Some time ago an SEO asked John Mueller from Google whether “Link to an external page from the FAQ scheme of a discount / voucher page?” John replied “sure”. I think if the link violates google webmaster guidelines then of course there is some manual action you can take.
Here are these tweets:
Secure
– 🧀 John 🧀 (@JohnMu) May 30, 2020
It kind of felt like a loaded question so I like the way John responded to it.
Just check that out Rich Search Results FAQ Guidelines and the Google Webmaster Guidelines.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Note: This was pre-written and is due to be published today, I am currently offline for succos.