AI-Ready Schema Generator
Generate copy-paste JSON-LD (FAQ, Organization, Local Business, How-To, Article) tuned for AI answer extraction. Free, no API key.
The Schema Markup Generator that tells you which types are already dead
Pick a page type and get back valid, copyable JSON-LD in seconds — Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, Product, and more. We mark which fields Google actually requires versus the ones that are only recommended, and we won't hand you FAQPage or HowTo markup without telling you both are retired from Google Search.
Built and reviewed by Sayed Hasan, founder of SEOs Hut · Updated 28 September 2026 · Free, no signup
Structured data / schema for AI citations: real lever or overrated?
Overrated as a direct lever, based on the evidence so far. Google states structured data doesn't affect web ranking, and its AI optimisation guide files schema under what you don't need to do for generative search. The one documented exception is Bing, which says structured data 'may support clearer grounding' for Copilot — hedged, not guaranteed, and the only platform to have published anything on this at all.
What Google actually says about schema and ranking
“Structured data won't make your site rank better. It's used for displaying the search features listed in developers.google.com/search/docs/… Use it if your pages map to & are appropriate for any of those features.”
<b>John Mueller, Google, 13 April 2025</b> — Search Engine Roundtable
Danny Sullivan said the same thing back in January 2020: "structured data like this has no impact on ranking in web search." Google's own structured data policies page still puts it in writing today: using structured data enables a feature to be present, it does not guarantee that it will be present, and a manual action against your structured data affects rich result eligibility, not your ranking. Three sources, six years apart, saying the same thing is not a coincidence — it's the one point in this whole topic Google has never wavered on.
Ten schema types, and what's actually still alive
Google currently documents 25 structured data features in its gallery. FAQ, HowTo, and the sitelinks search box are not among them, no matter what your last tutorial told you. Seven of ten competitor generators we checked still produce FAQPage on request, and four still produce HowTo — neither will earn you anything in Google Search today.
| Schema type | Google rich result | Required properties | Bing grounding | Other AI consumer (published) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organization | Live in gallery | None required30 recommended incl. sameAs, logo, legalName | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| LocalBusiness | Live in gallery | address, name | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| Article | Live in gallery | None requiredrecommended: author, headline, image, dateModified | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| Product (snippet) | Live in gallery | name + one of review / aggregateRating / offers | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| BreadcrumbList | Live in gallerydesktop only | itemListElement (item, name, position) | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| Event | Live in gallery | location, location.address, name, startDate | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| Review snippet | Live in gallery | author, itemReviewed, itemReviewed.name, reviewRating.ratingValue | "May support clearer grounding" | None published |
| FAQPage | DeadRestricted Aug 2023, removed 7 May 2026, docs deleted 15 Jun 2026 | N/A — feature retired | Not addressed | None published |
| HowTo | Dead since 13 Sep 2023docs removed same month | N/A — feature retired | Not addressed | None published |
| WebSite + SearchAction (sitelinks box) | Removed Nov 2024nositelinkssearchbox tag archived | N/A — feature retired | Not addressed | None published |
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
"Other AI consumer" means a platform that has published, in writing, that it uses structured data for anything. Bing has (Webmaster Guidelines §14, hedged to "may"). OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and schema.org itself have published nothing on the subject either way.
One @graph, four types, wired together
This is what combining blocks actually looks like — shared @id values instead of four disconnected script tags.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@graph": [
{
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "https://example.com/#organization",
"name": "Acme Roofing Ltd",
"url": "https://example.com/",
"logo": "https://example.com/logo.png",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/acmeroofing",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/acmeroofing"
]
},
{
"@type": "LocalBusiness",
"@id": "https://example.com/#localbusiness",
"name": "Acme Roofing Ltd",
"image": "https://example.com/storefront.jpg",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "14 Elm Street",
"addressLocality": "Leeds",
"postalCode": "LS1 4AB",
"addressCountry": "GB"
},
"telephone": "+44-113-000-0000",
"priceRange": "$$",
"parentOrganization": { "@id": "https://example.com/#organization" }
},
{
"@type": "BreadcrumbList",
"@id": "https://example.com/roofing-repairs#breadcrumb",
"itemListElement": [
{ "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://example.com/" },
{ "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Services", "item": "https://example.com/services" },
{ "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Roofing Repairs", "item": "https://example.com/roofing-repairs" }
]
},
{
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "https://example.com/roofing-repairs#webpage",
"url": "https://example.com/roofing-repairs",
"name": "Roofing Repairs | Acme Roofing Ltd",
"about": { "@id": "https://example.com/#localbusiness" },
"breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://example.com/roofing-repairs#breadcrumb" }
}
]
}Note what's absent: no FAQPage, no HowTo. Both would validate as syntax and earn nothing as a rich result.
What kind of page is this, actually?
The generator will build any of these. Whether it's worth building is a separate question, answered here.
What is this page fundamentally about?
Are you about to add FAQPage or HowTo because a template still offers them?
What Google actually documents, in three figures
Bing published something. Nobody else has.
“Structured data may support clearer grounding but does not guarantee visibility or grounding traffic. Markup must accurately reflect visible content.”
