SEO - or Search Engine Optimisation - is a vital part of your online marketing strategy. Search Engines such as Google and Bing rank websites for search queries. SEO is all about making your web pages appear as high as possible in the organic search rankings.

The FAQPage structured data indicates that the page is considered to have a section with Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) and answers to those questions.

How Can I Get FAQ Schema Results in Google?

Google has started showing pages with FAQ structured data markup (Microdata or JSON-LD) with a rich result in SERPs (search engine result pages) and also reads out your answer on assistant powered devices(limited to Android phones for now) with Markup Action for the Google Assistant.

How do I know if SEO is working?

Simple, your bottom line should improve! Your SEO expert should be providing you with detailed reports including ongoing progress up the rankings of selected keywords. You should notice more traffic to your website.

FAQ Schema on your Website - Can this help your SEO? - CGain Web Design Blackpool

Schema code on website pages is a much-overlooked aspect of best-practice SEO – or Search Engine Optimisation. SEO helps your website to be seen nearer the top of Google and Bing searches for relevant search keyphrases.

Google & Bing advise the use of Schema code so that their algorithms can correctly and more easily process the data from each page on your website. Specific Schema code exists for Local Businesses, Hotels, Restaurants, Tourist Attractions, News Articles, Reviews, Job Listings, Events, Movies, Recipes, Books, Music, FAQ’s and many more.

FAQ Schema – Not Just For Nerds!

The new FAQ Schema is really interesting to nerds like us, as it details Frequently Asked Questions on your website in the correct format for search engines.

You may have noticed when doing a search on Google that questions and answers appear in a box above the search results, entitled ‘People also Ask’. Each of these link to a specific website. How good would it be if your website was one of these? The best way to be included in this ‘rich snippet’ is to properly set up FAQ Schema on your website.

How do you set up FAQ Schema?

If you’re doing it yourself you’ll need to read the FAQ Schema Guidelines and then implement the correct code on your website’s pages. Or, you can pay your web developer to do it. A typical rate for this work will be around £250-500

Free For Our Monthly SEO Package Clients

If you are already signed up with us for ongoing monthly SEO work on your website, the FAQ Schema will be added over the next few weeks.

Discounts For Our Hosting Customers

Our Hosting Clients can have FAQ Schema added to their website for just £50. If you edit your own site, we’ll also provide training to allow you to add it to your new pages and posts.