Remove reliance on Practice Problem structured data following its January 2026 removal from Search Console reporting and the Rich Results Test
domain: developers.google.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Note that Google added a deprecation notice to the Practice Problem structured data documentation ahead of removing the feature from Search
Understand that as of January 2026, Practice Problem support was removed from Search Console's rich-result reporting, the Rich Results Test, and Search-appearance filters
Stop investing new development in Practice Problem markup for the practice-problem carousel feature, since the front-end surface is gone
Leave existing Practice Problem markup in place if it serves other consumers of the schema, since valid structured data doesn't harm a page even without a Search-visible effect
Remove or repurpose any QA pipeline steps that checked Practice Problem rich-result eligibility, since Search Console no longer surfaces errors or performance for that type
Known gotchas
The Search Console API's support for the Practice Problem type continued for a period after the front-end features were removed, so API-based monitoring may have shown data past the point it stopped mattering in Search
This is a full feature retirement, not a temporary experiment pause — don't plan around the carousel returning
Custom validation pipelines keyed to Practice Problem's Rich Results Test eligibility need to be removed or repurposed, since the test no longer evaluates this type
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