You Can Get A Google Penalty For Bad Links In FAQ Schema

Sep 22, 2021 - 7:31 am 0 by

Google Faq Schema

A while back an SEO asked John Mueller of Google if "linking to an external site from the FAQ Schema of a discounts/vouchers site?" John responded, "sure." I guess if the link is against Google's webmaster guidelines, sure, you can get a manual action.

Here are those tweets:

It kind of felt like a loaded question, so I do like the way John responded to it.

Just make sure to review the FAQ rich result guidelines and the Google webmaster guidelines.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Succos.

 

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