Google Unpacks Some Info on Why They Might Show Less FAQ Rich Results

In a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered a question about FAQ rich results showing up less in the search results (SERPs). Mueller explained why Google might show less FAQ rich results in the SERPs.

With regards to FAQ markup in general, one of the things that I’ve noticed people talking about online is that we’re showing fewer of these in the search results.

And that’s something from my point of view, that’s kind of natural development, where we try to find the right balance between showing these everywhere and showing these for pages where it kind of makes more sense.

And that’s something that generally doesn’t have any kind of effect from the markup that you have on the pages themselves.

It’s really more that suddenly everyone has added FAQ markup to their pages and we can’t show every search result with FAQ markup.