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February 15, 2026

# Schema Generator: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with schema Generator aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Copy-pasting a schema template without updating every field, leaving placeholder values like 'Your Company Name' live in production.

Mistake 2: Marking up content that isn't on the page at all (schema spam) — this is explicitly against Google's guidelines and risky.

Mistake 3: Forgetting to update schema when the underlying content changes, e.g. a price that goes stale for weeks after a sale ends.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- Use JSON-LD instead of microdata or RDFa — it's Google's preferred format and much easier to maintain since it lives in a single script block, not scattered through your HTML.
- Layer multiple types where they genuinely apply — a recipe page can carry Recipe, Review, and BreadcrumbList schema all at once.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to keyword density, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

Schema Generator catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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