Structured Data Ultimate FAQ

Hi @juliekb,

If Google has indexed the page that has the FAQs, then it should definitely show those FAQs as Question/Answers in the search results.

@etoilewebdesign Hi I’m using Ultimate FAQ, and i have the

Disallow: /ufaq/
Disallow: /ufaqs/
Noindex: /ufaq/
Noindex: /ufaqs/

not indexed. The page where i list the FAQs is indexed, however the FAQs are not showing as structured data in a search. Can you help?

Thanks

Hi mnenchev,

If you wanted individual FAQs to show up as search results, you’d have to allow it to index your individual FAQ posts. Right now, it’s just showing the results for one page that has many FAQs on it, so how would it pick which FAQ to show the data for?

Imagine if you sold stuff on your site and you wanted to have your rating stars show in Google search results. It would be the individual product pages, with their one product and rating, that would show as results with stars, not the overall shop page. This is the exact same thing.

Hi,

I don’t like to have individual FAQ pages indexed as they alone are not of interested to the user, instead the page they are listed on is of interest to the user. This is product requirement.

What i’m looking to get is on a search result where the page listing the FAQs appears to have a list of the FAQs showing below the search result like this – https://prnt.sc/oyi21x

I believe this is what the code does as it has the structured data attributes and the google structured data test tool detects them at the(Test Result), however they are not showing on google search. I followed all guide lines to see if there are any violations and everything seems fine so i can’t tell why it doesn’t show as the example from the screenshot.

UPDATE: The google test tool gives me warnings:
Missing a FAQPage markup item on page to which this item should be associated
Missing a QAPage markup item on page to which this item should be associated

Could this be the problem cos of which my FAQs are not listed as such in the search result? Is it possible to update the plugin to include such attribute?

Here are the guidelines for the SD: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/faqpage

Thanks

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by mnenchev.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by mnenchev.

According to the schema documentation: “A QAPage is a WebPage focused on a specific Question and its Answer(s)”

It isn’t applicable for our plugin, as the page lists multiple questions, each with only one answer, not one question with multiple answers.

There is an alternative parent schema that can be used, called “WebPage” (https://schema.org/WebPage), but that is something that we don’t include directly in the FAQ output because there’s a high chance that either your theme is already including that schema or that another plugin that you have activated would be including that schema.

It looks like they do have that pending schema called FAQPage (https://pending.schema.org/FAQPage), which will be more in line with what we’d want to include in our FAQ Output. Once that is released, we can look into implementing it.

In the meantime, if you want to avoid seeing that message in your testing tool, I’d suggest just adding that WebPage markup to your theme page template.

Hi,

I made just a few tweaks to the DisplayFAQs.php to reflect latest schema.org model.

Just added
itemprop=’mainEntity’ to the Question div
and changed itemprop=’acceptedAnswer suggestedAnswer’ to itemprop=’acceptedAnswer’
and also http://schema.org to https://schema.org (which works both ways)

Also, in my wysiwyg editor i wrapped up the FAQs div like
<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/FAQPage">[FAQ_CONTENT_GOES_HERE]</div>

And now the FAQ structured data works just fine on google search.
May i ask you to patch these changes to the plugin?

Thanks

Hi mnenchev,

We’ve noted this as a feature request and will discuss the viability of implementing it in a future update.