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89.7%
89.7% -- share of pages updated within prior year for Most-cited AI search pages (2026)
89.7% of the most-cited pages in a 400,000-page study had been updated within the prior year.
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Value
89.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
400,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
quillly.com
Primary
Tier B
https://quillly.com/blogs/blog-schema-markup-2026 ↗
Source Article
Blog Schema Markup 2026: Article, FAQ & AI Search
On May 7, 2026, Google quietly killed FAQ rich results. Ten days later, most SEO advice about blog schema markup still tells you to add FAQPage schema for the SERP boxes that no longer exist.
Wrong fix. The right one is to keep the FAQPage schema. Pages that use it earn 3.2x more citations in Google…
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