Over a year ago, we first started noticing Google showing featured snippets with one source for the snippet itself while using a second source for the image. Earlier this year, Google began to increase the likelihood of this happening, resulting in some upset webmasters who claimed the featured snippet, only to see a competitor’s thumbnail […]
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Bing Adds Expandable Featured Snippets to “See Full Answer”
Bing has added a new type of featured snippet to their search results, and site owners likely won’t be very happy with this one. Bing will display a usual sized featured snippet, but instead of requiring a clickthrough to the actual publisher’s site for more details or information, Bing is offering a new “see full […]
Google Continues Featured Snippets Without Second Organic Listing
Google is continuing their widespread test of featured snippets that we reported here first on Monday. It has Google showing a featured snippet at the top of the search results as usual, but while previously that result would be shown a second time in the organic search results, Google would drop that second listing entirely. […]
Google Adds Visit History to Featured Snippets
When you do a search in Google that brings up a result that includes a page you have visited previously, Google will often add a notation about your visit history, from the date you visited or the fact you have visited the page many times. Google is now finally bringing that to featured snippets too. […]
Google Updates Feedback Form for Featured Snippets & Autocomplete
Google has updated the feedback forms that users use to submit feedback for both featured snippets and autocomplete. When you view a featured snippet you feel is wrong or inappropriate, there is the usual feedback link, but the updated form has many more options to allow searchers to give more detailed feedback. Here is what […]
Google Rewrites Titles & Adds Headlines for Some Featured Snippets
Sometimes Google has a perfect featured snippet for a query, but the page’s title doesn’t quite match. So Google will create a new title for a featured snippet to reflect the changes. The headline appears at the top of the featured snippet, which is different from the usual featured snippet without a headline. Here is […]
Google Pulling Featured Snippets From Second Page of Search Results
We often hear about Google pulling featured snippets from somewhere in the top ten of the search results, with Google pulling the best example they see for the featured snippet to feature. But Google is now also pulling from page two of the search results to show up in the featured snippet – I have […]
Google Showing Featured Snippets for Site: Searches
Curious what a featured snippet might look like on your site, but you don’t think you have any active ones? Google will now show featured snippets when doing a site:example.com search with other keywords. Here is one example: Here is another: These are coming up for many sites with a variety of keywords. Here is […]
Don’t Make All Content Q&A For Google’s Featured Snippets
At SEJ Summit Santa Monica earlier this year, Maile Ohye from Google was asked about featured snippets. She mentioned that a good example of content seen in featured snippets at the top of the search results was Q&A type of content where the site is providing information and answers about the topic. This isn’t new […]
Featured Snippets Reporting in Search Analytics Pipeline
Many site owners got excited with Google I/O when screenshots from Search Analytics showed featured snippet reporting in Search Console. Richard Gingras showed off the AMP reporting in Search Console which showed the addition of a few other reports, including featured snippets. At Big Digital Adelaide, I did a fireside chat with Gary Illyes from […]