Schema Markup for AI Engines: The Citation Layer That Most Sites Still Ignore

Originally published on The Searchless Journal Most websites have schema markup. They use JSON-LD to tell Google about articles, products, organizations, and local businesses. They see results in rich snippets, knowledge panels, and structured search results. But when those same sites are invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, the reason is often invisible: the schema they implemented is optimized for Google search, not AI engines. AI engines use structured data differently than Google. T