FAQ Schema Generator

Add your Q&A pairs and get a ready-to-paste FAQPage script tag. Flags empty fields, duplicate questions, thin answers, and strips any HTML tag Google does not allow inside a FAQPage answer — before you find out the hard way.

Valid FAQPage JSON-LD

Checked against Google's FAQPage rules

Strips disallowed HTML automatically

Duplicate and thin-answer detection

Ready-to-paste <script> tag

How to generate FAQPage schema

Add your questions and answers

Write each question the way someone would actually search or ask it, and answer it directly in the first sentence.

Fix anything flagged

The tool checks each pair as you type: empty fields, duplicate questions, answers that are too thin, and HTML tags Google strips from FAQPage anyway.

Copy the script tag

Copy the generated <script type="application/ld+json"> block exactly as shown.

Paste it on the matching page

Place it in the <head> or <body> of the page whose visible content actually contains these questions and answers — schema must describe content that is really on the page.

What FAQPage schema is for

FAQPage is a schema.org type that marks up a list of questions and their answers in a structure search engines and AI assistants can parse directly, instead of having to infer it from an <h3> followed by a paragraph. It is one of the schema types Google has repeatedly confirmed it actively uses, and it is one of the types most consistently cited as a factor in how confidently an AI answer engine can quote a page.

It only makes sense on a page that already contains the same questions and answers, visible to a human reader. Schema describes content; it does not create content. Marking up FAQs that are not actually on the page is a policy violation, not a shortcut.

Google's allowed-HTML rule, and why this tool enforces it

Google's FAQPage documentation specifies a small, closed set of HTML tags it will render inside an answer: <a>, <p>, <strong>, <b>, <em>, <i>, <ol>, <ul>, <li> and <br>. Anything outside that list — a stray <div>, a <span> carrying a CSS class, a heading tag — gets silently discarded by Google's parser, not rejected outright.

That silence is the trap: your schema still validates, still shows no error in most checkers, and quietly renders worse than you wrote it. This tool strips disallowed tags at generation time and tells you exactly which ones it removed, so you find out before publishing instead of never.

One question, one direct answer

The pattern that tends to get quoted — by Google's own FAQ rich result in the past, and by AI answer engines now — is a question phrased the way a person would actually type or say it, followed by an answer that states the point in its first sentence. "It depends, but generally speaking..." is the shape of answer that gets skipped over.

Two to six FAQs per page is a reasonable range. A handful of genuinely distinct questions, each answered directly, does more than twenty near-duplicates padding out a "content depth" checklist.

What this tool does not do

It does not check whether the questions and answers you enter actually appear as visible text on your page — that verification is yours to make, and it is the one Google enforcement action actually targets: FAQPage markup that does not match the page's real content.

It also generates FAQPage only. Organization, Article and Product schema follow different rules and are not what this tool is for — use it specifically for a Q&A section.

Frequently asked questions

Does FAQ schema still get a rich result in Google Search?

Google has scaled back which sites qualify for the FAQ rich snippet in search results, restricting it mostly to well-established government and health sites. Most publishers should generate FAQPage schema for what it still reliably does — giving search engines and AI assistants a clean, structured signal of your Q&A content — rather than expecting a search-result snippet.

Can I use FAQ schema on any page?

Only on a page where the same questions and answers are genuinely visible to a reader. Google's structured data guidelines are explicit that schema must reflect real page content — adding FAQPage markup for questions that are not actually answered on the page is a misuse of the format, not a shortcut past writing them.

Which HTML tags can I use inside an answer?

Google's FAQPage documentation allows <a>, <p>, <strong>, <b>, <em>, <i>, <ol>, <ul>, <li> and <br>. Anything else — a <div>, a <span>, a heading tag — is silently dropped by Google's parser. This tool strips them automatically and tells you which ones it removed.

How many questions should a FAQPage have?

There is no hard minimum or maximum, but two to six genuinely distinct questions, each answered directly, tends to serve readers and search engines better than a long list padded with near-duplicates. This tool warns you if you have fewer than two, since FAQPage is meant for multiple Q&As.

Is my content sent anywhere to generate the schema?

No. The JSON-LD is assembled entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you type is transmitted, logged or stored — the generated script tag exists only on your screen until you copy it.

Why does the tool flag my answer as too short?

Very short answers — a few words, or a bare "Yes." — are exactly the pattern targeted by Google's guidance against thin, unhelpful structured data. It is a warning, not a hard error, but a direct answer of at least a full sentence is both better schema and better content for an actual reader.

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