Archives for November 17, 2015

During Gary Illyes’ keynote at State of Search in Dallas, he talked quite a bit about featured snippets and gave some advice for those who are looking to get into the featured snippets. He said pages should either implicitly or explicitly state the question on the page, then answer the question. While he didn’t go […]

While there are plenty of SEO tricks to try and get featured snippets in the Google search results, Gary Illyes said that he is pushing to get oddicial documentation released on how to get featured snippets. It would be nice to see something official from Google on this.  They haven’t talked much at all about […]

During the State of Search keynote yesterday in Dallas, Texas, Gary Illyes shared a pretty incredible stat – Google knows about 120 trillion URLs, and of those URLs, 60% of them are duplicate. Now keep in mind Illyes does not say these are all indexed and ranking – merely that 60% of the URLs Google […]

Many SEOs have been busy reverse engineering featured snippets to increase their odds of getting them.  But Gary Illyes from Google debunked one of the common rumors that has been floating around recently. During his State of Search keynote Monday in Dallas, Illyes talked quite a bit about featured snippets and one thing he mentioned […]

Good news if you have ever suffered from having incorrect information show up in a Google Knowledge Panel in the search results.  Google wants to make it easier for site owners and individuals to update their knowledge panels and edit them for correct information, according to Gary Illyes during his State of Search keynote Monday. […]