diff --git a/src/components/PageHead.astro b/src/components/PageHead.astro
index 0cc5330eea2..fe4d4cff985 100644
--- a/src/components/PageHead.astro
+++ b/src/components/PageHead.astro
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import {
 	classifyContentType,
 	inferContentType,
 	resolveFavicon,
+	resolvePageHeadline,
 	resolvePageTitle,
 	resolveSocialImagePath,
 } from "~/util/page-head";
@@ -110,6 +111,7 @@ const fullTitle = resolvePageTitle({
 	titleSuffix,
 	siteTitle: config.title,
 });
+const structuredHeadline = resolvePageHeadline({ title });
 // Parity: no site-wide fallback — an absent description omits the tags.
 const resolvedDescription = description;
 
@@ -175,7 +177,7 @@ const datePublished = meta?.datePublished
 const jsonLd = buildStructuredData({
 	schemaType: resolvedSchemaType,
 	canonical,
-	fullTitle,
+	headline: structuredHeadline,
 	description: structuredDescription,
 	lang,
 	ogImage,
diff --git a/src/util/__snapshots__/page-head.node.test.ts.snap b/src/util/__snapshots__/page-head.node.test.ts.snap
index 722513fd5e2..d2922ede024 100644
--- a/src/util/__snapshots__/page-head.node.test.ts.snap
+++ b/src/util/__snapshots__/page-head.node.test.ts.snap
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 // Vitest Snapshot v1, https://vitest.dev/guide/snapshot.html
 
-exports[`buildStructuredData > exact key order + full string (locks byte-for-byte parity) 1`] = `"{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/x/#page","headline":"X · Changelog","description":"desc","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/x/","inLanguage":"en","image":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/og.png","dateModified":"2025-02-02","datePublished":"2025-01-01","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cloudflare","description":"One platform for your apps, agents, and workforce. Build, secure, and scale without managing infrastructure","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/","sameAs":["https://github.com/cloudflare","https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudflare","https://x.com/cloudflare"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/logo.svg"},"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"101 Townsend St","addressLocality":"San Francisco","addressRegion":"CA","postalCode":"94107","addressCountry":"US"},"contactPoint":[{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"Customer Support","url":"https://support.cloudflare.com/","availableLanguage":["English"]},{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"Sales","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/contact/","availableLanguage":["English"]}]},"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/#website","name":"Cloudflare Docs","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/"},"keywords":["t1"]}"`;
+exports[`buildStructuredData > exact key order + full string (locks byte-for-byte parity) 1`] = `"{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/x/#page","headline":"X","description":"desc","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/x/","inLanguage":"en","image":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/og.png","dateModified":"2025-02-02","datePublished":"2025-01-01","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cloudflare","description":"One platform for your apps, agents, and workforce. Build, secure, and scale without managing infrastructure","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/","sameAs":["https://github.com/cloudflare","https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudflare","https://x.com/cloudflare"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/logo.svg"},"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"101 Townsend St","addressLocality":"San Francisco","addressRegion":"CA","postalCode":"94107","addressCountry":"US"},"contactPoint":[{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"Customer Support","url":"https://support.cloudflare.com/","availableLanguage":["English"]},{"@type":"ContactPoint","contactType":"Sales","url":"https://www.cloudflare.com/contact/","availableLanguage":["English"]}]},"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/#website","name":"Cloudflare Docs","url":"https://developers.cloudflare.com/"},"keywords":["t1"]}"`;
diff --git a/src/util/page-head.node.test.ts b/src/util/page-head.node.test.ts
index 8effb4d8867..c5236904ca0 100644
--- a/src/util/page-head.node.test.ts
+++ b/src/util/page-head.node.test.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
 	classifyContentType,
 	inferContentType,
 	resolveFavicon,
+	resolvePageHeadline,
 	resolvePageTitle,
 	resolveSocialImagePath,
 } from "./page-head";
@@ -135,10 +136,16 @@ describe("resolvePageTitle", () => {
 		expect(
 			resolvePageTitle({
 				title: "raw",
-				titleOverride: "Custom Head Title",
+				titleOverride: "Custom Head Title | SEO context",
 				siteTitle: "Cloudflare Docs",
 			}),
-		).toBe("Custom Head Title");
+		).toBe("Custom Head Title | SEO context");
+	});
+});
+
+describe("resolvePageHeadline", () => {
+	test("returns the semantic page title", () => {
+		expect(resolvePageHeadline({ title: "Get started" })).toBe("Get started");
 	});
 });
 
