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44% -- ai search citation increase for Sites implementing structured data plus FAQ blocks (2025)
Websites implementing both structured data and FAQ blocks experienced a 44% increase in AI search citations according to a 2025 BrightEdge study.
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https://quillly.com/blogs/blog-schema-markup-2026 ↗
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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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Sites implementing structured data plus FAQ blocks: 44% ai search citation increase. Source: BrightEdge (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/structured-data-ai-citations-44-brightedge
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/structured-data-ai-citations-44-brightedge" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>44%</strong> -- ai search citation increase for Sites implementing structured data plus FAQ blocks<br><small>Source: BrightEdge (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/structured-data-ai-citations-44-brightedge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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