Schema markup is not why you get cited in AI Overviews. Stop pretending it is.

Schema markup is not why you get cited in AI Overviews. Stop pretending it is.

LLMs read your visible text. FAQ schema helps eligibility for old-school rich results, sure — but the citation decision is made on the prose the model actually ingests, not on JSON-LD nobody renders.

Clean, quotable sentences beat a perfect schema graph every single time.

Write one self-contained answer per paragraph and you'll out-cite the schema obsessives. Fight me on this.