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Google's JSON-LD Parser Now Enforces Stricter Standards With Single-Pass HTML Unescaping

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Google's JSON-LD parser now applies only one pass of HTML unescaping, requiring sites to use properly formatted schema markup or risk extraction failures.

SERoundtable reports that Google has tightened its JSON-LD extraction process to align with standard JSON formatting. Rather than auto-correcting double-escaped HTML in structured data, Googlebot now performs a single pass of HTML unescaping—meaning improperly formatted schema markup may no longer be extracted correctly by the search engine.
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