markup is off the list for every new page.
That distinction matters more than it looks. "Delete it" and "stop spending time on it" are different instructions and only the second one is right.
So should the FAQ section come off the page?
No. The visible section and the hidden markup are two separate things, and only the second one stopped working.
An FAQ block that answers questions people genuinely ask still earns its place: the reader gets the answer without leaving, and the wording of those questions is the wording people actually type. What was lost is a special appearance on the results page, not the value of the content.
When the block itself should be cut
If your FAQ section was built for the markup rather than for the reader, though, this is a good moment to be honest and cut it back. Questions along the lines of "why is SEO important?" that nobody asks, with answers that add nothing, were only ever filling the schema.
A second removal in the same window
Practice problem markup was pulled from the documentation on 6 January 2026, for the same reason: it is no longer shown. Almost nobody used it and almost nobody noticed, but it shows the pattern.
The pattern is that Google keeps simplifying the results page and retires lightly used types one at a time. So instead of implementing every schema type you come across, implement only the ones that describe something genuinely on your page. Markup that disagrees with the visible text is worse than no markup at all.
Questions people ask
Does FAQ markup get me penalised? No. Google stopped displaying it and said nothing about penalties or harm. If it is on your site, treat it as low priority rather than an emergency.
Have stars and ratings gone too? No, Review snippet is still on the supported list. Its rules are strict, though, and rating yourself on your own page is exactly what they exclude.
How do I see what my page emits? Open the page source and search for application/ld+json, or run Google's own rich results test. Anything you find that is not in the table above is now data rather than an appearance.
If you want to know whether your markup matches what is genuinely on your pages, that is part of what we look at in a technical SEO review and fix, and where this sits in the wider SEO order of operations covers how much weight to give it. For pages you write yourself, the on-page checklist to run before publishing is where these decisions belong. And if the site is being built from scratch, the right moment to align schema with real page structure is at the start, which is one of the differences between a site whose structure was designed deliberately and one that accumulated plugins.
Dates and list taken from Google's rich results gallery and the Search Central documentation changelog. The 38-site check was run on 15 August 2026.
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