<b>Bing Webmaster Guidelines, §14</b> — Bing Webmaster Guidelines
Read the hedge carefully: "may support," not "is used for" or "determines." This is still the only sentence in this entire research area written by a platform describing its own product, rather than inferred by an outside test. Its scope is also explicit — Bing search experiences, Copilot, and grounding API results — not the wider AI ecosystem. That second line, "markup must accurately reflect visible content," is worth reading as a warning as much as a feature: mismatched or inflated schema is the failure mode Bing is naming, not a reason to add more of it.
Four things every other schema page still gets wrong
None of these is exotic. All four showed up repeatedly in the pages currently ranking for this term.
Still generating FAQPage because a tutorial says to
What happens: Most generators we checked still ship it by default. The rich result died in stages: restricted August 2023, fully gone 7 May 2026, documentation deleted 15 June 2026.
Do this instead: Drop it from new pages. If it's already live somewhere, it's inert, not harmful — stop treating it as an active task.
Linking Google's retired Structured Data Testing Tool
What happens: A majority of the pages we reviewed still send readers to a tool Google has already retired.
Do this instead: Use the Rich Results Test and validator.schema.org — the two tools Google actually maintains today.
Quoting "completeness is one of the most important ranking signals"
What happens: This line is real, but it's from Google's Enriched search results documentation, about position inside a carousel — not about organic web ranking. It's the single most misquoted line in Google's structured data docs.
Do this instead: If you want a ranking claim, cite Mueller or Danny Sullivan instead: both stated plainly that structured data like this has no impact on ranking in web search.
Claiming Bing "confirmed its LLMs use schema"
What happens: There's no written primary source that says this. What Bing has actually published is narrower — grounding "may" benefit, not a confirmed usage claim — and it doesn't extend to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Perplexity, none of which have published anything on the subject.
Do this instead: Cite the Webmaster Guidelines line directly, and be honest that Bing is the only platform that has published anything on this at all.
Does schema get you cited by AI engines? The evidence says no, so far
Three independent attempts to measure this converge on the same answer, using three different methods.
Ahrefs ran the cleanest version: a matched difference-in-differences study across 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD, against roughly 4,000 matched pages that didn't. Google AI Overviews citations moved -4.6% — a real, negative, statistically significant effect. AI Mode moved +2.4% and ChatGPT +2.2%, both statistically indistinguishable from zero. Their own caveat matters: every sampled page already had over 100 AI Overview citations before the test, so this measures incremental lift on pages already being cited, not whether schema helps a page get noticed in the first place.
A separate cross-sectional study of 1,006 pages and 730 citations found schema presence had no significant effect (p=.296); the dominant predictor of getting cited was plain Google organic rank. It isn't peer-reviewed and the author runs a GEO agency, so treat it as a data point, not a verdict.
The most direct test came from searchVIU: they put a price in JSON-LD only, with nothing matching in the visible page text, then asked five engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Mode — to find it. Zero did. All five found the same price when it also appeared in visible Microdata or RDFa. That's the most literal evidence available: these engines are reading rendered text, not parsing your markup.
None of this means schema is worthless — it means the value sits elsewhere. It still creates eligibility for rich results, and once you've asserted an identity with an Organization block, the Entity & Knowledge Panel Checker tells you whether Google actually resolved it. If the page itself needs to be more quotable in the first place, that's a separate job, covered by the AEO Readiness Checker.
The practical takeaway for a small business is unglamorous: generate the markup because it costs minutes and keeps you eligible for rich results, not because a blog post promised it would get you quoted by an AI engine. If your organic ranking is the thing actually driving citations, as Fischman's data suggests, then the schema on the page is doing far less work than the content and the ranking underneath it.
Schema is not a substitute for the basics
None of this matters if the page carrying the markup can't be crawled or indexed in the first place — run a SEO Audit before reaching for a schema generator. And whatever LocalBusiness fields you fill in, they need to match your Google Business Profile and every other listing exactly, not approximately: check that with the NAP Consistency Checker.
Paste it, validate it, then judge the content underneath
Generated markup is only ever a wrapper around what's already on the page. Once it validates, the higher-leverage question is whether the content inside is any good to begin with — that's what the AI Content Scorer checks.
AI-Ready Schema Generator FAQ
FAQ schema is officially removed from Google Search Console — should I remove it from my website or leave it for LLMs?
Structured data / schema for AI citations: real lever or overrated?
How do you combine several JSON-LD markups?
Do I need JSON-LD on all pages or just the home page?
Has schema pro become useless if you use rank math or yoast?
Is FAQ schema still relevant?
Primary sources used on this page
- Google Search Gallery — the 25 structured data features currently documented — developers.google.com
- Google Search Central changelog — FAQ, HowTo and sitelinks searchbox removal dates — developers.google.com
- Google structured data type reference (Organization, LocalBusiness, Article, Product, BreadcrumbList, Event, Review) — required vs recommended properties — developers.google.com
- Google structured data policies — using structured data enables eligibility, doesn't guarantee display, doesn't affect ranking — developers.google.com
- Search Engine Roundtable — John Mueller: structured data won't make your site rank better (13 April 2025) — www.seroundtable.com
- Google Search Central: AI optimisation guide — schema filed under "what you don't need to do" — developers.google.com
- Bing Webmaster Guidelines §14 — structured data "may support clearer grounding" — www.bing.com
- Ahrefs — matched study of schema and AI citations (11 May 2026) — ahrefs.com
Validate it, then check what it's resting on
Generating the markup is the easy five minutes. These check whether it's live, whether it's correct, and whether the facts inside it agree everywhere else.
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