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What schema.org markup do AI assistants need to cite your company?

At minimum, an Organization entity that names who you are. To be cited for something specific, you also need a Product or Service entity describing what you sell, and ideally FAQPage markup pairing direct questions with direct answers. Without it, an AI summarizing your category has no structured fact to attribute to you specifically — it's working from prose it has to interpret, and a competitor with cleaner markup gets picked instead.

# schema.org — view-source
Organization
Product — not found
FAQPage — not found

A named entity with nothing structured to attribute a recommendation to.

You can check what's published today by viewing your page source and searching for application/ld+json — or by running the URL through Google's Rich Results Test, which parses and lists every schema type it finds.

Two mistakes show up constantly: marking up the navigation menu or a cookie banner instead of the actual content, and a JSON syntax error — one missing comma — that invalidates the entire block silently. Both mean the page reads as if it has no structured data at all, even though someone added it.

Organization, Product/Service and FAQPage cover the checks that matter most for GEO. WebPage with datePublished and dateModified matters too, and so does Person markup for whoever is the named authority behind the content.

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At minimum, an Organization entity that names who you are. To be cited for something specific, you also need a Product or Service entity describing what you sell, and ideally FAQPage markup pairing direct questions with direct answers.

Igor Almeida, Rankavex. Last updated 2026-08-10
https://rankavex.com/checks/schema-org-ai-citation/

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