Indexing of individual FAQs

  • Resolved manufuzz

    (@manufuzz)


    4 years ago

    Hi,

    Just wondering if it’s possible to have the FAQs appear in Google searches as part of the FAQ page, not as its individual page? Ideally, I would like my FAQs to appear as featured snippets with the answer visible and lead people to the FAQ page to see all FAQs when they click on the link, NOT to the page of the individual FAQ. Is this possible? Is it just a matter of changing each FAQ page to no index?

    Thanks for your help.

    Manu

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  • Plugin Support jaysupport

    (@jaysupport)

    Hi Manu,

    Our plugin does support Google rich text markup. It even uses the new JSON-LD formatting, and it is enabled by default (can be disabbled via Options > Basic & > Disable Microdata). Is that not the case for you? Are you able to share your FAQ page URL so we can see how it appears on Google?

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by jaysupport.
    Thread Starter manufuzz

    (@manufuzz)

    Hi,

    Thanks for your reply. I’m not sure…

    Here is my URL: https://www.pianosightreading.com.au/frequently-asked-questions/

    But on Google, when I search for one of the FAQ, it appears as a single page. For example: https://www.pianosightreading.com.au/ufaqs/how-to-practise-sight-reading-without-a-piano/

    And another problem is that the FAQ page takes a really long time to load.

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by manufuzz.
    Plugin Support jaysupport

    (@jaysupport)

    Thanks for that. I just ran a Google Rich Results Test on that URL and it looks perfect. You can see the results here:

    https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?id=4QqWIUGSezxA97GXE5GCew

    And, if you click on the “preview results” button there, you can see that it’s correctly formatted to display properly in search results.

    Hi Manu,

    I think I have the same problem. Each created FAQ by this plugin makes its own page and gets indexed by google which leads to more bounce rate. Because users click the google result and then face a page within a question and just an answer.

    Have you found any solution for it?

    Ali.

    Plugin Support jaysupport

    (@jaysupport)

    Hi ali,

    The FAQs use a custom post type. That means, just as with regular WordPress posts, every FAQ post that you create will get its own permalink URL. With that in mind, you can look into using your robots.txt file to disallow specific URLs or directories. Alternatively, there are also plugins that allow to directly update your robots file, so you don’t have to do it yourself in the code.

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