@@ -181,7 +188,7 @@ describe("buildStructuredData", () => {
 	const base = {
 		schemaType: "TechArticle" as const,
 		canonical: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/",
-		fullTitle: "Get started · Workers",
+		headline: "Get started",
 		lang: "en",
 		isChangelog: false,
 	};
@@ -245,7 +252,7 @@ describe("buildStructuredData", () => {
 	test("escapes `<` to prevent breaking out of the script tag", () => {
 		const out = buildStructuredData({
 			...base,
-			fullTitle: "a </script> b",
+			headline: "a </script> b",
 		})!;
 		expect(out).not.toContain("</script>");
 		expect(out).toContain("\\u003c/script>");
@@ -255,7 +262,7 @@ describe("buildStructuredData", () => {
 		const out = buildStructuredData({
 			schemaType: "BlogPosting",
 			canonical: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/x/",
-			fullTitle: "X · Changelog",
+			headline: "X",
 			description: "desc",
 			lang: "en",
 			ogImage: "https://developers.cloudflare.com/og.png",
diff --git a/src/util/page-head.ts b/src/util/page-head.ts
index 594df64e021..afc0834ae30 100644
--- a/src/util/page-head.ts
+++ b/src/util/page-head.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ import { formatContentType } from "./content-type";
 
 export type SchemaType = "BlogPosting" | "WebPage" | "TechArticle";
 
+function resolveBaseTitle({
+	title,
+	titleOverride,
+}: {
+	title: string;
+	titleOverride?: string;
+}): string {
+	return titleOverride ? titleOverride.split(" | ")[0] : title;
+}
+
 /** `<title>`: `${base} · ${suffix}` when a suffix applies, else a raw
  *  head.title override or `${title} | ${siteTitle}`. */
 export function resolvePageTitle({
@@ -17,12 +27,21 @@ export function resolvePageTitle({
 	titleSuffix?: string;
 	siteTitle: string;
 }): string {
-	const baseTitle = titleOverride ? titleOverride.split(" | ")[0] : title;
+	const baseTitle = resolveBaseTitle({ title, titleOverride });
 	return titleSuffix
 		? `${baseTitle} · ${titleSuffix}`
 		: (titleOverride ?? `${title} | ${siteTitle}`);
 }
 
+/** JSON-LD headline: the semantic page title, matching the page's visible
+ *  `<h1>`. The `<title>` override is deliberately not an input: SEO overrides
+ *  use inconsistent separators and can carry real page titles on either side
+ *  (e.g. "Get started - CLI"), so their section/product suffixes cannot be
+ *  stripped reliably. */
+export function resolvePageHeadline({ title }: { title: string }): string {
+	return title;
+}
+
 /** Favicon link: first of svg > ico > png that exists, else svg. */
 export function resolveFavicon(exists: (file: string) => boolean): {
 	file: string;
@@ -104,7 +123,7 @@ export function classifyContentType(
 export interface StructuredDataInput {
 	schemaType: SchemaType;
 	canonical: string | null;
-	fullTitle: string;
+	headline: string;
 	description?: string;
 	lang: string;
 	ogImage?: string | null;
@@ -120,7 +139,7 @@ export interface StructuredDataInput {
 export function buildStructuredData({
 	schemaType,
 	canonical,
-	fullTitle,
+	headline,
 	description,
 	lang,
 	ogImage,
@@ -134,7 +153,7 @@ export function buildStructuredData({
 		"@context": "https://schema.org",
 		"@type": schemaType,
 		"@id": `${canonical}#page`,
-		headline: fullTitle,
+		headline,
 		...(description ? { description } : {}),
 		url: canonical,
 		inLanguage: lang,