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FAQ Schema Validator

FAQPage schema makes your FAQ content eligible for Google rich results — those expandable Q&A blocks at the top of search. Most implementations have subtle errors that disqualify them. Our validator parses your JSON-LD, walks every Question node, and tells you exactly which fields are wrong. 100% browser-based.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

Valid Q&A pairs
1
Average answer
37 words
Validation
Looks good
  • All FAQ entries pass Google's FAQPage requirements
    Found 1 well-formed question/answer pair. Average answer length: 37 words.

Extracted Q&A

What is a canonical tag?
A canonical tag is an HTML element that tells search engines which version of a page is the master version. It looks like <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/page"> in the page's <head> section. It helps prevent duplicate content issues.
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Related glossary terms

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How to use it

1

Paste your page URL

Enter the URL containing FAQPage schema. The tool fetches the HTML and extracts all JSON-LD blocks.

2

Get the validation report

Each FAQPage block is checked: type, acceptedAnswer structure, Q&A pairing, and known Google requirements.

3

Fix the flagged issues

Common issues: missing acceptedAnswer, nested Q without A, wrong @type on Question, multiple FAQPage blocks conflicting with each other.

Frequently Asked
Questions

FAQ schema validation for 2026 Google rich results, AI Overviews, and structured data markup.

Reduced but not dead. Google pulled FAQ rich results from most general search surfaces in 2023, but they still appear for government, health, and education sites, and a number of other verticals. The schema itself is still valid and may influence AI Overview citations. Most major SEO tools still recommend implementing it.

FAQPage is for a single page listing many Q&As (a FAQ doc, a help article). QAPage is for user-generated forum-style Q&A sites. The two are not interchangeable — using the wrong type is a structured data error Google explicitly flags.

Yes, but they should be combined into a single FAQPage entity with multiple mainEntity entries, not multiple top-level FAQPage nodes. Multiple top-level blocks is a frequent validator error.

The validator will tell you it found zero JSON-LD FAQPage blocks. To add it: wrap your existing FAQ content in a <script type='application/ld+json'> block with @type: 'FAQPage' and an array of Question entities under mainEntity.

Yes — the audit runs entirely in your browser. The only network call is to /api/faq-schema-validator/check, which doesn't log URL contents or train any AI. Rate-limited to 30 checks/hour per IP.

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