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Structured data uses a type that no longer produces a rich result

InfoConfirmedseo.structured-data.retired-type

What this check looks for

The page marks up ‹types›, which Google no longer shows as an enhanced result. The markup is still valid and harmless — it just no longer earns anything in search.

Why it matters

Nothing breaks. What this tells you is that effort spent maintaining this markup for search results is no longer buying anything, which is worth knowing before you spend more of it.

What it costs your score

This check never deducts. It reports a fact — or reports that something could not be verified — and is shown on the report without moving the score.

Severity
info
Default confidence
confirmed
Status when triggered
info
Deduction
0 points
Family cap
none
Category
SEO
Module
Seo audit
Fix owned by
user
In the ruleset since
2026.09

How the whole score is calculated

Technical detail

‹detail›

**This is a dated snapshot, and is labelled as one.** It reflects Google's search gallery as of September 2026, recorded in docs/research/seo-landscape.md §4. Google withdraws and occasionally reinstates result types; nothing here is a property of the schema.org vocabulary, which is unchanged and still valid.

There is no penalty for keeping the markup. Other consumers read schema.org vocabulary — other search engines, and increasingly the models behind AI answers — so a decision to remove it should be about maintenance cost rather than about search.

For an FAQ specifically, the visible content is worth more than the markup was. A question-and-answer section in plain HTML is readable by everything, is used for featured snippets and AI answers, and needs no maintenance when a result format changes again.

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