You manage a blog with a large FAQ section about customer onboarding. You want to implement structured data to improve visibility in both search and AI-generated answers. What is the recommended first step?

The correct first step is to identify specific pages and applicable schema types, then brief a developer. This ensures a strategic and efficient implementation. You need to determine which content (like FAQs) benefits most from structured data and select the appropriate schema.org types (e.g., FAQPage, HowTo). Then, a developer can accurately implement the code. Waiting for official confirmation from Google is a reactive approach that delays potential benefits. Adding structured data to every page without validation is inefficient and can lead to errors or unnecessary markup. Writing JSON-LD code directly without prior planning or understanding of schema types can result in incorrect implementation, which won't yield the desired search or AI visibility improvements.