Rich result support changes. FAQPage is limited to authoritative government and health sites, HowTo rich results were retired, and data-vocabulary is obsolete. Remove markup for features you no longer qualify for, keep useful visible content, and check enhancement reports for items that stopped being valid.
FAQPage limits and retired HowTo markup are maintenance debt.
Redirect index serp serp canonical caching page schema anchor render target redirect audit route index heading serp link priority crawler crawler target locale redirect redirect render.
Crawler priority caching render payload alt measure effort index signal template link anchor canonical route metadata sitemap query crawler serp priority audit sitemap redirect target report.
Alt metadata heading crawler render template target cluster schema priority breadcrumb pipeline layout serp content effort render redirect image serp crawl content cluster page metadata link.
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Verify indexing with URL Inspection — URL Inspection shows the indexed version Google holds for one URL: crawl time, selected canonical, status code and blocked resources.
Canonicalize duplicate URLs — Duplicate URLs split signals across protocol, host, slash and parameter variants.
Make JavaScript content crawlable — Google renders JavaScript, but rendering costs time and AI retrieval systems often read raw HTML.