Double (Redundant) FAQs showing up in Google search results

I’m using multiple shortcodes on

https://raachotrekkers.com/buran-ghati-trek/

this page but the schema is getting displayed correctly on Google search results pages.

As pointed out by structured data tools expert on Google forum

It looks like each question is being added three times. All three by a script with ufaq in its class, so I would talk to them.

This is the problem. The problem persists even when there is a single short code.

Could you provide a screenshot of the Google search results for your “/buran-ghati-trek/” page? I don’t see it on my end. However, when using Bing.com, I do see duplicate FAQ results, so it is not working correctly for that page either, and that is most likely due to multiple FAQ shortcodes on the same page.

If you scroll through the FAQs in the search results on Bing.com, you will see “Where is Buran Ghati?” and “How to reach Buran Ghati?” FAQs twice. Here are screenshots of the beginning and ending of FAQs search results on Bing.com. You’ll notice that there are duplicates: https://ibb.co/SxKKn3V and https://ibb.co/hBJNLPm.

I would strongly suggest that you switch to our [ultimate-faqs include_category=”cat1″] shortcode and see if that makes a difference; you can make a FAQ Category for each page and just associate your FAQs to the Categories. Additional shortcodes and attributes can be found on our documentation page here: https://doc.etoilewebdesign.com/plugins/ultimate-faq/user/blocks-shortcodes/

Here is the screenshot. I have used multiple shortcodes on this page but google is displaying the schema correctly.

https://ibb.co/9WFwPRT

You keep saying the same thing over and over and we keep replying to you with the same explanations. This is not a plugin issue. Just something with the way you’ve implemented it. The argument that it seems to be fine on this page, but not on this other one, has no bearing on your issue. The only thing I can suggest now is to do as I’ve recommended with the shortcode and category, to avoid multiple instances.

I have implemented it the way you asked. Still, there is no change.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by raachotrekkers.

I’m not an SEO expert, but I imagine it takes Google at least a few days, if not weeks, to re-crawl a page and update the search result listing accordingly. You may be able to manually requested a re-crawl of your spiti-valley-tour-package page via the Google Search Console.

Karan: I do see that you now appear to be using only one FAQ shortcode, and now have only the one FAQPage schema on the https://raachotrekkers.com/spiti-valley-tour-package/ page, so, hopefully, you’re on the right track now.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by jaysupport.

It has been a week now. This website gets re-crawled in 2-3 days. Google is not showing any rich schema result for the page (spiti-valley-tour-package) you mentioned.

According to the Rich Results Test of your spiti-valley-tour-package page, the FAQPage schema is valid and set up correctly. Here’s a URL to the result page for your reference: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results/result/r%2Ffaq?id=EmjRHDiVm_aeakNvrEcDeg

The Schema Markup Validator result is also indicating that the FAQPage schema is correct, with no errors or warnings. For your reference: https://validator.schema.org/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fraachotrekkers.com%2Fspiti-valley-tour-package%2F

It could just be that Google is taking some time to validate the quality of the page content before rendering the Rich Results in the search results.

It’s been more than 15 days now. There is an issue. Though I’m not sure where it is coming from.

Bing and Yahoo search are displaying the FAQs just fine in their search results, and they crawled the page yesterday (10/12/2022) as indicated in the header of their cached version.

Bing and Yahoo’s cached version: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=spiti+Valley+Circuit+Tour+2022+Raacho&d=4640961429047595&mkt=en-CA&setlang=en-US&w=Cb8VOcg7eDs-dxfl0ln2xReQvTxMVpJd

Here are screenshots of the Bing and Yahoo search results for your reference:
Bing search result: https://ibb.co/9Nn4KKr
Yahoo search result: https://ibb.co/KGYtChK

If you look at the header of google’s cached version, they last crawled the page on October 8th.

Google’s cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cCVkTJEYNjAJ:https://raachotrekkers.com/spiti-valley-tour-package/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

I’m not sure what the issue is with your Google search result listing, or where it’s stemming from, but, as you can see from the results in the other search engines, and from the numerous Google validator tests we’ve already referenced in the past, all of the structured data is correctly set up and included on your page, and the issue has nothing to do with our plugin.

If you set up a new version of this page, and then see how that one is crawled and listed in the search results, perhaps that would help to verify this for you.

Okay. I’ll create a fresh page and see if the results are different.

Meanwhile I searched for a long-tailed version keyword.

https://ibb.co/MSmJ5Jt

Google is still displaying repeated FAQ schema.

Your source code shows each question is added three times.

Google tries to show the most appropriate answers. One answer would be the most appropriate, but as it is present three times, it takes the first three slots.

Maybe Bing does not select answers in the same way.

The bottom line is your structured data is invalid by repeating each answer. Fixing that will mean Google has good data to work from.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/179237096/duplicated-faqs-showing-up-in-google-search-result-page

Migrating to another plugin seems to be the only solution.